Snail Scott on tue 29 oct 02
At 01:49 PM 10/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
>The typical blocky German ironstone teapot...the spout had
>been pierced with a toothpick sized rod, beginning underneath the pouring
>end of the spout..
>Is this news to anyone else?
There was an extensive thread on this topic
not long ago, including 'how-to' suggestions.
Try the archives, using words like 'dripless'.
There was quite a lot of discussion at the time.
-Snail
Martin Howard on wed 30 oct 02
I put details of this design on Clayart a few months ago.
The one problem is how to make the hole small enough.
I intend to test threading through some thread or thin string at leather
hard stage.
The thread will (should) burn out in firing and just leave a nice capillary
sized hole. Then it needs to be protected from glaze of course.
Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
Updated 6th July 2002
William Lucius on thu 31 oct 02
Thanks for the gentle reminder - CHECK THE ARCHIVES!. Thanks to Martin for
the lead on how to find the posts about teapot spout holes. And to everyone
else. No, I did not read the article (at least that is how my wife
translated the German phrase) and no, I did not take a picture. In sum, the
hole in the teapot spout seems to have a noble history in England and Japan,
is not without problems, and is probably only one of many ways to discourage
the final drip (a problem which as one post mentioned can lead a potter to
abandon making teapots forever). Now I just need to figure out how to make
the hole in my bone dry, ready-to-bisque teapots to support my need for
instant gratification.
William A. Lucius, Board President
Institute for Archaeological Ceramic Research
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Janet Kaiser on thu 31 oct 02
I sincerely trust you are joking, William? No way are you going to
successfully bore a hole in the spout of a bone dry teapot, although you
may just manage to "saw" the requisite channel without damage. Why not just
fire what you have and go on to experiment with fresher work?
One reservation I have on the hole 'n' groove method of stopping drips... I
have only ever seen it on manufactured (mould-made) teapots of the
straight-lipped sort. The "traditional" little turn-down on a teapot spout
combined with the right spout position in relation to the level of the
liquid (tea) should help to achieve exactly the same effect...
Good luck with your experiments!
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser
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>Now I just need to figure out how to make
>the hole in my bone dry, ready-to-bisque teapots.
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art =95 Capel Celfyddyd
8 Marine Crescent, Criccieth LL52 0EA, Wales, UK
Tel: 01766-523570 URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
Martin Howard on fri 1 nov 02
William posts:-
the hole in my bone dry, ready-to-bisque teapots to support my need for
instant gratification.>
Perhaps heat the threaded needle?
After you have dealt with bone dry clay you will find a way of making the
hole in fired teapots?
And then set up a teapot hospital?
Sounds like a good financial business there for someone.
Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
Updated 6th July 2002
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