Thread: Looking to assert myself as a potter, so i need your opinion on these three shapes.

Very nice! I thought at first you were using existing scuttle's / bowls as models!!! Then realized these were one's you did...great job!!!

Here is another piece that could also be a shaving item although a bit large

Phrank yeah they are my designs, nothing proven yet. There is also some characteristics I will like to inquire from the ones that have used a scuttle. Here is what I have heard: some scuttles do not retain heat. My solution make the spout hole a bit tighter/smaller, now this has brought up another nuance. That nuance is that the scuttle has to be filled while the spout tilts upwards. I will take a video that I will try to upload and get your opinions.

Another alternative to making the fill hole smaller is to use a plug to stop it up.

Bob

The brush shapes (and mostly white color) are somewhat boring to me.

I like the scuttle designs with the peg handles. I would make the spout mouth larger but the hole that feeds into the reservoir smaller. Also, a wide, somewhat shallow bowl allows using brushes with a shorter handle/loft easier and cleaner. Adding steep (vertical) walls will help keep the lather inside.

Let me know when you start making bowls for sale!

Keep then coming.
@ twisted oak a wider shallower bowl will somewhat negate the heat retention feature.

For heat retention maybe look at a larger water reservoir volume.

Bob

I thought of that before, but wide shallow and large reservoir equals a very large and clunky piece of clay. I do believe that 4" diameter is ideal.

I was just looking at the scuttle I have and the dimensions of the bowl for lathering in is 4 inches in diameter and about 1.5 inches deep. Does me very well for lathering. The outside are roughly 5.5 inches in diameter and 3.25 inches tall. I was assuming we were talking a double walled scuttle with the heating reservoir between the inner and outer walls.

Bob

See even my first one has a 4"diameter and a 2.5"dept for the lathering bowl and the external diameter is about ~5.5". The second and third are about the same diameter but with a dept from 3-3.5". Making then larger means 6" or larger in the exterior and about 5"tall.
Note changing subjects a bit , let's hear if for this brush scuttle.