Shaving Scuttles and Mugs

This is the Mickey Electric Lather Bowl.
I have no financial interest in it. When I retired I was determined at all costs to avoid invoices, statements, journals, ledgers and accountants.
Michal Yoresh of Modi'in Israel, a very talented ceramic artist and potter and I collaborated to develop this. I have been using it for over two years now. It will keep my lather warm as long as I keep it turned on.  Michal named it after me.
There is a not too steep learning curve that I wrote for its users.

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Mickey

I love it, Mickey.  I have a coffee mug warmer and ceramic shave bowl and thought about this but, unfortunately, I have no room in my bathroom to set up something like it.  Sadly, I have a pedestal sink with not much room around the basin.

This is the Mickey Electric Lather Bowl.
I have no financial interest in it. When I retired I was determined at all costs to avoid invoices, statements, journals, ledgers and accountants.
Michal Yoresh of Modi'in Israel, a very talented ceramic artist and potter and I collaborated to develop this. I have been using it for over two years now. It will keep my lather warm as long as I keep it turned on.  Michal named it after me.
There is a not too steep learning curve that I wrote for its users.

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Mickey

Mickey, I love it! You could get a second one for your morning cup of coffee, just keep them straight or you'll be getting soap in your coffee and vice versa

Freddy,

I guess I am very fortunate. For the first time in my life I live alone now, in this old house. The kids flew the coupe years ago.
After 40 years of yucky yellow 3" tiles I felt the need for a change so I designed a renovation.
Working with the contractor it came out just as I had imagined it. I can clean the whole room in under 10 minutes and there is no grout growing mould to worry about.
It is now a bathroom with no bath. It has a walk in shower and the rest of the room is designed for wet/traditional shaving.
I have never designed anything in my life. The only thing the contractor changed was the paint colour.
She was so right. The shaving bowl warmer was in my mind during reconstruction.

Nice! Sounds like my kind of bathroom Mickey Oberman. The lather bowl warmer is an ingenious idea, BTW.

Marko,

Oh! That must be why my coffee has foam on top.

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I recently purchased this Dirty Bird brush scuttle. I've only hastily used it once so far and made a mess of my lather by either using water that was too warm or too much warm water.

What do you guys do, do you fill the outer mug part to just under the bottom of the inner mug and let the heat radiate or as I did , do you fill it up as far as it will go without overflowing when the inner portion that will hold the brush between passes is settled in?

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Hi 1morepasswill , I haven't tried dirtybird's brush scuttle but I'd like to.  I have one of their standard scuttles and its quite nice.  One comment on using water that is too hot - don't!  I thought it would be smart to fill the lower chamber with boiling water and two things happened, one bad and the other one very bad.  The bad thing was that the lather broke and became runny and lousy and the very bad thing was that the heat was too much for the glue on what was a nice eshave silvertip brush and loads of bristles started falling out.  The brush continued to lose bristles from that point on and eventually I gave up on it.  Very bad.
Marko

Yeah my lather evaporated as well so thanks for the tip regarding the glue in the knot. I suppose the next question is how hot should the water be to get the best out of it? Warm enough to uncomfortably leave a finger in it or cooler?

Yeah my lather evaporated as well so thanks for the tip regarding the glue in the knot. I suppose the next question is how hot should the water be to get the best out of it? Warm enough to uncomfortably leave a finger in it or cooler?

What I've been doing is filling the top and bottom chambers with hot tap water and letting it warm while I shower then pouring it out and re-filling the bottom chamber with hot tap water prior to commencement of lathering. I'll soak the brush either in the top of the scuttle or in a separate mug while showering. I haven't had any more issues with catastrophic bristle loss using that procedure. I suppose if your hot water tank is set very high and the water coming out the tap is ridiculously hot you may want to add a bit of cold to cool it down a bit.

I've got experimenting to do. Thanks.