Thread: a scutle, is it worth the money

One week waithing, he is on the mail today. Whats a week. 5 days only

My scuttle arrived last Friday. I will say this, making lather is a dream now. I use Bigalow with a few drops of liquid glycerin and I just can't seem to go wrong now with my lather because of the web relief inside.

I'm glad I got to where I could make a good lather without it so I could learn the basic concepts of how to make it, but with this all I do is really swirl it and watch the water content. I'm glad I learned how to lather without it, but now that I have one, I'm very pleased.

I catagorize shaving equipment in two groups - stuff that enhances the shave and stuff that enhances the shaving experience. Scuttles fall in the latter and I love them. I have the extra large Dirty Bird scuttle and it really does the job.

I own a dirty bird and wouldn't think of shaving without it! Just my two cents. lol

I very much liked the warm lather (I face lather, and the small moss scuttle worked perfectly in that regard), but eventually filling it with hot water and rinsing it at the end was 60 seconds that I didn't care for enough to made me use it very rarely (once every several months).
So for me it was certainly not worth it.

There is only one way to find the right answer - try it and see. For me the money was still worth finding out that I didn't care that much for it after all. If you can't afford the price of admission to just finding out, you can make a functionally equivalent thing - put a mug in a larger vessel filled with hot water and that's the same thing. A real scuttle will just look nicer and be easier to use, so you should be able to figure out how much you're valuing that.

I used an old spice mug and a silver candy dish for years... I didn't believe the hype... I finally bought a G5 scuttle from georgetown and i regret not buying into the hype earlier... It makes the shave..

My scuttle arrived this morning, i had a shave planned for today,so i must try him out;-). Its a huge thing. First impression.:i like it, keeps the lather long warm.

I have the G5 from Georgetown and I love it, I used to face lather, then built lather in a mug sitting in a sink filled with hot water which was a pain and made a mess.

Now, I do it as follows:

1) Use an electric teakettle to boil some water
2) Fill the scuttle res with almost boiling water (200 degress ish)
3) Fill the bowl of the scuttle also with almost boiling water and soak brush in it
4) Take shower, do prep etc.
5) Dump bowl of scuttle but leave the res filled
6) Lather

It makes my shaves that much more of a pleasure, and it stays VERY warm through all 3 passes (and then some) This was probably my best purchase (aside from my Dovo 6/8 Carbon ) after my foray into the wet shaving world

Scuttles rule!!

I understand you all love your scuttles, but for me, simply sitting my little green pottery bowl in a sink of hot water works fine. Also, I don't have the room to store such a large vessel in my bathroom. Of course, if I felt a little peckish in the morning and wanted a seafood bouillabaisse after the shave, then these scuttles might just do the trick... :-)

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I understand you all love your scuttles, but for me, simply sitting my little green pottery bowl in a sink of hot water works fine. Also, I don't have the room to store such a large vessel in my bathroom. Of course, if I felt a little peckish in the morning and wanted a seafood bouillabaisse after the shave, then these scuttles might just do the trick... :-)

You don't need no scuttle, you don't know how it is to live in a cold climate. No scuttle for Carl (first snow came today and even a little and late it's not my favorite weather!).