Lexxey Evans on mon 12 nov 01
"What is the most unusual or outrageous thing you use in your studio?"
How about this for unusual....
I use Huggie or other type elastic pullups to cushion my pots for travel.
Someone left some at my house after a visit and I tried it and they are
great for medium sized pots,,,which most of mine are.
I have some of my favorite ideas illustrated on my site at...
http://flummoxed.org/lexxey/whatever.htm
I love to share ideas and always read the "Ideas" section of magazines
first.
Lexxey....Alexis Evans
Potter and Gardener in Augusta GA
My site: http://www.flummoxed.org/lexxey/index.htm
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Janet Kaiser on tue 13 nov 01
I am probably going to regret this, but what are
Huggies and/or elastic pull-ups? Would this be nappies
(US = diapers) either for babies or adults?
Janet Kaiser - The tragic plane crash in N.Y.-Queens
taking up a lot of thought tonight... Again, wondering
about friends and family. Are they OK? Just goes to
show what anxiety Sept. 11th. has truly left us all
with. Not just the sadness at so many lives lost, but
"my god, here we go again..." and "will there be a
second one?" were probably the thoughts we all had and
asked ourselves as soon as we heard... Will it always
be like this? Please God, may this be the last tragedy
for New York in a long, long time.
The Chapel of Art . Capel Celfyddyd
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----- Original Message -----
> I use Huggie or other type elastic pullups to cushion
my pots for travel.
> Someone left some at my house after a visit and I
tried it and they are
> great for medium sized pots,,,which most of mine are.
Carole Rishel on tue 13 nov 01
Great website! You've got quite an imagination! Thanks for the tips!
Carole Rishel
Smithville, TX =20
=20
----- Original Message -----
From: Lexxey Evans
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:27 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: unusual tools
=20
"What is the most unusual or outrageous thing you use in your studio?"
How about this for unusual....
I use Huggie or other type elastic pullups to cushion my pots for travel.
Someone left some at my house after a visit and I tried it and they are
great for medium sized pots,,,which most of mine are.
I have some of my favorite ideas illustrated on my site at...
http://flummoxed.org/lexxey/whatever.htm
I love to share ideas and always read the "Ideas" section of magazines
first.
Lexxey....Alexis Evans
Potter and Gardener in Augusta GA
My site: http://www.flummoxed.org/lexxey/index.htm
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Sheron Roberts on tue 13 nov 01
Ditto on the kitchen wares now living
in the studio. Among these, various
cookie cutters, a ravioli wheel for textured
designs, a biscuit cutter (makes
perfect rounds) paint stripper for quick
drying, and great little handcarved=20
tools my visiting German guest made
this past summer. Wonderful for
carving and sculpting. =20
Also, great for sanding and smoothing,
drywall mesh (I think that is the correct
name, Vince can help out here). Used
this at one of Vince's workshops. You
can tear the little screens into suitable
sizes. When they are soft and worn
they still work great for knocking off the
dried burrs from signatures.
My most unusual tool is probably the=20
hand carved long handled tea stirrer
I purchased at Seagrove a few years
ago. The stirring stick has an egg
shaped ball on one end of a long
handle, all carved from one piece
of wood. Intended use, stirring iced
tea in a pitcher. What I use it for,
to make nice dimples on the outside
of pots. Or to smooth seams on the
inside of narrow tall pots or bottles.
Sometimes just to help reshape a pot
somewhat like a paddle and anvil.
Sheron in NC (very pleased with the
outcome of experimental "firing" in
my wood stove)
L. P. Skeen on tue 13 nov 01
OK, I have to know what the hell you're doing in a pottery with an electric
hair trimmer. Also, what is a bean peeler?
L
----- Original Message -----
From: Des & Jan Howard
Subject: Unusual tools
> Pear de-corer & bean peelers at the turning wheel.
> Electric hair trimmers, also at the turning wheel.
m markey on wed 14 nov 01
Hi Everybody!
I have rusty pieces of metal, and metal wire scraps, from the recycling
mill, as my unusual studio items.
I use the rusty metal to add texture to slabs, and to add iron to the
claybody. I use the copper and silver wire scraps to add a dramatic "melt"
effect on the sides of my wares. When I take my aluminum cans and plastic
bottles to the local recycle mill, I find this wire on the floor of the
mill.
Best wishes!
Mohabee NakedClay@hotmail.com
Getting more like November, in the Mojave Desert. I just donned long pants
for the first time in seven months. The hawks have returned, and were seen
soaring through the air currents earlier today.
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Des & Jan Howard on wed 14 nov 01
Lisa
Bean peelers have a plastic handle & a thin double blade that swivels,
used for running down the side of green beans to remove the "string",
also used as potato/carrot peelers.
I just got a mental picture of you sitting there with a
kidney/navy/soy bean wondering "Huh?"
