Thread: Best Place to get a Scuttle?

Well Clearly You Just need to Install one of those "Instant Hot Water" faucets in your bathroom (it's a miniature hot water heater that keeps about 1liter of 190* water on tap seen them in high end kitchens).

Dirtybird also makes a brush scuttle w/ stackable lather bowl. I got mine this week and am really enjoying it--
we're having a week of temps in the 20s, so nice hot lather helps!

My scuttle was custom made by an associate of mine who owns a ceramic industry. For a guy who never made a scuttle before, it turned out pretty cool. I'll try to post a picture later.

I got my "ATOMIC Scuttle" at Target for $ 8.00. It works great and the heat is adjustable and constant.

MercV12 may have found hot lather Nirvana for 8 bucks. Way to go Merc!!!

What the heck is wrong with the local pottery guilds?

Why are these so hard to find?

How tough is it to throw a bowl on top of a wider mouthed teapot?

I've made a point of strolling into pottery works in each quaint little village I come across and haven't had any luck in impressing these Hairy Potters.

What a crock!

Originally Posted by Creel

How tough is it to throw a bowl on top of a wider mouthed teapot?

Tougher than you probably think. You have to know the measurements, you need to find out the right amount of clay for each part. Things get easier once you make ten or more in a row.
One of the things I hate most is when people come up saying "can you make me a jug like the one I broke recently" without indications regarding size and shape. As a potter, in a situation like that, you can only get it wrong, since the result will always be different from what the client had in mind.
So here is what you should do: Make a real-size drawing of what you want, and make it 15 per cent bigger than real because of the shrinkage.
And take the colours the potter has to offer, for developing a new glaze is definitely more complicated than is commonly thought.
Greetings
oskar

Sarah Bonneyman (sp?) - cost more but it works. I have since heard really good things about the DB scuttles. If I were buying one now, I'd try one of Julie's.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

I got mine from Schwartzweisskeramik.

I inquired there as their scuttles look to be larger than the others. The others look good but perhaps a tad a tad small when using a large brush?

Originally Posted by Cornelius

I inquired there as their scuttles look to be larger than the others. The others look good but perhaps a tad a tad small when using a large brush?

Depends on whether you want to make lather in your scuttle. Many do, and the others just use the scuttle to hold the (lather-containing) brush, either lathering in a separate lathering bowl, or facelathering. I am in the second camp. I tried the first, but found that the lather would tend to dry up.

Now I use a small scuttle and I like it, since the brush is nestled nicely in it, with a larger surface in contact with the walls of the scuttle making for good heat transfer. I can use a Chubby 1 up to a 28mm knot brush with my small moss just fine.