Sylvia Shirley on fri 17 mar 00
Hello everybody.
To those of you who saw Joyce's post which mentioned the
tomato cage thing I made for her - it is essentially just a
slightly modified, upside-down tomato cage. It fits neatly
inside a 5-gallon bucket. You cut off the bottom ring, and
use the straight pieces to span the center ring. You glaze
the inside of the pot as usual, then sit it on those
straight pieces and dip it into the glaze. (Be sure to hold
down on the bottom of the pot, or it goes "blurp" and makes
a mess.) After it's dry enough to handle, you dab a bit of
glaze on the little space where the wires touch the rim. It
eliminates finger marks and dropping pots into buckets, and
gives a nice, smooth coating. You can also dip up to any
point you choose, so you don't have to wax the bottoms -
just stop before you get there.
You can use the same theory to make bigger ones, using
macrame rings and stiff wire, to dip wide bowls and plates.
It was in Pottery Making Illustrated a while back, but I
don't have my copy handy so I can't tell you which month.
I'll try to put together some more specific instructions.
If you're interested, contact me directly.
Sylvia Shirley
Veena Raghavan on sat 18 mar 00
Message text written by Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>It was in Pottery Making Illustrated a while back, but I
don't have my copy handy so I can't tell you which month.
I'll try to put together some more specific instructions.
If you're interested, contact me directly.
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Hi Shirley,
In case I can save you the trouble of putting together the
instructions again, the issue of PMI was Volume 2 No. 1, Winter 99, and the
page is 38. I remember reading it with interest (I am in the process of
collecting all the information I can in the hopes of having my own studio
before the end of the year.) and, not having ever seen a tomato cage (being
a real city gal), I was intrigued, but filed it away for future reference
for when I would have the space to have all my own gizmos.
If you have any further tips you were going to share on this method
of dipping, I would love to have them.
All the best.
Veena
Veena Raghavan
75124.2520@compuserve.com
eden@sover.net on fri 31 mar 00
Well I'll be darned.....there's a use for those suckers after all! They
are terrible at holding up tomato plants, anyway they are way too flimsy
for any tomato plants I've had. So if anybody decides to drop by here
sometime and wants one just let me know, I have a whole lot of them
someplace around here.
Since I've been on seems the personnel at the helm has changed. Can't
imagine life without Clayart, even though I don't often find the time to
read and respond.
Eleanora
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At 11:53 AM 3/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hello everybody.
>
>To those of you who saw Joyce's post which mentioned the
>tomato cage thing I made for her - it is essentially just a
>slightly modified, upside-down tomato cage. It fits neatly
>inside a 5-gallon bucket. You cut off the bottom ring, and
>use the straight pieces to span the center ring. You glaze
>the inside of the pot as usual, then sit it on those
>straight pieces and dip it into the glaze. (Be sure to hold
>down on the bottom of the pot, or it goes "blurp" and makes
>a mess.) After it's dry enough to handle, you dab a bit of
>glaze on the little space where the wires touch the rim. It
>eliminates finger marks and dropping pots into buckets, and
>gives a nice, smooth coating. You can also dip up to any
>point you choose, so you don't have to wax the bottoms -
>just stop before you get there.
>
>You can use the same theory to make bigger ones, using
>macrame rings and stiff wire, to dip wide bowls and plates.
>
>It was in Pottery Making Illustrated a while back, but I
>don't have my copy handy so I can't tell you which month.
>I'll try to put together some more specific instructions.
>If you're interested, contact me directly.
>
>Sylvia Shirley
>
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net
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