The hair trimmers have loops of "D" section high tensile wire
(OK, they're hair pins!) fastened to the reciprocating mechanism,
one gives an up/down movement, the other gives a side to side
movement, used for chattering pots. The chattered pots on our
site show some early work done with the trimmers.
Des
"L. P. Skeen" wrote:
> OK, I have to know what the hell you're doing in a pottery with an electric
> hair trimmer. Also, what is a bean peeler?
--
Des & Jan Howard
Lue Pottery
LUE NSW 2850
Australia
Ph/Fax 02 6373 6419
http://www.luepottery.hwy.com.au
Anita M. Swan on wed 14 nov 01
My two favorite texture tools: an old, moldly dried out gourd that has bumps all
over it and the many sizes of pine branches - strip the needles off and use it like
a tiny rolling pin - cool texture!
Des & Jan Howard on wed 14 nov 01
"What is the most unusual or outrageous thing you use in your studio?"
Among other things:
Pear de-corer & bean peelers at the turning wheel.
Electric hair trimmers, also at the turning wheel.
Dental amalgam mixer in the glazing section.
Car towball covered with a tennis ball with a paint roller handle next to the
jigger.
Des
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Lue Pottery
LUE NSW 2850
Australia
Ph/Fax 02 6373 6419
http://www.luepottery.hwy.com.au
Russel Fouts on thu 15 nov 01
Fred,
>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford Dictionary
please copy). <<
I know you put that out there just so someone would ask, so, I'm
asking...
WHAT are you talking about? ;-)
Russel (Baffled) in Brussels
-----------------------------
--
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Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75
Http://www.mypots.com
http://www.Japan-Net.ne.jp/~iwcat
"There is a theory which states that
if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the universe is for and why it's here,
it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizzarly
inexplicable."
"There is another theory which states
that this has already happened!"
Douglas Adams' The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Russel Fouts on thu 15 nov 01
I wanted to be able to texture the insides of my bowls so I made "ball
roulettes". I start with a solid ball of clay about 500g, roll it over
something to give it an over-all pattern. You can also let it stiffen up
and then carve it. Go Crazy.
When it's fired, low bisque, you just roll it around inside whatever you
want to texture. Works great on the outside as well for round stuff.
Roll in a circular pattern (think loop, loop, loop)
This is also one for the great Rule Book; "You can't fire solid stuff".
I do it all the time.
The water heater for my house is in my studio and the waist high top
makes a nice warming table. I put the solid stuff on that and put a
stiff plastic bag over it (clay bag, self standing). Turn the piece from
time to time and it will dry out thoroughly and fairly quickly (for
solid stuff). Got the idea from reading Cameron Harman's "Kiln and
Drier"
Fire over night just below 100c to get all the water out, then you can
go faster.
Here I have a question. I think that after all the "water smoking"
described above, you should be able to fire it normally to temp (maybe a
little slower). But I think there is another point you have to watch,
somewhere between 250c and 300c(?) for the chemically bonded water to
burn out. Could this boil out fast enough to cause the piece to explode?
I'm not worried about cracking from stress. The kiln is pretty empty and
small (only the lower section of my break-down kiln). This clay doesn't
crack under those circumstances.
And who was it who mentioned a PVC pipe saw as a cutting wire? Works
great, can't break it, been using one for years.
Russel
--
Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75
Http://www.mypots.com
http://www.Japan-Net.ne.jp/~iwcat
"There is a theory which states that
if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the universe is for and why it's here,
it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizzarly
inexplicable."
"There is another theory which states
that this has already happened!"
Douglas Adams' The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fredrick Paget on thu 15 nov 01
>Fred,
>
>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford Dictionary
>>please copy). <<
>
>I know you put that out there just so someone would ask, so, I'm
>asking...
>
>WHAT are you talking about? ;-)
>
>Russel (Baffled) in Brussels
Good-now I know I have an audience of at least one.
They are tools made from a roundish object on the end of a stick. We made
some of spherical 2 cm. lead fishing sinkers, some from filling an empty
and relaxed balloon with plaster, some from fishing bobbers filled with
sand and some from tennis balls both plain and sand filled. Also gear shift
knob. A doorknob.
Now you have to ask," what are they used for"?
I will spare you -
They are used in hand building hollow objects as paddles to expand the
clay. We did not know what to call them so someone started calling them
bonkers because they go "bonk, bonk"when they are used to hit the clay.
Next to be made are Osama ben Laden bonkers with red and white handle and
white stars on the blue balloon filled with plaster. These will probably be
called Ouchers. Maybe not, as I bet they say something else over there.
