Ken Nowicki on wed 12 nov 97
In a message dated 11-11-97, Georgia wrote:
<< Subj: Giffin Grip
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The only thing I don't like (this may sound silly) is that it rises above
your splash pan and
sends trimmings flying all over! Maybe someone has a solution for this.
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Doesn't sound silly to ME Georgia! :-) It's really my "only" complaint as
well... I don't have the perfect solution yet either. I talked to the owner
at his booth at NCECA once about it, and his only suggestion was this
cardboard partition you can "buy" to eliminate some of the problem... but
heck, you can make one for free! Maybe some of your extra innovative
CLAYARTERS have found a better solution... hmmm? Sure would like to
eliminate having to sweep up the trimmings (AND cat hair) everytime I'm done
trimming... ("cat hair" is not especially condusive for throwing and
trimming reclaimed clay...) :::laughing::: Overall though... I do love my
Giffin Grip! :-)
Ken Nowicki
RakuArtist@aol.com
....where the air is cloudy and unstable today in Encino, CA - looks like
we're inbetween rainstorms...
Jane Woodside on thu 13 nov 97
I once heard about someone who used a child's backyard swimming pool to make
an extra large splash pan to catch flying trimmings. I sometimes lay out
drycleaning plastic on the floor around my wheel to make clean up a bit
quicker.
Bill Aycock on thu 13 nov 97
there is a current saying- "been there- done that"-- etc. re the grip,
flying trimmings and, especially CAT hair!
I have a CI wheel that I really enjoy, at the age of 70, after learning on,
making, and using kick wheels in earlier years. Then I got a Giffin. (I
have always had cats) The interference between the splash ring and the
Giffin was enough to make it impossible to use both. Rather than spin the
trimmings all over (hitting the cat, and collecting his hair), I made a
"collector" from cheap, thin, plywood.
The way the splash ring works on the CI is really very good; the ring has
"pegs" that fit into slots in the body of the wheel, and can be taken off
and reinstalled simply and quickly. I made "pegs" like the ring has, and
made a "U" shaped piece of 1/2 inch plywood, with the outside large enough
to clear the Giffin. The inside of the "U" is about the same size as the
splash ring inside.
I put the pegs into the slots intended for them, put the plywood"U" down
where I wanted it, and glued them together. - instant fit with little need
to measure carefully.
I then bent a thin piece of Luan plywood (not waterproof) to fit the "U".
It is high enough to catch trimmings (Higher than the splash ring) and is
open on the side away from me.
Works like a jewel. It took a little time, but I had that, because I was
recovering from surgery and couldnt do anything very strenuous anyway.
At 06:39 PM 11/12/97 EST, you wrote:
> The only thing I don't like (this may sound silly) is that it rises above
>your splash pan and
> sends trimmings flying all over! Maybe someone has a solution for this.
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>Doesn't sound silly to ME Georgia! :-) I
>Ken Nowicki
>RakuArtist@aol.com
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Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
--- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr --
baycock@hiwaay.net
David Hendley on fri 14 nov 97
Well, I don't have a giffen grip and I don't have a
splash pan, but I also don't like to sweep up trimmings,
so I made a "trimming pan".
Another one of my "free" tools.
Think of it as a non-water tight splash pan.
The bottom is 2 identical pieces of plywood,
on the order of half-circle shapes like the bottom of a
splash pan, but you can make them half-oval,
or to fit your wheel table, or whatever.
A sink cut-out, from a cabinet shop, is a good
low cost option if you don't have plywood scraps around the shop.
Cut out an area to fit around the wheel shaft
so the 2 halves will fit together.
The "sides" are heavy plastic pieces cut from the sides of
defunct or leaking 5 gallon buckets.
Make them as wide as you want your catcher to be tall.
Since they are already circular shaped, they will
easily conform to the outside edge of the plywood.
Let the plastic overlap a couple of inches where
the the pieces of plywood meet.
Attatch the plastic to the edge of the plywood with short
roofing nails.
I just set my two halves in place, but you could add a screen door
latch or something to hold the two together.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
See David Hendley's Pottery Page at
http://www.sosis.com/hendley/david/
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> The only thing I don't like (this may sound silly) is that it rises above
>your splash pan and
> sends trimmings flying all over! Maybe someone has a solution for this.
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>Doesn't sound silly to ME Georgia! :-) It's really my "only" complaint as
>well... I don't have the perfect solution yet either. I talked to the owner
>at his booth at NCECA once about it, and his only suggestion was this
>cardboard partition you can "buy" to eliminate some of the problem... but
>heck, you can make one for free! Maybe some of your extra innovative
>CLAYARTERS have found a better solution... hmmm? Sure would like to
>eliminate having to sweep up the trimmings (AND cat hair) everytime I'm done
>trimming... ("cat hair" is not especially condusive for throwing and
>trimming reclaimed clay...) :::laughing::: Overall though... I do love my
>Giffin Grip! :-)
>
>Ken Nowicki
>RakuArtist@aol.com
>
>...where the air is cloudy and unstable today in Encino, CA - looks like
>we're inbetween rainstorms...
>
>
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
See David Hendley's Pottery Page at
http://www.sosis.com/hendley/david/
Olivia T Cavy on fri 14 nov 97
Jane's suggestion about lining the floor around her wheel with plastic
reminds me to mention that I regularly put several old bath towels on the
floor around my wheel. Originally this was to help protect the floor and
make clean-up easier during throwing as well as trimming. Then I grew to
enjoy being able to shake out the towels outside and throw them in the
washing machine.
Bonnie D. Hellman
Pittsburgh, PA
work email: oliviatcavy@juno.com
home email: mou10man@sgi.net
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:56:38 EST Jane Woodside
writes:
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>message----------------------------
>I once heard about someone who used a child's backyard swimming pool
>to make
>an extra large splash pan to catch flying trimmings. I sometimes lay
>out
>drycleaning plastic on the floor around my wheel to make clean up a
>bit
>quicker.
>
Carolynn Palmer on mon 17 nov 97
Because I throw on a Brent wheel, the splash pan is composed of two separate
pieces that snap together around the wheel head, but when I when to trim with
a Griffin Grip, it proved to have no use whatsoever - too low to catch any
trimmings.
So, I went to the local Meijer's store (kind of like K-Mart) and in the
housewares plastics department bought two (2) tubs that are about 18 inches
in diameter and 8 inches deep. I cut, with an exacto knife, the bottom of
each tub, using the splash pan as a pattern for each half of my trimming
catcher - but then cut the sides and bottom so that they overlap about 2
inches. That's why I needed two tubs - so that the two pieces of the
trimming catcher would overlap. I then put these on the wheel, just like my
splash pan and fasten them together where they overlap at the top edge, with
welders spring-clamps (used to use little c clamps, but the welders
spring-clamps are quicker) and when it gets full of trimmings, I separate the
two halves and dump them.
I've been using this about 8 years and the tubs are getting brittle and
cracking where I lean my arm on them while trimming - so I just bought two
new tubs and found out the price went from $1 each to $4 each, but still not
bad as these things go.
Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Ctr, Michigan
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