Thread: Scuttle suggestions

I have a friend who is going to make a scuttle for me but since I have never owned one. I am looking for any suggestions. I was thinking something that is all one piece like the moss scuttle. Thanks for your help.

If, as I think you are, you are asking for some examples he could use as design samples from their pictures, there are a lot including Dirty Bird, Georgetown Pottery, SRD, many on Etsy.com, etc, etc. Most are one piece, doubled bowled.

Personally, I have found that after a while they all take up space and become superfluous. A cup sitting in a sink of hot water or two small bowls nestled together work fine. Over the last two years, I have transitioned almost exclusively to face lathering, often with cold, cool or lukewarm water after being obsessed with hot lather at first.

Most modern scuttles aren't really for lather production. They are more to keep the lather warm during the shave.

If you are going to have one made for you the critical specification is to have it hold enough water so as to keep the contents warm for you during the entire shave. I've found 16 oz is about the minimum to do that. Some hold much more.

If you face lather you may want to create a smaller inner bowl to keep the brush warm in tighter quarters. If you want to create lather in the scuttle, you will need room to move the brush around and ridges or bumps to put some air in your lather.

Most of the scuttle makers list the dimensions for inner and out bowl.

Moss, SWK, Georgetown to give you some ideas.

I am on a well in Bakersfield. My scuttle holds a lot of water! I let it cool and use the water elsewhere.

Thanks for all the quick replies and advice. I guess I should have specified how I lather. I really like soaps at the moment and have a seperate container to load my brush and then I transfer to another bowl to build the lather a little more. I've tried the face lather when I'm in a hurry but it doesn't ever last as long. My concern and reason for getting a scuttle is to keep the lather warm. It seems to me that it would help with the entire shaving process. Hot towel and then warm lather. Finish with cold towel not cold lather.

If I'm understanding this correctly there is no holy grail scuttle it's personal preference. In your experience have you found a two piece or one piece large scuttles easier to make and keep lather? Handle, no handle, knob anything else?

Thanks again for the help.

I own the three I mentioned above. The G20 from Georgetown is very nice. The Schwarzweisskeramik keeps and makes the best lather and is the best build and design, the moss I had made with a slightly smaller bowl to keep the brush nice and toasty and the Moss is by far the easiest to load with water. They all have handle which is a good thing since they can get slippery if soap gets on the outside.

Which Schwarzweisskeramik do you have. There website shows a lot of different styles. But they all are double walled which is a nice addition. Not sure if my friend can do that.

Originally Posted by JTmke

I own the three I mentioned above. The G20 from Georgetown is very nice. The Schwarzweisskeramik keeps and makes the best lather and is the best build and design, the moss I had made with a slightly smaller bowl to keep the brush nice and toasty and the Moss is by far the easiest to load with water. They all have handle which is a good thing since they can get slippery if soap gets on the outside.

and I have the DirtyBird, with a handle and "spider-web" ridges in the bowl so you can whip up lather if you want to. It does a great job when I use it....I just don't use it that much anymore.

Not sure if that worked. Large scuttle in white