I found a Frankona stoneware mug at an antique store for $10. I think it might have been intended to be a soup bowl? It's wide enough that I don't bang the sides with the brush handle, and I can get my hand in there easily if I'm using a stubby brush. I love it. My lathering got a lot more consistent immediately when I started using it. Only downside is that a brush without a lip on the butt of the handle will slide into the bowl.
The Ideal Shaving Mug?
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This is my idea of a shaving mug. It is where you keep the soap and get some lather started. This is a Seaforth! mug with a PAA Diver Down refill.
I didn't realize anyone thought this was a question. The best shaving mug is, of course, a scuttle.
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I didn't realize anyone thought this was a question. The best shaving mug is, of course, a scuttle.
I have a scuttle. I use it when I want warm lather. I have a larger lathering bowl when I usually want to bowl lather. I prefer the new Fendrihan mug to both of them for normal mug lathering. YMMV
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Yes, I usually use a mug in the traditional way. I have somewhere around 30 of them loaded with different soaps. Most soap pucks will easily fit the Fendrihan mug. Hard milled tallow soaps that don't fit can be grated with a cheese grater and pressed into place. Vege based soaps can be melted in the mug in the microwave for a perfect fit.
I usually lather in the traditional way I learned as a teenager over 60 years ago, lathering in the mug above the soap.
For me a mug would be a loading vessel not a lathering one.
I tend to use a Japanese suribachi to store my soap for the week and as a loading vessel.
But lathering is done on my face or if I want better control in a bowl or scuttle.
Want unbreakable recommend
Captains choice copper bowl
Pereira unbreakable bowl
Paa unbreakable travel scuttle
Do not mind some damage the question will be bowl or where it hits…. A nice granite mortar
I tend to use a Japanese suribachi to store my soap for the week and as a loading vessel.
But lathering is done on my face or if I want better control in a bowl or scuttle.
Want unbreakable recommend
Captains choice copper bowl
Pereira unbreakable bowl
Paa unbreakable travel scuttle
Do not mind some damage the question will be bowl or where it hits…. A nice granite mortar
Each one is a nice mug.
Echoing musicman1951's post, I love my Q-shave scuttle. the dragon stopper is my enhancement.
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That Fendrihan mug is nice. I like the fact that it has a wide taper and is shorter than most. If I didn't already have so many I would buy one. Thanks for pointing it out.
Burma Shave mug.
Nice! Who makes that one?I didn't realize anyone thought this was a question. The best shaving mug is, of course, a scuttle.
Holy Smokes! Beautiful, but I'd be afraid to use it, looks like it belongs in a museum from 13th century China or something, LOL!View attachment 1326850
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Great bowl, cost me a bit but it is beautiful and creates a great bowl of lather.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm in the market for a new mug. The one I have is good for travel but too small for everyday use.
I just ordered that mug along with 200 Personna Platinum DE blades.
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Gentlemen, there is no such thing as an ideal shaving mug, any more than there is an ideal razor or an ideal brand of blade.
Probably the best mug for most folks is one of the vintage Old Spice mugs. Their downsides are they're breakable and they are not microwavable.
Probably the best mug for most folks is one of the vintage Old Spice mugs. Their downsides are they're breakable and they are not microwavable.
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I like Old Spice mugs as long as you are using smaller brushes. The 19mm to 22mm brushes seem to be the sweet spot. I have eight of them in use at the moment and have probably given twenty or so away. Most if not all of them have been microwaved to set a puck of veggie soap firmly within, so I'm not afraid of microwaving them.
Larger brushes need a bigger mug. I can't begin to use an Old Spice mug with one of my 30 mm brushes and probably not with anything 26 mm and above. The mug I opened this thread likes those bigger brushes, although I have even bigger mugs for the biggest brushes.
Big Jim, I had an Old Spice mug explode in the microwave, though to be fair it was an older mug perhaps dating from the early 1950's.
I was softening a puck of soap that was a little small for the diameter of the mug.
I was softening a puck of soap that was a little small for the diameter of the mug.
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Abandoned By Gypsies.
I enjoy surplus US Army Medical Department containers. They are bulletproof, beautiful, plentiful, and inexpensive. Dad served in WWII as a Navy nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC. The bowl at right was his. All are a daily reminder of the “Greatest Generation.”
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Those are really nice
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