WHew536674@CS.COM on sat 19 aug 00
Maybe I missed something here about slate wedging tables. Caught mention of
it in Janet's post. She mentioned that a Welsh slate wedging table, although
expensive, was the best. Does it have to be Welsh slate, how about slate
from Mexico? Has anyone ever used one? What are the advantages over
plaster, other than lasting longer? Just curious because I live next to
Mexico and probably could get a pretty big slab pretty reasonable.
Thanks,
Joyce
Mission, TX
Diane Mead on sun 20 aug 00
Particle board for us was a trouble when
we got a junkier kind that had some
splinters (ow)
But I imagine the good stuff--best grade--works
much better than that junkier kind we had
In grad school we mixed etching inks and oils
on slate (for painting and intaglio)
but I always preferred the canvas wedging table for clay
--once we had old (expensive!!!) linen
that someone used to recover after the canvas wore out---
ridiculously nice (and what a waste, i thought--
would've made a really nice landscape...._)
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Dannon Rhudy on sun 20 aug 00
>Maybe I missed something here about slate wedging tables.
.... have to be Welsh slate, how about slate
>from Mexico? Has anyone ever used one? ....
We had slate wedging tables in grad school (new to me, had
always used canvas before). They worked ok, really wet clay
would stick a bit. Liked them, though - easy to clean and
kept lots of dust out of the air. Craig Martell just built
one, I believe. Maybe he'll report.
I expect that for wedging purposes, slate is slate.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
Penni Stoddart on sun 20 aug 00
I missed the original discussion altogether HOWEVER I
just wanted to put my two cents in! I now use a
partical board as my work surface. I am a hobby potter
so this may make a difference as my wedging table is
my work bench is my glaze bench etc etc.
I have found the partical board to work very well. It
cleans easily and the clay doesn't stick to it too
much (unless both are very wet). It is tacked onto the
end of my husband's work bench in his garage, I mean
my, studio.
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Les Crimp on mon 21 aug 00
I have a slate wedging table in my studio and it works just great.
The price was right, too ! I went to a store that sells billiard tables and
enquired about the possiblity of a chipped or cracked slate from one of
their tables. The man took me out to the back of the store and showed me
several slabs of slate that were hardly damaged at all but could not be used
for pool or billiards for obvious reasons. He said, "Help yourself." -
and I did.
Not only does it work well but it is solid and you can slam down lumps of
clay with no problems.
Dannon is correct in her observation that clay that is too wet has a
tendency to stick a little. No big deal !!!
Les Crimp in Nanoose Bay, B.C. (Vancouver Island )
lcrimp@home.com
tgschs10 on mon 21 aug 00
Dannon,
I have used a marble top for wedging for many years; it works wonderfully
well except for really wet clay; it is also easy to clean and very durable.
Tom Sawyer
tgschs10@msn.com
Craig Martell on mon 21 aug 00
Hi:
Dannon's correct, I did just build a new wedging table. The other one gave
up after only 25 yrs of pounding, kneading, leaning etc.
I used Rio Grande slate tiles from Brazil. Nice surface to work on with
very little dust and easy to clean.
There have been discussions on wedging tables in the past and I'll bet the
archives would be a good place to check this topic out.
later, Craig Martell in Oregon
Steve Mills on mon 21 aug 00
In message , WHew536674@CS.COM writes
>Maybe I missed something here about slate wedging tables. Caught mention of
>it in Janet's post. She mentioned that a Welsh slate wedging table, although
>expensive, was the best.
I too use a slate workbench/wedging table, it started life as a half
size billiard table, it's heavy, smoooooooth, and slightly absorbent, I
don't like a wedging table with too much "suck"(!), just enough to
release the clay reasonably easily. My antipathy towards plaster in a
pottery is fairly well known, so I dry slops on VERY absorbent mica
based insulation board which stacks out of the way when not in use.
All in all I love Slate.
Steve
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Steve Mills
Bath
UK
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