Thread: Scuttle Bowls

Originally Posted by ironmaned1987

I used my scuttle today. Loved it! I'll admit that it is more work to boil the water in the tea kettle, so I may not do this every time, but now I know that you can make lather (and it's nice warm lather) from a pluck of shaving soap in the large ceramic scuttles that are sold by SRD. Just make sure that your pluck will fit in the scuttle. Today I used a part of a Trumper pluck from my Bulldog Shaving Bowl (also from SRD). Trumper plucks are quite large so they will not fit whole in my scuttle. I just broke off a piece with a spoon. You can also add shaving creams if you want to experiment. Just have fun and Happy Shaving! Ed

Huh? You put the soap in the scuttle? Tc

Yes! Go look at the ceramic scuttles on SRD website and you can see that you have an top bowl which will accommodate a small pluck of shaving soap . . . .as I said I broke off a piece of the pluck in my Bulldog Shaving Bowl and put it in the scuttle along with some shaving cream from a tube. Works and makes a nice lather! Ed

You all work way too hard.

I was going to make a post of this in the next week, and I still will after I make a video demonstrating the setup. But here, as it may guide you in making the responsible decision:

How to shave prep like a gentleman of science:

I use one of my PID controlled magnetic heat plates, with a scuttle or glassware as double boiler, set the temp, toss a dollop of cream in the bowl with a splash of water on the teflon stir bar. Set the temp and take a shower- come out and the cream is at the exact temperature I desire.
It makes my lather, perfect too I might add as you can see in pic 3, pic 2 is the vortex of the stir bar whipping the shave cream.

Originally Posted by ironmaned1987

Interesting that you are from Ohio. I was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. Graduated from the University of Toledo, 1961. Have a very Happy New Year! Ed

Sorry, as soon as I heard Toledo I couldn't help but think of him

Sounds good jnats! However I don't have a heat plate . . . . . . and it would be just one more thing to store in my already crowded bathroom. Think I will still do it "my way". Thanks for your input, to each their own! Ed

Yea Toledo Rockets!!!!

Load my brush from my Tabac jar, transfer to the DB skuttle, repeat a few times, whip up the lather in the skuttle adding some more water as needed. Do this every day. Maybe it's just me but it seems that putting a cake of soap in a skuttle kind of defeats the purpose of using a skuttle.

Originally Posted by ironmaned1987

Hi all! I am a newbie to this site. I am wondering if anyone uses their scuttle to make lather from shaving soaps? I was told that you should make your lather in a "shaving bowl" and then transfer the lather via your bruI sh to the scuttle to keep the lather warm. However, I don't see any reason to not just make your lather right in the scuttle and eliminate the shaving bowl all together. Please advise. Thank you!

I did, before becoming a cold water shaver.

I microwaved water in a big Pyrex pitcher 4 minutes (or until it reached about 165 degrees F measured with a cooking thermometer), and poured it in the outer bowl. I later replaced the microwaving with an electric kettle and let it heat up while I was in the shower (frankly that made the water too hot). I would lather in the inner bowl and it stayed warm for 20-25 minutes. I used a large scuttle for this.

I have read where other people used the scuttle just to keep the brush warm between passes and lathered elsewhere. Lynn Abrams has said he does this using a small scuttle.

Still others have put hot water in the sink and kept shaving bowl with soap there to keep the lather warm. I saw this being done on a YouTube video presented by Mantic59.

Anything that works for you is the way to go.

Originally Posted by Rachmaninov

Sorry, as soon as I heard Toledo I couldn't help but think of him

Give that man a Section 8!

Originally Posted by apipeguy

Load my brush from my Tabac jar, transfer to the DB skuttle, repeat a few times, whip up the lather in the skuttle adding some more water as needed. Do this every day. Maybe it's just me but it seems that putting a cake of soap in a skuttle kind of defeats the purpose of using a skuttle.

It seems to me that the purpose of using a scuttle is to produce "warm lather" . . . . .my method accomplishes that purpose. How am I defeating "the purpose of using a scuttle"? Please enlighten me as I said in the beginning of this thread, I am a "newbie" to this madness, but I am no "newbie" to life . . . . .I will be 79 this April. Ironman Ed (the reason I use the profile name "Ironmaned1987" is that I completed the Hawaiian Ironman World Championship Triathlon in 1987 at age 50. My time was 15 hours, 38 minutes and 55 seconds. A little slow but persistent and I made it to the finish line!)