Amy Romaniec on mon 4 jul 11
I have a stool from a theater ticket office very comfortable swivel =3D=
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I agree that The mirror is MOST important no bending around to look wh=
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I have another higher up on the wall to observe the TV across the room!=3D=
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I even put mirrors behind the pots on my shelves in the sales room . I pic=
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k them up at the thrift shop=3D2C yard sales . cheap.
Amy
high horse farm pottery
> Date: Mon=3D2C 4 Jul 2011 08:58:52 -0400
> From: bstaffel@CHARTERMI.NET
> Subject: Re: Stools & Thoughts
> To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
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> I use an old stool from a school's chemistry lab. Very uncomfortable but =
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> mirror in front of me so that I don't have to lean back to see the whole
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> DVD Throwing with Coils and Slabs
> DVD Introduction to Wheel Work
> Charter Member Potters Council
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Steve Mills on mon 4 jul 11
My throwing stool was VERY cheap from Ikea. I shortened the front legs to a=
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gle the top, cut a strip off the front and stuck it on the seat at the back=
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o make a bum stop and upholstered the lot. It stops me sliding off backward=
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when I lean into the clay I can sit on it all day.....perfect!
Steve M
Steve Mills
Bath
UK
www.mudslinger.me.uk
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On 4 Jul 2011, at 16:22, Amy Romaniec wrote:
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Vince Pitelka on mon 4 jul 11
If I was doing serious throwing for long hours as I did in California befor=
e
I went to grad school, I'd build another stool like the one I used then.
The base was a 16" "split-rim" truck wheel, with a pipe flange welded to th=
e
center hole and a short piece of 2" pipe sticking up vertically, another
pipe flange, and a steel tractor seat welded to the flange. I angled the
tractor seat for the ideal leg position, and of course adjusted the height
to be ideal for me. I strapped a thin chair cushion to the tractor seat,
and it was a very comfortable and effective throwing stool. I guess that
any thrower is lucky if they find a ready-made stool that turns out to be
ideal. They almost always need some sort of modification, and so many
stools just aren't heavy enough for this application. If you are going to
have to modify a stool and if it still is going to be a compromise, then wh=
y
not just start from scratch, and design and build your own?
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
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