Thread: Georgetown Pottery G5

I received my G5 earlier this week; absolutely gorgeous piece that, in my opinion, is the best looking and most masculine on the market. It's nice having a piece of art that goes well with the other straight razor components on the shaving shelf if I'm going to have a scuttle to begin with.

I used it a couple days filling the void and the bowl with hot tap water (my tap water is very hot in the morning), letting it warm while I strop and get organized, and then dumping it to refill the void with fresh hot tap water. It kept the lather nice and warm for a short time, but it would cool before I was finished. Granted, it still takes me a while to shave, so I'm sure that won't be a problem as I gain experience. Today I filled the void and bowl with hot tap water, let it heat, and then dumped and replaced with boiling water in the void. That kept the lather nice and warm the entire time, although it was too hot and dried out the lather toward the end. Tomorrow I'll use almost boiling water, and that should do the trick.

I've thought about this thread discussion and the thinking that the G5 wall thickness and small water volume makes the bowl cool quicker than other scuttles, but I don't know if I buy that reasoning. A thicker wall on the outside will better insulate the hot water from the cold ambient temperature whereas a thinner wall will allow in the cold; the same applies for the bowl side. A thicker wall might be harder to heat from the start before the ceramic is heated, but it will also radiate heat for a longer time than a thinner wall, and it will make it harder for the ambient temp to penetrate the bowl to the hot water. From what I know about pottery, one of the beauties of ceramics is the ability to insulate and radiate heat, so it seems to me like thicker walls might be a benefit. Think about a coffee cup: if you take 30 minutes to drink your coffee/tea and you like it hot the entire time, would you rather use a thick-walled mug or a china teacup (hypothetically of the same volume)? I do agree that more void volume in the G5 can only help the process, but I wonder if other heating scuttles need to be so astronomically large (and in my opinion cumbersome) and have so much void volume because they lose a lot of heat through the thinner wall thickness and must compensate with water? Just my insight into the discussion.

I just ordered the G20 in ivory. Ive been able to restrain myself every time I saw a G5...but my feeble powers were no match for the G20's charms. Should be arriving in 3-5 days...

I'm jealous. I have only has my G5 for 3 months, so it's much too early to upgrade. SAD is one disease I have yet to catch.

I've had a robert becker for about a year now, so i got this, will give the becker to a friend of mine here who i got into wet shaving and then that will be it for scuttles for me.