Marcia Selsor on sun 18 jun 00
Seattle Pottery has really nice heavy duty raku tongs not in their
catalog. I think they are less than $45. Very heavy duty.
1 800 522-1975 ask about them.
Marcia in Montana
Michelle Lowe wrote:
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> At 05:33 PM 6/17/2000 -0600, Marcia Selsor wrote:
> >Jens,
> >Yes you can add paper pulp to any clay body. I use it in my raku to make
> >them lighter to pick up. I make large slabs up tp 25" long and they can
> >be heavy at the end of tongs.
>
> Speaking of raku tongs, reminds me...during our last pitfire here, one pair
> of my raku tongs (bought from the Bailey catalog), broke at the pivot
> point. It seemed rather obvious, upon inspection, that the metal was
> rather thin there and would be prone to such a thing. Which brings me to
> my question. Anyone able to point me to a good source for heavy duty raku
> tongs? Any favorite suppliers of the "best" raku tongs? Or should I make
> my own, and if so, anyone able to offer clear instructions on how-to?
>
> Thanks to all and happy Father's Day to our all mud-lover tribe's dads
>
> Mishy
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Michelle Lowe on sun 18 jun 00
At 05:33 PM 6/17/2000 -0600, Marcia Selsor wrote:
>Jens,
>Yes you can add paper pulp to any clay body. I use it in my raku to make
>them lighter to pick up. I make large slabs up tp 25" long and they can
>be heavy at the end of tongs.
Speaking of raku tongs, reminds me...during our last pitfire here, one pair
of my raku tongs (bought from the Bailey catalog), broke at the pivot
point. It seemed rather obvious, upon inspection, that the metal was
rather thin there and would be prone to such a thing. Which brings me to
my question. Anyone able to point me to a good source for heavy duty raku
tongs? Any favorite suppliers of the "best" raku tongs? Or should I make
my own, and if so, anyone able to offer clear instructions on how-to?
Thanks to all and happy Father's Day to our all mud-lover tribe's dads
Mishy
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Don Jones on mon 19 jun 00
Michelle and others.
I too have been a victim of bad commercial tongs breaking and slipping. I
have broken many good pots that I have sat down and shaken my head over.
Even with good tongs bad things happen. My problems were solved when my
personal clay guru (James Martin of Bakersfield) suggested I just forget the
tongs. I'm not saying this is for everybody but my work was awkward to pick
up with tongs. He gave me two pairs of gloves. Cotton inner gloves and the
standard Raku gloves. You just take a breath and reach in and grab it.
It's hot but I don't think very dangerous. I haven't dropped a pot since.
The only drawback is sometimes you get a hand print on the glaze surface
that crackles differently or more tightly.
Don Jones
http://www.highfiber.com/~claysky
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>From: Michelle Lowe
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: raku tongs, suggestions? was Re: paperclay/raku
>Date: Sun, Jun 18, 2000, 7:10 AM
>
>At 05:33 PM 6/17/2000 -0600, Marcia Selsor wrote:
>>Jens,
>>Yes you can add paper pulp to any clay body. I use it in my raku to make
>>them lighter to pick up. I make large slabs up tp 25" long and they can
>>be heavy at the end of tongs.
>
>Speaking of raku tongs, reminds me...during our last pitfire here, one pair
>of my raku tongs (bought from the Bailey catalog), broke at the pivot
>point. It seemed rather obvious, upon inspection, that the metal was
>rather thin there and would be prone to such a thing. Which brings me to
>my question. Anyone able to point me to a good source for heavy duty raku
>tongs? Any favorite suppliers of the "best" raku tongs? Or should I make
>my own, and if so, anyone able to offer clear instructions on how-to?
>
>Thanks to all and happy Father's Day to our all mud-lover tribe's dads
>
>Mishy
>Michelle Lowe, potter in the Phoenix desert \|/ |
>mishlowe@amug.org -O- | |
>mishlowe@aztec.asu.edu /|\ | | |
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