Dan Saultman on mon 28 may 07
I have four pots that are worth grinding the bottoms. The glaze has run
off of them at the bottoms. I want something that doesn't cause heat
and that makes short work of the grinding with a nice finished look.
I thought that I had seen such items in CM. But would like your opinion
on which one is a good one.
Many Thanks.
Dan Saultman
Detroit
Patrick Cross on mon 28 may 07
WEN use to make a neat little wet grinder but to get one now you'd have to
go to eBay or someplace like that...and buy it used. It was called the Wet
Wheel and about $80 when new. I think Sears carried them for a while in the
80's. Actually there was more than one model... Let's see here...I found
these on eBay right now. I have two like this one that I got for about $30
each with the shipping included. The other model I've seen has a more
narrow but larger diameter grinding wheel. Oh and then I think Wen also
made a horizontal wet grinder.
http://cgi.ebay.com/WEN-WET-STONE-WHEEL-SHARPENER-GRINDER-HONER-2901_W0QQitemZ170114522234QQihZ007QQcategoryZ42290QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/WEN-WET-WHEEL-HOLLOW-GRINDER-SHARPENER-AND-HONER_W0QQitemZ290122044236QQihZ019QQcategoryZ42290QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/WEN-MODEL-2901-WET-WHEEL-HOLLOW-GRINDER_W0QQitemZ280119426157QQihZ018QQcategoryZ20778QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/WEN-Wet-Wheel-SHARPENER-GRINDER-Model-2901_W0QQitemZ220116594718QQihZ012QQcategoryZ42290QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Patrick Cross (cone10soda)
On 5/28/07, Dan Saultman wrote:
>
> I have four pots that are worth grinding the bottoms. The glaze has run
> off of them at the bottoms. I want something that doesn't cause heat
> and that makes short work of the grinding with a nice finished look.
> I thought that I had seen such items in CM. But would like your opinion
> on which one is a good one.
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> Dan Saultman
> Detroit
>
>
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William & Susan Schran User on mon 28 may 07
On 5/28/07 4:49 PM, "Dan Saultman" wrote:
> I have four pots that are worth grinding the bottoms. The glaze has run
> off of them at the bottoms. I want something that doesn't cause heat
> and that makes short work of the grinding with a nice finished look.
> I thought that I had seen such items in CM. But would like your opinion
> on which one is a good one.
Working with crystalline glazes, I do a lot of grinding & smoothing bottom
of pots.
I use a 6" bench grinder fitted with a silicon carbide grinding wheel to
remove larger amounts of glaze and pedestal material. All of this is done
dry, outside of the studio, wearing respirator & eye protection.
After coarse grinding, I even out and smooth the bottom with a 8" portable
flat lap machine using diamond disks with a small stream of water that cools
the disks and eliminates formation of dust.
You can purchase self adhesive silicon carbide and diamond disks, attach to
plastic bats, then use your wheel to grind. You'll need to create a system
to keep a small stream of water on the disks to eliminate dusts.
--
William "Bill" Schran
wschran@cox.net
wschran@nvcc.edu
http://www.creativecreekartisans.com
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