Craig Edwards on sun 21 apr 02
Hello all;
I've been watching this thread about throwing and wheel direction. I started
throwing clock-wise (Left handed) and then switched for all the reasoned
already mentioned. I never thought about the direction I was wedging,
clockwise (Left handed).
Then last year I was working with another potter and he noticed that I was
wedging left handed. Svend had a teacher who was a lefty and passed wedging
clockwise on to him.
He clained that because of it there was a greater chance of the bottoms of
pots cracking and was more carefull because of it.
Any thoughts on this .
Craig Edwards
New London MN
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Dannon Rhudy on mon 22 apr 02
..... noticed that I was
>wedging left handed....>He clained that because of it there was a greater
chance of the bottoms of pots cracking...
I wedge "left handed". I have no problems with s-cracks. Either
it does not make any difference, or there is an advantage in left-
handed spiral wedging. I suspect some small advantage, as others
who wedge that way that I've known aren't troubled by s-cracks
either. Either way, I would not worry about it if I were you.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
LOGAN OPLINGER on wed 24 apr 02
Hi All,
I'm a righty (not bragging). In my beginning, before I learned to throw on
the wheel, I learned to spiral wedge from a lefty to prepare clay for hand
building. The pattern had been set. When I began to throw, someone
commented about my wedging in the wrong direction. What should I do?
Instead of re-learning to wedge, I just placed the clay cone upside down on
the wheel to reverse the spiral direction. This also solved a problem with
"S" cracking.
Logan Oplinger
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