Alex Wilson on thu 18 mar 99
Yet another imperial force usurping (and mis-using) cultural icons.
Can we get back to pots, ceramic theory, etc. and before I get 'flamed', I'm
an actual Scot, probably distantly Danish via the Viking invaders, almost
certainly Irish, since they invaded what the Romans called Caledonia and
killed off (assimilated?) all the Picts, and
definitely English as my great Grampa was from Cornwall and therefore a
Briton.
And didn't we all originate in Africa? I don't hold with the 'Six Days' theory
of evolution.
There now, that's my two bobs' worth on the subject of cultural roots, and now
....
Ribs. I use a steel rib, plate steel, not your wibbly wobbly scraper thing. A
rib of substance, about ten centimetres by six with a nice hole in the middle
so you can hold on to it while making hundreds of coffee cups with all sorts
of compound curves in them.
Anybody out there making Slipware? Let's have a talk, I'm getting lonely among
all the high fire chat. Got any PbSiO2, or does anyone know of a potential
lead-free formula for traditional slipware that doesn't cloud, crawl or
pinhole? The best I've come up with so far has ninety-five per cent frit and
doesn't take to the addition of iron oxide.
BFN,
Alex (rant mode ON)
why use a screwdriver when there's a hammer handy?
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