Thread: Someone explain 'scuttles' to me please?

HI all,

I'm looking at some scuttles, but I'm not sure what's up with them.

Can someone explain the purpose and usage?? I see strange openings in them that I assume you fill with hot water?? or is it just a place for your brush.??

Anyway, I'm obviously interested in everything str8's and some seem to prefer scuttles over bowls or 'pre' bowled soaps.

If you have an opinion of what I should look at, or who has good scuttles, etc.. please speak up!!

Thanks all!!!

Mike

Mike,

As far as I can tell the purpose of the scuttle is to keep your lather warm during the entire shave. Hot water fills the 'lower' bowl and you create your lather in the top bowl. The scuttles are normally made from materials that have a high thermal mass to retain maximum heat.

Stu

There's the old type and the new type. The old were designed to have hot water in the bottom and the soap on top and you made the lather or loaded the soap on top and the hole in the side gave you access to the water and kept the lather and brush warm. The new types are much larger and keep the brush and lather warm and give you room to build lather right in the scuttle.

You'll see numerous posts for modern day scuttle makers here so read through the reviews to start with.

Its easy, really.

Scuttles = shaving nirvana

My scuttle has single-handedly improved my shaves more than any other shaving related item, you need to invest in one immediately....
KIMFELLA's wife made mine and its dandy

I ordered a scuttle this morning, after hearing how much Birnardo likes his, I had no choice! He is a bad enabler!

I got a black Schwarzweisskeramik XL scuttle. Quite pricey, but said to be super awesome.



Can't wait to try it out.

Originally Posted by Blix

I ordered a scuttle this morning, after hearing how much Birnardo likes his, I had no choice! He is a bad enabler!

I got a black Schwarzweisskeramik XL scuttle. Quite pricey, but said to be super awesome.



Can't wait to try it out.

Geeze, I wouldnt have room on my counter for that thing

I'm sure it will make a great scuttle, if I had one it would probably be confused for a chamber pot though. Str8raz0r (Stu) pretty much answered the OP's question I reckon, so I'm just going to say I haven't used a scuttle as such. I do have one soap that comes in it's own little wooden bowl, but that's more of a shave mug rather than a scuttle and not a very good shave mug at that.
In future I will get a scuttle (or more likely a mug) just to try, but in the mean time I will carry on with cold water shaves and face lathering as it seems to work just fine for me and my principles of simplicity.


Mick

Originally Posted by epd

Geeze, I wouldnt have room on my counter for that thing

Search for the dirty bird custom double scuttle. THAT thing is huge. Its for lathering your entire body, if need be.

Originally Posted by DerekC

Search for the dirty bird custom double scuttle. THAT thing is huge. Its for lathering your entire body, if need be.

That's where you are wrong. I was staring at my double the other day when I discovered that I had been using it wrong. First you build the lather like normal, then extract the remainder from your brush into the bowl. Finally while holding your breath you dip your head into the bowl and rise fully lathered.