Leava Major on wed 14 feb 01
I am trying to design a soapdish which will allow
maximum exposure to the air for the soap.And it
will be a wholesale production item so it needs to
be time thrifty as well.
Have spent months doing all sorts of soapdishes
with varied results,most of which are lovely for
retail sales but too demanding for production
work.
As I lay in bed at nite working the design out in
my head,I keep seeing a variation of a Ruffles
potato chip with the whole soapdish wavy.I am
planning to do the prototypes over dowels secured
to sheetrock and handform them.
But I was wondering if an extruder would work for
these do you think? I don't have one
but since dh and I both have wanted one for
years,would like to get one.I have seen them in
catalogs and the extender boxes look like they
would make a wide enough piece.
So can you make the dies yourself and does the
design I am thinking of sound suited to being made
with an extruder? Simple slab,wavy all the way???
thanx,Leava
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Carol Sandberg on wed 14 feb 01
Leava,
You could make a die for an extruder which would work nicely for the wavy
slab you refer to, but if you are talking about reproducing the soapdishes
for wholesale sales, a better way to repeat your final prototype would be to
make a pressmold out of plaster. I would go about it by making a die with
wavy texture which pleased me, extrude wavy slabs, play with them until I
found a form/shape which I felt worked, and then use it as a prototype for
the plaster pressmold. You could also experiment with available corrugated
commercial materials (Plexiglas, cardboard, etc.) to roll clay over and
sidestep the extruder.
Good Luck,
Carol, in Indiana
On Feb 14,2001 at 11:43 AM Leava Major wrote:
> I am trying to design a soapdish which will allow maximum exposure to the
air for the soap.And it will be a wholesale production item so it needs to
be time thrifty as well.
> I keep seeing a variation of a Ruffles potato chip with the whole soapdish
wavy.I am planning to do the prototypes over dowels secured to
sheetrock and handform them.
> But I was wondering if an extruder would work can you make the dies
yourself and does the design I am thinking of sound suited to being made
with an extruder? Simple slab,wavy all the way???
Cindy Strnad on wed 14 feb 01
Leava,
This sounds like a perfect extruder project. I think I will try it. :)
Cindy Strnad
Earthen Vessels Pottery
RR 1, Box 51
Custer, SD 57730
USA
earthenv@gwtc.net
http://www.earthenvesselssd.com
Paul Lewing on wed 14 feb 01
Leava Major wrote:
> As I lay in bed at nite working the design out in
> my head,I keep seeing a variation of a Ruffles
> potato chip with the whole soapdish wavy.
If you get a copy of "Extruded Ceramics" by Diana Pancioli, and look on
page 94, you'll see a picture of two soapdishes I've made for years on
my extruder. One of them I've always described as "a Ruffles potato
chip on legs". Nothing new under the sun, you know.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Greg Lamont on wed 14 feb 01
Leava,
Sure it can be done with an extruder. I recommend that you get yourself
over to your library, bookstore or some other such source for recently
published books and take a look at both of the new books about extruding,
one by Diana Pancioli and one by Daryl Baird. Diana's book has specific
projects and the die shapes used to create them, Both books tell you how
to make your own extruder, if you opt to go that route rather than buying a
commercial extruder, and how to make dies. Both are beautiful books and
complementary to each other and are worth purchasing.
Greg
----Original Message-----
From: Leava Major
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Extruder Question......
>I am trying to design a soapdish which will allow
>maximum exposure to the air for the soap.And it
>will be a wholesale production item so it needs to
>be time thrifty as well.
>Have spent months doing all sorts of soapdishes
>with varied results,most of which are lovely for
>retail sales but too demanding for production
>work.
>
>As I lay in bed at nite working the design out in
>my head,I keep seeing a variation of a Ruffles
>potato chip with the whole soapdish wavy.I am
>planning to do the prototypes over dowels secured
>to sheetrock and handform them.
>
>But I was wondering if an extruder would work for
>these do you think? I don't have one
>but since dh and I both have wanted one for
>years,would like to get one.I have seen them in
>catalogs and the extender boxes look like they
>would make a wide enough piece.
>So can you make the dies yourself and does the
>design I am thinking of sound suited to being made
>with an extruder? Simple slab,wavy all the way???
>thanx,Leava
>
>--
>
>Leava Major,Honeysuckle Hollow,Handcrafted
>Pottery,Paper and Soaps
>FRAGMENTS image,word tiles & buttons for
>stampers,collage artists and crafters
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=785087&a=9304438
>
>SOAPTILES...handcrafted stoneware soapdishes &
>SOAPER PINS AND EARRINGS
>MARKERS...garden markers and signs CUSTOM ORDERS
>IN CLAY WELCOME
>
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