Thread: Bowls

I'm more of a face-lather guy, but since I recently switched to hard soaps, I needed a bowl to soak and hold the puck while I loaded the brush. I started with a regular coffee mug, but it was a bit small for the puck I had (Mitchell's Wool Fat). I did manage to jam the puck in anyway, although it did cause it to crack a bit along the edge. The next problem was that the coffee mug did not offer any "traction" on the puck, so when I tried to load my brush, the soap puck would just spin in circles, making the loading process quite inefficient.

So my solution to this was to get a bowl with some sort of spikes in the bottom to hold the puck in place. My dad likes to make wood bowls on his lathe as a hobby, so I mentioned it to him, and he turned this bowl in a couple of hours. The he drove some screws through the bottom and ground the thread off the tip of the screw, so that it would stick out into the bowl. Made the whole thing waterproof with epoxy in the bottom, and a few coats of varnish, and voila, my new soap bowl!

Here are a few pictures, with a well used MWF puck already installed. I forgot to take pictures without the puck to show the screws which hold the puck in place. It works great though, the puck doesn't move at all while I load the brush, and I've been using it for a few weeks. Great success!

(Edit... First time uploading pictures, not sure if this will work...)