Fred
From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
claybair on fri 16 nov 01
Baby bottle brushes, tooth brushes, a brush made from bamboo and my
daughters hair,
golf ball, wood/linoleum cutting tools, dental tools, driftwood, cedar bark,
anything with a texture is fair game for the studio, cookie cutters, steak
knives, mesh bags, leaves, rocks, stones, sea shells, starfish, branches,
bamboo, my dad's drill and some old hammers and screwdrivers, a knife my
great uncle sharpened till there is hardly anything left, a stool my dad
made for me a year before he died........... I have surrounded myself with
tools and items that evoke fond memories and potential for the future. I
guess I have a substitute for comfort food.... a comfort studio! Gee maybe I
can lose some weight on a comfort studio diet!
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
The toilet bowl brushes are great for scrubbing stuff in the studio too -
especially cleaning the splashpan. 'Nita
Carole Fox wrote:
> Well- I can't beat the post about condoms- but haven't seen any one
confess to having toilet bowl brushes in their studio. They make great glaze
bucket stirrers.
> Carole Fox
> Elkton, MD
> cfox@dca.net
>
The Chapel of Art on fri 16 nov 01
Glad you asked, Russel, because I was too shy... What
with never having experienced using what he described
to...
1. bonk (verb): course slang for sexual intercourse
2. Bonkers (noun, plural): persons who partake in 1.
I don't think it is what Fred meant though... Or was
it...? $5 each... Nah... Probably not...
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art . Capel Celfyddyd
Home of The International Potters' Path
8 Marine Crescent . Criccieth LL52 0EA
Wales . GB . United Kingdom
Tel: (01766) 523570
E-mail: postbox@the-coa.org.uk
URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
Steve Mills on fri 16 nov 01
Oxford English Dictionary: Bonkers adjective (slang) crazy
UK everyday Dictionary of life: to Bonk adj. (slang) have sex. Bonkers
collective noun (slang) group sex!
Steve
Bath
UK
In message , Russel Fouts writes
>Fred,
>
>>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford Diction=
>ary
>please copy). <<
>
>I know you put that out there just so someone would ask, so, I'm
>asking...
>
>WHAT are you talking about? ;-)
>
>Russel (Baffled) in Brussels
>
> -----------------------------
>--
>
> Russel Fouts
> Mes Potes & Mes Pots
> Brussels, Belgium
> Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
> Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75
> Http://www.mypots.com
> http://www.Japan-Net.ne.jp/~iwcat
>
> "There is a theory which states that
> if ever anyone discovers exactly what
> the universe is for and why it's here,
> it will instantly disappear and be
> replaced by something even more bizzarly
> inexplicable."
>
> "There is another theory which states
> that this has already happened!"
>
> Douglas Adams' The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
--
Steve Mills
Bath
UK
pammyam on fri 16 nov 01
Hmmm. That puts a new slant on the Bonkers cat treats that
we have in the States.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mills"
To:
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Unusual Tools
: Oxford English Dictionary: Bonkers adjective (slang) crazy
: UK everyday Dictionary of life: to Bonk adj. (slang) have
sex. Bonkers
: collective noun (slang) group sex!
:
: Steve
: Bath
: UK
:
Carole Fox on fri 16 nov 01
Well- I can't beat the post about condoms- but haven't seen any one =
confess to having toilet bowl brushes in their studio. They make great =
glaze bucket stirrers.
Carole Fox
Elkton, MD
cfox@dca.net
Fredrick Paget on fri 16 nov 01
It looks like I will have to find another name for them if I want to write
a magazine article about them .
This reminds me of a Netherlands cherry brandy brandnamed Focking that has
to be relabeled Hocking in the states. Or the Chevy Nova. ( Spanish: no va
= doesn't go).
Fred
>Oxford English Dictionary: Bonkers adjective (slang) crazy
>UK everyday Dictionary of life: to Bonk adj. (slang) have sex. Bonkers
>collective noun (slang) group sex!
>
>Steve
>Bath
>UK
>
>In message: Fred writes:
>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford
>>Dictionary please copy). <<
From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
Anji Henderson on fri 16 nov 01
Ummm ok I haven't been reading all the posts on this
topic .. But... I am a little confused since if it
works, it's a pottery tool to me...
Lets see-
A drink mixer (small glaze containers)
many chop sticks (slip, grooves, poking-people or
pots, throwing when nessacary, I meant across the room
or at someone)
knitting needles (moving wet things to the back of the
table, clearing "t" pot holes)
spackeling tools (texture)
of course the blender (note I only know some that are
duplicate)
Wine rack (well duhh)
Bottle opener (duhh 2, oh wait was this list limited
to use on the clay?? Well it is used indirectly
sometimes)
spatula (scoping up wet minis durring throwing or
glazing)
bowl scraper (everything scraper, wet and dry)
Window squegie (smoothing large slabs after rolling)
large bolts (texture, hey throwing in place of
chopsticks might be a good idea)
dowels (not only for rolling, holding large slab
pieced up with carpet foam)
Oh, carpet foam (the above, and packing things for
transport like greenware glaze ware half made demo
pieces)
stray things from cars (texture)
copper pipe (hole cutter and whacker...)
