Anita M. Swan on tue 10 jun 97
Hoping someone can advise me - I recently purchased a Brent wheel (C).
As I mentioned in the Beauty of Being Small thread I keep my wheel on
the patio, April-October. My old wheel (an older Shimpo) had no
problems with just a tarp over it. The new wheel has a warning about
hosing down the underside and motor case. I've been told there are
computer components under there. What can I use to cover this thing? I
tried to find a plastic storage container but they're just too small.
I'm afraid the tarp won't be enough. At this point we're looking at a
DOG HOUSE. I had the wheel at the school where I teach, but now it's in
the back of my car and I want to start throwing the minute that last
school bell rings. Any ideas, suggestions? Cheap and lightweight if
possible!
TIA, Anita
carrie jacobson on sun 31 may 98
Hi! Marcia from Montana talked about setting up her outdoor summer
studio... Tell more! Are you in a shack, a tent, a lean-to,,, how do you
protect the clay and the drying work from rain, etc?? Do you use electric
wheel or a kick wheel?
I have been thinking it would be great to have an outdoor studio, in a
tent, or a screen house...
What would be really great would be to have a studio on a houseboat! I am
sure it would come with problems, but what a great space it could be.
Carrie
Carrie Jacobson
Pawcatuck, CT
mailto:jacobson@brainiac.com
Vicki Katz on mon 1 jun 98
I have an outdoor studio. I did not think it was such a big deal. My wheel
is outside on my patio. My patio has 2 walls & a roof with ceiling fans - it
is a lovely setting actually on the side of my house & surrounded by plants &
a garden. I picked that area in part because there is a faucet out there - so
I have access to water. My electric wheel is out there & ware racks covered
with plastic. My clay is in buckets or plastic bags. The kiln & slab roller,
glazes & chemicals, scales etc are in the garage which is has a common door to
the patio. I really am happy out there & I did not realize that was an
unusual set-up.
Try it - you might like it.
Vicki Katz
Mel Jacobson on tue 2 jun 98
in minnesota we are so tough that we have outdoor studios even in
the winter.
we use mobil1 instead of water.
hell, all you need is a good snowmobile suit and rubber gloves.
mel/mn
http://www.pclink.com/melpots
Marcia Selsor on tue 2 jun 98
I have a slab roller on my covered patio along with two kilns and work table
and dry rocks. About 13'x18' is covered with a roof. the rest of a 20x20
concrete slab is uncovered. It is in my backyard garden with all the
songbirds. My basement studio also has a slab roller, extruder, a Stuart
wheel, work tables and dry rack. I am preparing to move my studio to the
garage once I get the gas kiln installed next to that. I have used the gas
kilns at the university but I am planning my retirement set up. Since I do
more large slab construction at home , I use the concrete pad area for laying
out big things. For now, it gives me lots of room and I prefer working at home
rather than in the campus studio. It would be really cool to be on a houseboat
studio,but we don't have much water in Montana. -maybe Flathead Lake near
Shaner would be beautiful but you'd only be on the lake.
Marcia in Montana
carrie jacobson wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi! Marcia from Montana talked about setting up her outdoor summer
> studio... Tell more! Are you in a shack, a tent, a lean-to,,, how do you
> protect the clay and the drying work from rain, etc?? Do you use electric
> wheel or a kick wheel?
>
> I have been thinking it would be great to have an outdoor studio, in a
> tent, or a screen house...
>
> What would be really great would be to have a studio on a houseboat! I am
> sure it would come with problems, but what a great space it could be.
>
> Carrie
>
> Carrie Jacobson
> Pawcatuck, CT
> mailto:jacobson@brainiac.com
Brad Sondahl on wed 3 jun 98
I've kept a kickwheel outside for use by my intern or myself (when I'm
not under pressure to produce). Factors to consider are: quick and
uneven drying of pots (remove to workshop as soon as ware board is
full), quick drying of throwing balls (keep covered with plastic), bugs
(Idaho mosquitoes mostly stay hid during the day, unless it's humid and
overcast--eat your heart out, Minnesota potters--but a few hardy souls
can really bug you), contaminants getting into the trimmings (bugs and
tree-things). Aside from those minor caveats, it's very enjoyable. I
finally got a screen house to enclose the wheel area.
