candace vosburg on wed 3 nov 99
to whomever posted the message about stilting with high fire porcelin
triangles. what do they look like? i've never heard of such a thing. di you
make them yourself?
candace
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Bill Williams on thu 4 nov 99
I didn't post the message about the triangles. However, I do stilt a lot of
my pieces. I buy the regular stilts with the little pins in them that they
use with low fire ceramics and I pull the pins out. The pins will bend if
you fire them in a cone 6 kiln firing. You can buy several different sizes
and they work very well. I have also made some of my own by simply rolling
out some clay and cutting out the sizes I want. I fire them at cone 6 so
they won't shrink under my pieces and cause them to fall over. Works for
me. Connie
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From: candace vosburg
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: high fire stilting
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to whomever posted the message about stilting with high fire porcelin
triangles. what do they look like? i've never heard of such a thing. di you
make them yourself?
candace
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eden@sover.net on sat 13 nov 99
Hi Candace,
That was probably me. Are they not on the market anymore? these are cast
thingies. I can only think of the starship enterprise in trying to
describe them, 3 arms going out from the center and exactly the same upside
down or rightside up so you could wreck the points on one side and then
proceed to use the other side. I used to buy them by the gross and still
have lots of them. Unlike the star stilts you are seeing all over these
days with the kanthol-wire points, there's nothing to bend under the stress
of weight or temperature so they are ideal for doing highfire stilting.
If they aren't on the market anymore its a real shame.
Eleanora
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> to whomever posted the message about stilting with high fire porcelin
>triangles. what do they look like? i've never heard of such a thing. di you
>make them yourself?
>candace
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