Cheap-bastard-scuttle-alternative

**PainhammeR** · 04-06-2009, 10:56 PM

Hello Folks:

new here and while I am waiting for my DE and other supplies to get here I was looking around at what I could use to make my own scuttle. I am a cheap bastage so I don't really want to pay over $50 for a clay scuttle when I might be able to do one on my own for far less. I started at Walmart and looked for a violet pot, which I hear works well if you get the right size. Unfortunately, they were out. Not only a few left, I mean out. None.

So I looked at some custard cup things in the baking kinda section. I found a white Corelle cup thing for about 2.99 or so. These are CDN dollarz, FYI. So then I just needed something it could sit in and stay warm.

I couldn't find anything at W-mart so I headed to Canadian tire and basically started to stick my cup thing in every bowl/mug I could see. Anyway, I finally found a coffee mug that held enough water and the custard cup thing fit perfectly. I mean perfectly, like it was made for it. Let me post some pics (if I can figure out how).

Hope this works. Will let you know when I get my gear.

**juleswinnfield** · 04-06-2009, 11:04 PM

Haha nice this is exactly what I have been looking for. I was also looking for a Violet Pot from Wally World for a scuttle alternative!

**nrek619** · 04-06-2009, 11:22 PM

great Idea right there!!!!!

I usually just float my metal bowl in da sink.....

**mikeypedone1** · 04-07-2009, 04:32 AM

Nice!

**kzoo1** · 04-07-2009, 05:50 AM

Very similar to what I'm using. I'll have to get a photo posted.

Works well!

**SRock** · 04-07-2009, 06:16 AM

Nice! I usually just float a bowl or mug in the sink though. Either way looks like you've got a cheaper alternative!

**MAK** · 04-07-2009, 06:23 AM

Good work. I always love it when someone comes up with a creative idea.

**cop** · 04-07-2009, 06:28 AM

Brilliant solution - and nice. I like when people like you find a good and cheap way to solve a problem. Any other innovative gents around here?
Let's see more!
Regards
cop

**Anton von Tripp** · 04-07-2009, 06:36 AM

This is great stuff - what I am on the lookout for is an insulated thermos-style container and a heat conducting bowl to fit inside.
Constant vigilance will be maintained at all times!

Cordially, AvT.

**arcman** · 04-07-2009, 06:43 AM

Yeah, I found a combo like that a Walmart (I think it was using the same ramakin bowl, too), the only problem is it isn't quite deep enough for anything beyond a small to medium brush. If you have something around the size of an EJ BBB and you face lather though, it should work great.

**Mad Prophet** · 04-07-2009, 07:04 AM

That looks very nice.

I'd imagine for best thermal properties you'd want a metal bowl for the interior vessel and Styrofoam for the outer wall. That would be cheap and classy looking. SWMBOs everywhere will swoon at your ingenuity.

**6thRound** · 04-07-2009, 07:34 AM

Nice, that's similar to what I've been doing! I love the DIY creativity, good job

**Not4you** · 04-07-2009, 07:53 AM

Thats the cup I currently use for my soap. I cheese gratered my MWF and compressed in into the cup. Now I need to go find that mug!!

**SavantStrike** · 04-07-2009, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by Mad Prophet

That looks very nice.

I'd imagine for best thermal properties you'd want a metal bowl for the interior vessel and Styrofoam for the outer wall. That would be cheap and classy looking. SWMBOs everywhere will swoon at your ingenuity.

Yeah!!

How about a buffet tray inside a styrofoam cooler!! Enough hot lather to shave a mammoth!

**heirkb** · 04-07-2009, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by SavantStrike

Yeah!!

How about a buffet tray inside a styrofoam cooler!! Enough hot lather to shave a mammoth!

If you have the arm strength to whip all that lather up in the first place. Or you could just use one of those egg-beating handmixer things...hmm...

**pablo_h** · 04-07-2009, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by heirkb

If you have the arm strength to whip all that lather up in the first place. Or you could just use one of those egg-beating handmixer things...hmm...

Or...........
I just spent $400 on one of those big bench mixers with a rotating metal bowl to make my mrs happy.
If she doesn't use it to make me delicious food, into the bathroom it goes to make my lather

**FLTiger** · 04-07-2009, 09:19 AM

Well done! If I started using something like that, I could finally throw the Sterno out!

**crankymoose** · 04-07-2009, 01:07 PM

nice set up, since both items are white you are forgiven on the match and can still hold on to your man card

, as you know for men there are only basic colors none of that fuscia crap

**Standhaftigkeit** · 04-07-2009, 01:16 PM

Wow... that's actually really cool.

**AFG** · 04-07-2009, 02:08 PM

If you just want to keep the brush warm between passes a coffee mug that doesn't float works quite well in a sink of hot water. As good as a scuttle really but its not easy to find one that doesn't start floating. We've got a cabinet full of coffee mugs and after trying about ten of them I found one that worked. Its still messy taking the cup in and out of the sink but it will work.