Lily Krakowski on mon 21 oct 02
You have a plate on the wheel. When you cut it off there is a disk of clay
left on the wheel, and the disk is thicker in the middle than on its
outside? Is that it?
If so. When the wire is slackish it will rise in the middle and do that.
Solutions: go to an expensive gym, get really costly chic gym outfits, and
develop your upper body strength so you can hold the wire taught.
Realize you do not have that strength, throw the bottoms thicker to allow
for that thinner bottom in the middle.
I need to use this on bigger plates and--and I have whined about this on
other posts, my grip has been weakened considerably by nerve damage and
arthritis-- fasten one end of the wire to something fixed--make long wire
--uncoated leader wire, from fishing supply shop--and affix a good handle
for a good grip on the other end. Hold that end with BOTH hands and then
turn the wheel ever so slowly to cut the pot off.
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
gillian evison on tue 22 oct 02
What I do with my flat bottomed pots is to leave them on the bat overnight (
I have wooden bats) then the following morning put the bats back on the
wheel ( I have pins for my bats) , turn the wheel slowly, and slide an old
very sharp steel carving knife ( from a garage sale) under the pot. It comes
off beautifully without any strain on hands or wrists.
Jill in Vancouver, B.C.
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