Bits and pieces of bark and crazy found objects
(texture again)
ostrich feathers (slip again, where did they come from
anyway??)
Drill bits (small holes)
the famous green scrubbies
refridgerator (drying cabenet)
And a genuine ice box (drying cabenet)
Spoons (for what ever, mostly to get colorants out of
the difficult jars with the small necks, that some
dummy put them in, woops thats me)
I bet I could make the list double if I just go look,
but I aint gona... Like I said it if works for anyting
keep it in the studio..... :)
Anji
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L. P. Skeen on fri 16 nov 01
Ok, so somebody has been creating group sex with plaster filled balloons,
and SELLING same in a pottery studio? Oy vey.
L
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Mills
Subject: Re: Unusual Tools
> Oxford English Dictionary: Bonkers adjective (slang) crazy
> UK everyday Dictionary of life: to Bonk adj. (slang) have sex. Bonkers
> collective noun (slang) group sex!
> In message , Russel Fouts writes
> >Fred,
> >
> >>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford
Diction=
> >ary please copy). <<
Anita M. Swan on fri 16 nov 01
The toilet bowl brushes are great for scrubbing stuff in the studio too - especially cleaning the splashpan. 'Nita
Carole Fox wrote:
> Well- I can't beat the post about condoms- but haven't seen any one confess to having toilet bowl brushes in their studio. They make great glaze bucket stirrers.
> Carole Fox
> Elkton, MD
> cfox@dca.net
>
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Anita M. Swan on fri 16 nov 01
Oh, and I use the window squeegee on a long pole to clean the floor - Just wet down
the cement floor, then squeegee everything to the drain in the middle. The
previous owner used the building as a dog kennel and left the squeegee plus some
kind of scraper thingy that may have been a pooper-scoop? It loosens the harden
clay around the wheel before I use the squeegee. (Don't worry, all the stuff,
including the floor, was soaked in bleach before we moved in - the Clorox fumes
were wicked for the first 6 months) As for 'bark and found objects for texture' I
have a collection of sticks. Every so often my husband will come down to the
studio and try to clean up: "What's this pile of sticks?" he says. "Those are my
sticks! Don't touch my sticks! I NEED my sticks!" He just walks back out,
shaking his head. ;-)) 'Nita
John Baymore on sat 17 nov 01
- but haven't seen any one confess to having toilet bowl brushes in their=
studio. They make great =
glaze bucket stirrers.
Carole,
I use these too. New, of course . I get commercial grade ones from a=
business supply company that are heavy duty (made for professionals )
and have thick reinforced handles that resemble fiberglass. Strong, rot
proof, and last forever. I mix my glazes in 30 gal garbage cans batches
and just leave one brush suspended in each bucket.
Best,
..............................john
John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
22 Riverbend Way
Wilton, NH 03086 USA
603-654-2752 (s)
800-900-1110 (s)
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Imzadi D. on sat 17 nov 01
gayle@CLAYBAIR.COM writes:
<< Gee maybe I
can lose some weight on a comfort studio diet! >>
Just don't move condoms to your studio, you'll be pregnant by next June!
m markey on sat 17 nov 01
Hi Fred!
There's a Thai Restaurant in San Francisco, which recently changed its name,
from "Fucket Thai Restaurant" to "SF Thai Restaurant," for the same reason,
I'm sure!
Best wishes!
Mohabee NakedClay@hotmail.com
========================================
It looks like I will have to find another name for them if I want to write
a magazine article about them .
This reminds me of a Netherlands cherry brandy brandnamed Focking that has
to be relabeled Hocking in the states. Or the Chevy Nova. ( Spanish: no va
= doesn't go).
Fred
>Oxford English Dictionary: Bonkers adjective (slang) crazy
>UK everyday Dictionary of life: to Bonk adj. (slang) have sex. Bonkers
>collective noun (slang) group sex!
>
>Steve
>Bath
>UK
>
>In message: Fred writes:
>> We have been going bonkers (adj.) over Bonkers ( noun) (Oxford
>>Dictionary please copy). <<
From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
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jean mitton on mon 10 dec 01
Note: "Tap tap" on center fans press delete!
Years ago, I inherited from somewhere an obselete three part ball =
jointed workshop lamp.
To this I substituted a pointer on the lamp arm and fastened the lamp =
base to the side of the splash pan.
This makes an ideal quick aid for checking that even odd shapes are =
central, and beats pointers stuck in clay and in my case the "tap tap" =
which I am sorry to say I have not mastered.
Ron Mitton
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