BVCuma on fri 23 aug 02
Well we have four variations now...
Lee thinking of throwing on the other side of the planet
Ruth throwing in a reverse S ridge..
Ivor Throwing the ridge down
as opposed to making the rim into the foot
and flipping it upside right...
And the whole time I thought we were talking
about the original nut bar
who rigged his wheel from the ceiling
to take advantage of gravity to throw
his pots literally upside down
and in the process redefine the meaning=20
of mechanical strength of the clay...
if you can't beat gravity...work with it!
See CM for the article...
can't find it..its an old one.
Bruce
Rebecca Knight on fri 23 aug 02
Sheldon Carey was a potter famous for throwing upside down, with gravity.
Can't remember where he taught - KC? There's a picture in one of my old
books that I remember seeing a long time ago, but don't remember which book
(or maybe it was CM).|
>
> Well we have four variations now...
> Lee thinking of throwing on the other side of the planet
> Ruth throwing in a reverse S ridge..
> Ivor Throwing the ridge down
> as opposed to making the rim into the foot
> and flipping it upside right...
> And the whole time I thought we were talking
> about the original nut bar
> who rigged his wheel from the ceiling
> to take advantage of gravity to throw
> his pots literally upside down
> and in the process redefine the meaning
> of mechanical strength of the clay...
> if you can't beat gravity...work with it!
> See CM for the article...
> can't find it..its an old one.
>
> Bruce
>
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Veena Raghavan on sat 24 aug 02
Hi Ivor,
You did offer to demonstrate onward, didn't you? Would love to see it.
All the best.
Veena
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>But "Throwing Down", I doubt this very much. You would be hard pressed t=
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find a description of it in sufficient detail to reproduce the effect,
unless you had a lot of experience to fall back on and were willing to ha=
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colossal failure to begin with. It is a process which demands an act of
faith and a certain degree of recklessness, as well as the ability to
centre and cone up to the limits of the yield point of your clay and a hi=
gh
degree of muscular control. It is one of the processes many people would
believe to be impossible.
But it was a good idea to ask.
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Veena Raghavan
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Tom Buck on sat 24 aug 02
Bruce:
If you need to throw upside down for long tall forms, then perhaps
you can find Sheldon Carey's (Kansas) upside down wheel. Not sure if Mr
Carey is still with us. His innovations in clay were described by Glenn
Nelson in his book, Ceramics a potter's handbook, 3rd edition (1971). See
Page 170.
later
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