Thread: I just ordered a George Town Pottery scuttle!

I CAN'T WAIT! I just had to share...should be here by the end of next week hopefully. I will post some photos when it arrives.

What color did you get, JoeD got the blue one for Father's Day, He loves it. And so do I

I got the Hamada color. It looks to be mostly black with brown edges, and brown swirls at the bottom. My wife picked the color so it would look nice in our guest bathroom. I didn't care much which color, I just want hot lather.

Congrats! Those are really nice...ive had my eyes on those for some time. :-)

Mac

Originally Posted by Dirt4dinner

I got the Hamada color. It looks to be mostly black with brown edges, and brown swirls at the bottom. My wife picked the color so it would look nice in our guest bathroom. I didn't care much which color, I just want hot lather.

That is a nice color. I got JoeD the blue one because it matches our bathroom

Originally Posted by McWolf1969

Congrats! Those are really nice...ive had my eyes on those for some time. :-)

Mac

Mac they are well worth the investment. Especially for the winter months

I think the GT are the best looking of the custom scuttles. I've actually ordred a Dirty Bird, based on the reviews, but I do like the idea of having a few different scuttles depending on my mood, so I'd be interested of your experiences with the GT4, especially with regards to heat retention. I very much like the look of the Schwarzweisskeramik too, but that is a little more expensive.

Originally Posted by dannywonderful

I think the GT are the best looking of the custom scuttles. I've actually ordred a Dirty Bird, based on the reviews, but I do like the idea of having a few different scuttles depending on my mood, so I'd be interested of your experiences with the GT4, especially with regards to heat retention. I very much like the look of the Schwarzweisskeramik too, but that is a little more expensive.

I've been using my Schwarzweisskeramik for about 7 months now. It's one of the best investments in my personal comfort that I've ever made. It holds about a liter of hot tap water and stays warm for as many passes as I care to do (4-5). Over years of use I doubt that you will notice a small difference in price (if you like it for other reasons).

Originally Posted by Chimensch

I've been using my Schwarzweisskeramik for about 7 months now. It's one of the best investments in my personal comfort that I've ever made. It holds about a liter of hot tap water and stays warm for as many passes as I care to do (4-5). Over years of use I doubt that you will notice a small difference in price (if you like it for other reasons).

Can you tell me how it handles creams? I was a bit confused about the soap holder, which seemed to require you to grate hard soaps into it. I'm not against doing such things, I'm just curious about the benefits of doing this. Being in Europe, the price difference is about £20 or so between the GT4/Dirty Bird and the Schwarzweisskeramilk, so I might well treat myself to the Schwarzweisskeramilk for Christmas.

Also, what size brush do you use? Am I right in thinking that the Schwarzweisskeramilk is better suited to larger brushes?

Originally Posted by dannywonderful

Can you tell me how it handles creams? I was a bit confused about the soap holder, which seemed to require you to grate hard soaps into it. I'm not against doing such things, I'm just curious about the benefits of doing this. Being in Europe, the price difference is about £20 or so between the GT4/Dirty Bird and the Schwarzweisskeramilk, so I might well treat myself to the Schwarzweisskeramilk for Christmas.

Also, what size brush do you use? Am I right in thinking that the Schwarzweisskeramilk is better suited to larger brushes?

You use the bowl of the scuttle for lathering after you have loaded your brush with soap from whatever the soap is in. The scuttle used to come without a soap holder and then he decided to include one but the soap holder doesn't require you to do anything, it's just for soaps that don't have their own bowl, such as a bulk soap like Cella (comes in a 1 kg brick). For example, I have about 10 soaps in my rotation. Some have their own bowl and others I just mill into plastic containers. Theoretically, you could order extra soap holders and lids to hold all your soaps, if you wanted to. So, if I'm using Cella, I use the soap holder, otherwise I just put it aside and load the brush from whatever container the soap is in. The same goes for creams. You load the brush however you do it and then use the bowl to lather in. By the way, my brush is a Kent BLK2, so about average, I think. The size of the brush doesn't matter. The bowl is big enough for the biggest brushes but smaller doesn't make any difference.

For about a month after I got the scuttle, I boiled water in an electric tea kettle but it was way too hot. Now, I fill the scuttle inside and also the bowl with hot tap water before I get in the shower to warm it up. Then, after my shower, I empty all the water and put more hot water just inside. I fill the brush with water and sprinkle a little in the bowl and then add more water to the brush to load it with soap. Then I mix the soapy brush in the bowl to make lather, adding a little extra water, if necessary.

The scuttle keeps the lather warm but also dries it out a little. For this reason, I add more water and mix well before each pass.

I think that about covers it.