Thread: What type of Scuttle Do you perfer

Originally Posted by RobertFontaine

The poll option of
a) too small to lather in
or
b) too big to keep lather warm

Hi Bob,
who said those were the options? Big enough to lather in need not mean too big to keep lather warm.
Greetings
oskar

I have always enjoyed the scuttle I bought from Classic shaving. It is a one piece old style scuttle. It works for me.

The large Moss scuttle does me well.

LIMIT

The GT works well for me. At first I had trouble keeping lather hot, but between passes I now refill the perimeter with fresh hot water. I also make up the lather such that it is just right for the first pass, and then too dry for the second - so I add a touch of hot water to rejuvenate the lather each pass, and that helps keep it hot as well. Might be more work, but it still beats having to clean up the scum mess after using a floating bowl.

Arent scuttles too shallow to keep your brush warm? Its only 1.5 inch at best and thats for the large. I would like something deeper.

I have 2 scuttles now. The large C&E works well, but the spout isn't large enough for my silvertip.
The smaller of the two, an antique store find, has a larger spout and although it doesn't hold as much hot water as the C&E, it does the job quite admirably. So if I decide to use my large silvertip I have to use a small scuttle lol. BTW both are one piece scuttles.

I never use a scuttle. I put the cream on the brush and create the lather while I spread it on my face. While rubbing the brush gently on my face in small circles a lather is created. Simply applying the lather on my face from a scuttle would not soak the whiskers enough for me to have a comfy shave. I guess it is not quite the same but I once used spray can lather that I appled to my face like you would apply lather from a scuttle and had the worst shave ever!

Gots me two scuttles, a 1st generation GT scuttle and a large scuttle made by Oskar. I prefer the large Oskar scuttle, don't know why, I just do...

I have a large scuttle and lather in it. I don't need the suds to stay hot all the time. In fact, having heat loss is an advantage for me since the temperature of the suds sort of follows the temperatures of the water I use on my face before I put the soap on. When I do WTG and XTG, I use hot water and like the warm lather, but with my final ATG, I use cold water. By the time I get to ATG, the lather has cooled a little. So for me there are absolutely no disadvantages to using the large scuttle.

Large Moss scuttle, funny thing about it is that some brush's stay warmer than others? They are all roughly the same size knots and lofts, since hair grade is different per manufacturer I can't really tell if that is different or not.

Kind regards,