wallace myers on sun 1 mar 98
I am sure that someone has tried using some kind of
lubricant, say veg. oil or glycerin while throwing. Please
share the results of the experiment with me.
Thanks, Wallace
kinoko@junction.net on mon 2 mar 98
At 17:17 3/1/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I am sure that someone has tried using some kind of
>lubricant, say veg. oil or glycerin while throwing. Please
>share the results of the experiment with me.
>
>Thanks, Wallace
>Wallace, Potters have thrown just about every material...including cream
cheese.Why anyone would wish to use any lubricant other than a good slip,is
beyond me...although I too would like to hear of other lubricants. I
suupose,the least one could expect would be the slaughterhouse stink upon
firing and the most one might expect would be that the carbon would weaken
the body. Don &Isao.
Paul Lewing on tue 3 mar 98
Speaking of unusual lubricants for throwing, when I was in graduate
school, a friend bet me I couldn't throw Bondo (auto body putty). I
was able to make a crude bowl, using a bowl of lacquer thinner as
lubricant. This was in about 1970, so no one gasped in horror and
clutched their breast as they would now at the very thought of this
method. I won that bet, but I wonder how many brain cells I lost.
Oh, well, they were being sluffed off in all directions back then.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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