Joyce Lee on sun 27 oct 02
I know others have said it, but I have
to add my approval for my heavy,
blue Shimpo banding wheel. Jim,
it's worth the money. It IS heavy for
moving about often, so I leave mine
out in its own space all the time ..... just as I leave my wheel in its =
space ... and my
extruder.=20
The banding wheel was
purchased on a whim and given to
me by #1 Support Person as an anniversary gift after I'd been exploring
and stumbling through the baby steps
of being a newbie both to clay and to
art for awhile and was considering giving
up. Actually, this gift
was a double whammy since #1 SP
was also acknowledging and demonstrating acceptance for the new
importance of clay in my life .... that
I'd prefer a banding wheel over
jewelry. =20
Need I say that I place great value
on my Shimpo banding wheel. You'll
like it, too, Jim.
Joyce
In the Mojave where Mark Issenberg's
version of Bean Soup is simmering
on the back burner ... that plus cornbread,
my mandarin orange salad from the
Clayart Cookbook ..... and Figgy Pudding
a neighbor sent over in appreciation for
my searching the net and finding tons
of figgy pudding recipes for her - after
she'd searched her own cookbooks=20
"for months" (took less than five minutes
to find many on the net) ..... should do it
for a football lunch. AND Mojave Red
beer ...... thanks, Mark ... found the soup
on your website.
mel jacobson on wed 29 jun 05
a good heavy banding wheel is a thing of beauty.
the lockerbie is a great bander.
it is like their wheel...big and strong.
they have short and a tall.
most people would have a good time
taking their banding wheel apart...add some
oil and spin it. a few drops of wd40 or a
motor oil will make that hole and stem a piston.
then it will just turn great.
i find them all the time at art centers and they
do not turn. i oil them....and brand new.
even the old thin aluminum amoco ones.
i have added metal plates to the top of small amoco
banders and they really work...or add a batt with some
contact cement. they just need a bit of weight...and a few
screws to a table top. mount them if they are light.
there really is a trick to a banding wheel.
you use the thumb of your off hand...(remember i am a lefty)
and spin the base with it. your working hand tap centers the
piece, and then you use your brush etc with your working hand.
the off thumb controls the speed and motion. spinning a bander
like a wheel is not very controllable. i like the thumb action.
i have a large three foot circle of counter top..
mounted on two bearings under my working counter.
it is about two inches off the counter.
it spins like a top. i use it for waxing, decoration.
it has markings of half and quarter and sixteenths.
kurt had it years ago and was getting rid of it...i mounted
in on the work bench.
kick wheels are great banders. slow, precise...the foot just
moves it along. i have a leech at the farm. several people had
a ball this summer kicking away. they pretended to be warren mackenzie.
the pots did not look like his though.
the problem that lee is having is that no one understands that
a korean wheel is a throwing wheel.
it has a flywheel.
slow, and easy. i have never used one.
seen many.
kawai used one. his is still in his studio.
from mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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