elizabeth priddy on sat 23 oct 99
it all depends on what you are throwing:
if it is wider than it is tall, then use a bat
if it is taller than the length of your hand,
use the bat
if it is smaller than the palm of your hand use
the hump method
if you don't care about distortion, cut it off
the bare wheel head, whatever the size
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Elizabeth Priddy
personal email: epriddy@usa.net
website: http://www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:32:03 Nina Jones wrote:
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>Hi, Everybody!
>
>Okay, I'm going to jump in with the stupid questions: The canvas and tar paper
>bats don't move around when you are centering? How much clay can you throw
>using these batless bats? And when you are throwing with a plasti-bat--is ther
>a trick to keeping the pot from sticking to the bat so that you don't have to
>cut it off again when removing it from the bat to trim?
>
>I've started throwing on bats only because I'm making some really wide bowls an
>platters that I can't remove from the bare wheelhead without warping. My tiny
>pots I throw off the hump, my larger pots I throw right on the wheelhead and
>lift off using a scissor-finger lift or pot-lifts, right onto a wooden bat next
>to my wheel. I started throwing on the wheel head because the bats at school
>were always warped and always popping off the pins because the holes were so
>worn. So one of the instructors taught me how to "hydroplane" the pot off the
>wheelhead. You wet the wheel down and bring some of the water under the pot
>with the wire as you cut it off, then skim the pot off the wheel, sliding it of
>over the layer of water. Takes me less than 10 seconds. But for the larger
>and/or wider pots . . . well, I've lost too many pots. So I'm back to the bats
>TIA for any suggestions.
>
>Nina D. Jones
>Southside Chicago
>@ njones@winston.com "She held her new forming self in the center of her being,
>pulling carefully as this New Self took shape in her heart's hands, like clay o
>a potter's wheel." From ReCreation, N.D. Jones
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>>>> Dannon Rhudy 10/21/99 10:06AM >>>
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>Canvas bats work very well for many applications. I don't go to
>any trouble to make mine, just cut squares smaller than the
>diameter of the wheel head. I believe Vince Pitelka wrote a very
>detailed, careful explanation of these, also, some time back,
>and it is probably in the archives.
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>Regards,
>
>Dannon Rhudy
>potter@koyote.com
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>At 05:02 PM 10/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
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>>Hello everyone,
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>>indeed forget bats is what I found out when I saw someone throw on a piece
>>of canvas... no pins, no clicking sound, no warping... Hmmmm...
>>
>>Make sure you shrink the canvas before cutting it and iron it -- this stuff
>>usually gets pretty wrinkled. Waterproof glue is used to outline a band
>>where the circle is to be cut. The glue will keep the threads from coming
>>apart after the canvas is cut and lodging themselves in the clay.
>>
>>Once ready to use the dry canvas is applied to the wheel head with slip or
>>what was left at the bottom of your slurry bucket from the last time your
>>threw. You won't need much. You are now ready to throw as usual.
>>
>>When ready to cut the pot off, just cut between the canvas and the wheel
>>head; no more messy cuts. Slide the piece off the wheel head.
>>
>>Once leather hard, the canvas peels off the bottom of the pot leaving a
>>slightly rough bottom since the canvas is not perfectly smooth. It
>>actually doesn't need to be trimmed unless you choose to.
>>
>>One disadvantage is that unlike the bat, you can't just plop the canvas
>>back on the wheel head and keep going after you have removed it. The other
>>is that if you throw bigger than the wheel head, you still will need a bat;
>>it's only good for smaller items.
>>
>>I was told that this technique was learned from Kathi Cobb, a Boston potter
>>a the time.
>>
>>It might be worth a try if you don't like bats :)
>>
>>
>>--
>>Faye http://clay.justnet.com
>>
>> Yes, I have learned from my mistakes...
>> I can reproduce them exactly.
>>
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