Thread: Georgetown G20

If you took a scuttle and put it in a microwave or oven to heat it the thick walls would keep it warm a very long time. However, you can't do that (or at least they say not to). So you take a scuttle with thick walls and put hot tap water in and the heat is simply used up trying to heat those thick walls which also acts as an insulator and barrier. Thin walls heat much faster while still staying warm a long time. They way I think of it thin walled scuttles are best for tap or even microwaved boiling water while thick walled ones do best with very hot water or some type of pre heating. I can only tell you I have the G-5 and it simply does not last very long. My Oskar scuttle by comparison keeps the lather warm forever with simple tap water. It is a function of water quantity and wall thickness. It will be interesting to see how the new Georgetown holds up. They certainly are lookers.

We need pics!!!!! A new scuttle, and no pictures?

I have the G5 and the process I use is:
With very hot water wet the entire outside, fill base, and bowl, then empty.
Refill base and bowl let stand while I shower.
After shower empty and refill base. I then rap the G5 in a towl to retain heat and make my lather.
The lather remains warm for 3 passes.

I should be receiving my g-20 soon. I got an email letting me know it shipped today!!!!! I will post pics immediatly upon arrival

I will try to get some pics soon, I have barely had time to shave with it let alone take pics. I'm actually kinda thinking I got the one in the picture on the site as it looks very similar... will have to investigate!

Big - I guess my thoughts essentially boil down to a smaller scuttle being somewhat destin to fail in comparism to a larger regardless of wall thickness. By increasing the size you naturally get much higher water area increase than surface area increase, letting you have more heat and less dissipation. In addition to just thickness, surface area should play a role, and thinking even further the type of clay and even type and thickness of glaze would come in to play most likely with a smaller effect though. If there is not enough water in the pot to get a thicker wall hot before the cold air outside dissipates it, you have a loosing battle, if you have enough hot water on the inside to heat a thicker wall it's a win win. Eh who cares, lets just get a blow torch

Well:
I do have a Sara's texan Moss Scuttle and let me tell you it works perfect. It maintain the hot water for a long time and you can put either creams or soaps.

K

We need pics!!!!! No pics no scuttle, so We need pics!!!!!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

If you took a scuttle and put it in a microwave or oven to heat it the thick walls would keep it warm a very long time. However, you can't do that (or at least they say not to). So you take a scuttle with thick walls and put hot tap water in and the heat is simply used up trying to heat those thick walls which also acts as an insulator and barrier. Thin walls heat much faster while still staying warm a long time. They way I think of it thin walled scuttles are best for tap or even microwaved boiling water while thick walled ones do best with very hot water or some type of pre heating. I can only tell you I have the G-5 and it simply does not last very long. My Oskar scuttle by comparison keeps the lather warm forever with simple tap water. It is a function of water quantity and wall thickness. It will be interesting to see how the new Georgetown holds up. They certainly are lookers.

The scuttles we ( Greg n I ) are developing have thinner "inner bowl" walls, we test ours in the microwave and a 45 sec - 1min zap will keep the lather very warm for the duration of the shave ( 3 passes and touch up,s ) my point is ...we incourage microwaving it

Sorry I haven't had time to get good pics, but to prove it does exist

You can totally microwave the Georgetown Pottery scuttle. All the pottery is microwave, oven and dishwasher safe (even the scuttle).