My Shaving Scuttle

Bought this shaving scuttle a few weeks back from a pottery artisan that has branched out into shaving scuttles. Julie Moore's pottery shop is called Dirty Bird and you can find her on the net here-

www.dirtybirdpottery.com/shavinggear.html

 

This particular scuttle, how you use is to fill the outer bowl with very hot water through the spout which will in turn, keep the lather you build in the bowl, hot, or as warm or hot as the water surrounding the bowl is

 

In fact, you do not want to use boiling water as it will (the high temperature) break down your lather. I use my tap water (from the hot faucet) which is 138 degrees f ...yes, I've read this temp with a dial thermometer

 

Typically the way I use it I fill the outside bowl with hot water and also the inside lather bowl with hot water too, to preheat, then I hop in the shower, prep my beard before shaving then when I'm out of the shower ready to shave I dump the water that I used for pre-heating and re-fill the outer bowl only. Then I proceed to build lather in the inner bowl

 

This scuttle keeps my lather very warm from my first shaving pass to the last pass. I like warm lather for my entire shave so this scuttle ranks high on my must have wet shaving gear list

 

In the scuttle (in this pic) you see one of my straight razors, my first Thiers Issard straight razor. Yes, there is oil on the blade. I leave oil on the blade and tang of all of my razors when I'm not using them to shave with. The humidity is high in my Fla. bathroom so I want to protect this carbon steel from rusting. Also pictured in the scuttle's bowl is my boar hair shaving brush. My badger shaving brush is sitting in the stand outside of the scuttle

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