LOGAN OPLINGER on thu 10 oct 02
I would like to recommend to a friend of mine, who is teaching pottery classes at a local private high school, one or two books on the basic throwing process. Her budget for books is fairly limited.
I've searched several sites for descriptive information on books about wheel throwing, and more specifically, books which illustrate the throwing process with line drawings and cut-away photos showing hand positions relative to the clay cross-section. My only other source of information is the books at the university library here.
Most descriptions I have read, save for one, are relatively general, and do not give details about how the throwing process is illustrated. The one description is for "Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed", by Mary Chappelhow.
What book(s) would fellow Clayarters recommend?
Logan Oplinger
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Charles Moore on thu 10 oct 02
Hi, Logan.
I would like to recommend Don Davis' "Wheel-Thrown Ceramics." It has some
of the best explanations and illustrations that I have seen. His book
helped me understand the "physics" of certain forms (i.e., what you have to
throw to get what you want after trimming).
Charles Moore
Sacramento
> Most descriptions I have read, save for one, are relatively general, and
do not give details about how the throwing process is illustrated. The one
description is for "Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed", by Mary Chappelhow.
>
> What book(s) would fellow Clayarters recommend?
>
> Logan Oplinger
> Another Pacific Island,
> Latitude: 13.5, Longitude: -144.7
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Christena Schafale on thu 10 oct 02
Look for one by Elsbeth (sp?) Woody -- good cutaway photos. Helped me a
lot at the beginning.
Chris
At 04:00 PM 10/10/02 +1000, you wrote:
>I would like to recommend to a friend of mine, who is teaching pottery
>classes at a local private high school, one or two books on the basic
>throwing process. Her budget for books is fairly limited.
>
>I've searched several sites for descriptive information on books about
>wheel throwing, and more specifically, books which illustrate the throwing
>process with line drawings and cut-away photos showing hand positions
>relative to the clay cross-section. My only other source of information
>is the books at the university library here.
>
>Most descriptions I have read, save for one, are relatively general, and
>do not give details about how the throwing process is illustrated. The
>one description is for "Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed", by Mary
>Chappelhow.
>
>What book(s) would fellow Clayarters recommend?
>
>Logan Oplinger
>Another Pacific Island,
>Latitude: 13.5, Longitude: -144.7
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Working Potter on thu 10 oct 02
I always liked John colebeck's "TECHNIQUE OF THROWING" to reccommend to my
students.There should be plenty of used copies about and I believe it was
reissued.Also check out CM soft cover old classics if memory serves me there
was a very good one in that series, was it Carlton Ball?
loganoplinger@PACIFIC-OCEAN.COM writes:
> Most descriptions I have read, save for one, are relatively general, and do
> not give details about how the throwing process is illustrated
Dwiggins, Sandra (NIH/NCI) on thu 10 oct 02
This book is one of the best! I have most of them... Colbeck, Counts, etc.
Woody is better.
Sandy
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Subject: Re: Books on Throwing, Recommendations
Look for one by Elsbeth (sp?) Woody -- good cutaway photos. Helped me a
lot at the beginning.
Chris
At 04:00 PM 10/10/02 +1000, you wrote:
>I would like to recommend to a friend of mine, who is teaching pottery
>classes at a local private high school, one or two books on the basic
>throwing process. Her budget for books is fairly limited.
>
>I've searched several sites for descriptive information on books about
>wheel throwing, and more specifically, books which illustrate the throwing
>process with line drawings and cut-away photos showing hand positions
>relative to the clay cross-section. My only other source of information
>is the books at the university library here.
>
>Most descriptions I have read, save for one, are relatively general, and
>do not give details about how the throwing process is illustrated. The
>one description is for "Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed", by Mary
>Chappelhow.
>
>What book(s) would fellow Clayarters recommend?
>
>Logan Oplinger
>Another Pacific Island,
>Latitude: 13.5, Longitude: -144.7
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ASHPOTS@AOL.COM on thu 10 oct 02
The book Charles Counts wrote is super for beginners. I have told students
about it and they have got it online at book sellers. Its has lots of photos
of steps. Charles had step 1,2,3 etc. A T-Pot was step 15 .
I think Axner was talking to the Counts family about re publishing the book.
I hope that happens
Mark Issenberg
Lookout Mountain Pottery
Rising Fawn Ga
Roger Graham on sat 12 oct 02
I notice other postings recommending Elsbeth Woody's book "Pottery on the
Wheel". That was the one most helpful book I encountered when beginning.
Been there, done that. I think I read every potting book in the college
library at the time. This book was and is the best I've read, for those
first enchanting days playing in the mud.
An example: Where most such books offer you a page or two of advice on
throwing, and
half a dozen pictures, this one devotes 13 pages just to CENTERING,
including 16 clear excellent photographs. The rest of the book is just as
detailed.... "Throwing Cylindrical Shapes" takes 42 pages. "Throwing Open
Shapes" takes 14. Truly helpful stuff.
It's not a new book. First published in 1976. By the time I bought one, it
had gone through three reprintings. Must have been doing something right.
Roger Graham, near Gerringong, Australia.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~rogergraham
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