The perfect shaving bowl?

[FX67]

I have yet to find the perfect lathering bowl. Ceramic bowls are too heavy, metal bowls are too small, and most don't add anything to the experience. I'd love to see a bowl on the design of the Muhle lathering bowl, but two to three times larger. The Muhle bowl is beautiful porcelain with a nice lip. The problem is that it is designed to load the brush with soap from the bowl, and then build a lather on the face. It's too small to whip up a lather in the bowl. So my vote would be for a porcelain bowl like Muhle, but much larger.

Pewter bowl is big enough, heavy enough and a great shape. Plus (for me) it doesn’t have that Stainless Steed medical shine. It looks more antique if anything.

 

[Northam Saint]

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Pewter bowl is big enough, heavy enough and a great shape. Plus (for me) it doesn’t have that Stainless Steed medical shine. It looks more antique if anything.

Pewter does make a good lather bowl, but beware ! When used as storage for soap the soap reacts with the pewter and makes for a nasty black finish. It had two pewter soap dishes and both went the same way.

 

[FX67]

Thanks, good to know. I only keep soap in none reactive dishes, plastic or porcelain.
Bowl is being washed and wiped after each shave.

 

[Quique]

In Zara Home stores, you can buy this for € 10. It is 15 cm in diameter and a rough texture

 

[ManicDee]

A little bowl from Giles Shaving Co, I purchased this off P.B and it is a little cracker (no pun intended)

 

[Mr Bigmem]

In Zara Home stores, you can buy this for € 10. It is 15 cm in diameter and a rough texture

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How big is that in the palm?

 

[Quique]

How big is that in the palm?

It is quite comfortable in the hand. Here with the 2016 Shavemac ATG

 

[Hectorsgaf]

In Zara Home stores, you can buy this for € 10. It is 15 cm in diameter and a rough texture

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Now that DOES look like it has a decent depth. I am yet to find something that is actually sold as a shaving bowl to have this type of depth and like you, have a bespoke surabachi that was not intended for this purpose.

 

[fundzalo]

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[JePorto]

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Definitely the best I want one but the price with the shipping is to high

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[shadowman12]

I have a shaving bowl from wood, and it's great, because if you drop it, it won't break:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/GOODFELLAS-SMILE-Emlok-Wooden-Shaving/dp/B07G7F36LN

It's also has quite a big diameter of 12cm, so enough room to lather up

 

[FSword]

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They look amazing... and pricey! Good thing I don't bowl lather any more.

 

[Nisse]

light in melamin, drop and it will not crack porcelain or toes in bathroom, cost less than two pounds so will not break bank either, not forum perfect but my shave is of a less fuzzy kind

 

[jaro101969]

Mine is about 104 mm wide at the brim, which is too narrow for my liking given the depth of 60 mm, both inner measurements. The diameter impedes swirling and the handle keeps bumping into the sides. In my experience.

Ratio should at least be >2 I’m guessing. Case in point, Steve Woodhead’s suribachi is at 2 (150 to 75). Symmetrical Pottery is just under 2 (130 to 66).

I have 2 different bowls but i use the van der haggen apothecary bowl mostly but if i try to swirl it always seems to bump sides also. Dont know dimensions.

 

[Hone]

I've not used a bowl with a brush rest. Is it helpful? I can imagine it unbalancing the bowl a bit. I can imagine it might be ok if you haven't got anywhere else to dry a brush, being able to leave it hanging over the edge.