Martin Rice on mon 20 oct 08
As I mentioned previously, my wife and I are just getting started
learning to throw pots (again). We've been going to community center
classes for several weeks and now are expecting our own wheel to
arrive at the house on Wednesday.
I bought 50 lbs of Standard 118, a nice white clay body that's
supposedly good for beginners. It's also supposed to have medium grog,
but it feels smooth as silk to me (and I don't have particularly rough
hands that wouldn't notice). The medium grog, according to the person
at the store in town where I bought it makes it good for learning
because it has more structure. That may be, I don't know enough yet to
know.
I'm pretty sure that we'll soon (a month or two) be buying either a
Paragon TnF24-3 digital model, cone 10 kiln or the TnF24 digital model
cone 8 kiln, though in either case we expect to be working at cone 6.
After reading what Mel had to say about the importance of clay bodies
-- in this case in reference to s cracks -- and how important the
correct clay body is in general for what a person is doing, I thought
that instead of just starting out with the Standard 118 I mentioned
above, I'd ask the group for recommendations for a clay body that
would be a good cone 6 body to get started with. By "get started with"
I don't mean one for beginners. My assumption is that as we go along
we'll try different clay bodies, but I'd like to start with "a real
one," if that makes any sense, that is, one that's good for making
cone 6 pots for an experienced potter. We're not particularly looking
for the easy way into this.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Martin
Signal Mountain, TN
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