Jenny Lewis on fri 10 oct 97
Sorry to bother everyone, but I've tried the archives and couldn't
find this.
Recently someone posted information about using a piece of carpet to
wipe glaze off bottoms of pots. The usual has happened - I didn't
keep it then but I'd quite like it now! I tried it and got in a bit
of a mess so I must have missed out something vitally important in
the process - or are you meant to end up with a piece of carpet stuck
to your footring? It certainly gave the pot a whole new appearance I
hadn't expected.
If you could please e-mail me direct about this I'd be most grateful.
TIA
Jenny Lewis
rain in London at last
(don't often get to say that!)
Dannon Rhudy on sat 11 oct 97
Sorry, Jenny, couldn't email you direct - you didn't include
your email address.
If you use carpet to remove the glaze from footring: make sure the
piece of carpet has the depth of pile that works with your
footring/glazes. The carpet should be WET, and rinse it from
time to time as it accumulates glaze. After glazing your bowl or
whatever, sit it aside until the glaze is dry to the touch, then
pick it up, press firmly against the carpet, and twist the piece
from side to side. It should remove the glaze efficiently and
leave a perfect glaze-line on the foot. Glazes differ, of course,
and you want to make sure that you do not disturb the glaze
anywhere BUT on the footring. Dry is usually best, otherwise
you will have fingerprints and other mars on the body of the
piece.
Dannon Rhudy
potter@koyote.com
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Sorry to bother everyone, but I've tried the archives and couldn't
find this.
Recently someone posted information about using a piece of carpet
to
wipe glaze off bottoms of pots. The usual has happened - I didn't
keep it then but I'd quite like it now! I tried it and got in a
bit
of a mess so I must have missed out something vitally important in
the process - or are you meant to end up with a piece of carpet
stuck
to your footring? It certainly gave the pot a whole new
appearance I
hadn't expected.
If you could please e-mail me direct about this I'd be most
grateful.
TIA
Jenny Lewis
rain in London at last
(don't often get to say that!)
Paul Lewing on sat 11 oct 97
Jenny,
I think it was probably me who posted that notice about cleaning off
the bottoms of your pots with carpet.
What you do is get a piece of short-nap indoor-outdoor carpet and glue
it to a board with a waterproof glue. I use a board that just fits
over my mop sink, with two little stlats on the bottom side to keep it
from moving sideways. You get the carpet wet, by running it under the
faucet and sort of wringing it off by rubbing it on the edge of the
sink. You want it to be damp, but not really wet.
Then you dip your pots in glaze and set them on the board. When
they're dry enough to handle, you rub them on the carpet and that
takes the glaze off the foot. It leaves a nice beveled edge on the
glaze, and hardly leaves any dry foot visible at all. You do,
however, need to use a glaze that you know will not run.
I hope this solves your problem.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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