--
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amy parker on wed 3 jun 98
I moved my wheel outside to my covered patio in April. I have my kiln out
there also, along with the shelves, etc. This is a new setup for me, so
I need to build various shelving thingies, etc. I can hose this all off, so
it is pretty convenient, compared to the garage, which is on the upper
level. I have a "studio" room in the basement that opens onto the patio, so
I can go back into the air-conditioned comfort to glaze, etc.
So far this is working out pretty good with a few exceptions. This afternoon
it was 93 degrees, but this morning was pretty comfortable. I try to throw
in the morning. In April, I was throwing with hot water in the mornings...
The biggest downside I have found to all this, so far, besides the giant
starving mosquitoes in the afternoon, is the wildlife. This morning, I was
visited by a large toad, who seems to live behind the kilns shelves, two
chipmunks, a large rabbit, and numerous birds. The nocturnal visitor(s) seem
to be the biggest problem...Rocky Raccoon has come & played in the slop bucket,
then inspected all the pots left out (fortunately only fired ones were
available at the time) and left tiny muddy handprints all over them. Then he
(she/they) went upstairs & ate all the goldfish in my "water garden" (large
plastic bucket) (more handprints). I am considering a sign that says "Free
Sushi". Maybe I should leave out wet pots with dead goldfish & see how they
get altered by the tiny handprints???
So far the deer stay on their side of the fence...
You would think I was in the country, but I'm in surburban Atlanta!
Any suggestions as to the raccoon problem would be appreciated!!!
amy parker Lithonia, GA
amyp@sd-software.com
Barney Adams on thu 4 jun 98
I know the feeling with the wildlife problem. I just evicted a family
of racoons from my attic for the 4th time. It's like a battlezone at times,
between them trying to gain entry or me trying to evict. My suggestion is the
one solution I am unable to utilize and that would be a dog. I can'nt dedicate
the time to care for the dog so I war with the racoons. I wo'nt bother with
the woodpeckers that have peppered the west side of my home with holes to nest i
Barney
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I moved my wheel outside to my covered patio in April. I have my kiln out
> there also, along with the shelves, etc. This is a new setup for me, so
> I need to build various shelving thingies, etc. I can hose this all off, so
> it is pretty convenient, compared to the garage, which is on the upper
> level. I have a "studio" room in the basement that opens onto the patio, so
> I can go back into the air-conditioned comfort to glaze, etc.
>
> So far this is working out pretty good with a few exceptions. This afternoon
> it was 93 degrees, but this morning was pretty comfortable. I try to throw
> in the morning. In April, I was throwing with hot water in the mornings...
>
> The biggest downside I have found to all this, so far, besides the giant
> starving mosquitoes in the afternoon, is the wildlife. This morning, I was
> visited by a large toad, who seems to live behind the kilns shelves, two
> chipmunks, a large rabbit, and numerous birds. The nocturnal visitor(s) seem
> to be the biggest problem...Rocky Raccoon has come & played in the slop bucket
> then inspected all the pots left out (fortunately only fired ones were
> available at the time) and left tiny muddy handprints all over them. Then he
> (she/they) went upstairs & ate all the goldfish in my "water garden" (large
> plastic bucket) (more handprints). I am considering a sign that says "Free
> Sushi". Maybe I should leave out wet pots with dead goldfish & see how they
> get altered by the tiny handprints???
>
> So far the deer stay on their side of the fence...
>
> You would think I was in the country, but I'm in surburban Atlanta!
>
> Any suggestions as to the raccoon problem would be appreciated!!!
> amy parker Lithonia, GA
> amyp@sd-software.com
>
lpskeen on thu 4 jun 98
amy parker wrote:
Maybe I should leave out wet pots with dead goldfish & see how they
> get altered by the tiny handprints???
Amy, ROFL!!! This reminds me of when I first got my wheel. We lived in
a condo and I had the thing set out on the patio. Kept it covered with
a large gas grill cover when not in use.
The first time I threw chip & dip platters, I had 'em stacked on the
shelves in the storage room. This, of course, was a giant lure for the
cat, who HAD to be up on the highest spot available. He put his two
front feet in the tray part of the dish, and of course I didn't find it
until the next day when it was leather hard. I went ahead and fired the
thing, wax resisted the paw prints, and glaze fired it. That plate was
the first thing to go at my next sale! Since then I have stuck the
cat's feet on plates ON PURPOSE, and the dog too. People love it.
--
Lisa Skeen
Living Tree Pottery & Soaps
http://www.uncg.edu/~lpskeen
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful
words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of
the good people." -- Dr. M. L. King, Jr. 4/16/63
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