Ann Brink on sat 22 feb 03
Hi Tony,
I'm tempted to say she is using too much water, but never mind. I have one
of those Brent kick wheels made from a kit, plywood chassis, etc, and the
first thing we did was to glue a black rubber floormat to the kick wheel.
It's the kind with little square bumps, and provides a wonderful non-slip
surface. I don't use a splash pan, but if there is excess water at some
point, it flies off elsewhere, not down onto the kicking surface.
Ann Brink, thinking about the 3000 NCECA participants, according to Merrie.
This will be my first time to go....I may feel overwhelmed and confused,
but that's ok- I'm eager to experience the whole thing and meet Clayarters.
> I've tried searching everywhere and I can't seem to find a resolution
> for this. My wife (a potter for 2 or 3 years now) was given a Brent
> Model J kickwheel. She loves throwing on it, but the water dripping from
> the splash pan on to the wheel makes it very slick and almost impossible
> to work with. Has anyone else run into this problem? And if so, what do
> you do about it? Thanks in advance, Tony McCallie
>
>
Tony McCallie on sat 22 feb 03
I've tried searching everywhere and I can't seem to find a resolution
for this. My wife (a potter for 2 or 3 years now) was given a Brent
Model J kickwheel. She loves throwing on it, but the water dripping from
the splash pan on to the wheel makes it very slick and almost impossible
to work with. Has anyone else run into this problem? And if so, what do
you do about it? Thanks in advance, Tony McCallie
Lily Krakowski on sun 23 feb 03
As an advocate of dry throwing, may I suggest that Mrs McCallie stop
throwing in a muddle puddle. WHY is there ANY water in the splash pan? I
looked in my Bailey catalog, the Brent kickwheels have a little table, so
she should put her water bowl there. Yes, some drips will get in the splash
pan, I suggest she park a couple of fat sponges cut to shape in there, till
she learns to throw real dry.
As someone who learned to throw on a kickwheel that HAD no splash pan, I
learned that I was not a robin taking a puddle-bath, but a potter with skin
that chaps easily! So I learned to throw quite dry, and learned to throw
drier as I went along. And I wish manufacturers would rename splash pans
"trimming catchers" !!! Which is what they should be.
As to the slippery wheel. There are both strips and "cute" patterns of some
anti-skid material you are supposed to paste in your bathtub to prevent
going head over teakettle. They are soap and hair catchers in the tub, and
on a wheel they catch clay dust. But they do add traction, and do prevent
slipping....
Tony McCallie writes:
> I've tried searching everywhere and I can't seem to find a resolution
> for this. My wife (a potter for 2 or 3 years now) was given a Brent
> Model J kickwheel. She loves throwing on it, but the water dripping from
> the splash pan on to the wheel makes it very slick and almost impossible
> to work with. Has anyone else run into this problem? And if so, what do
> you do about it? Thanks in advance, Tony McCallie
>
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Russel Fouts on sun 23 feb 03
Tony,
>> I've tried searching everywhere and I can't seem to find a resolution for this. My wife (a potter for 2 or 3 years now) was given a Brent Model J kickwheel. She loves throwing on it, but the water dripping from the splash pan on to the wheel makes it very slick and almost impossible
to work with. Has anyone else run into this problem? And if so, what do
you do about it? <<
This may or may not help your problem. I learned to throw on brent kick
wheels back in the 70's, I don't remember if they were J's or not. They
were big and yellow, nice wheels.
Anyway, I took a throwing workshop with John Colbeck (great teacher) at
Pietro Maddalena's "La Meridiana" pottery a couple of summers ago.
Pietro's kick wheels were modeled after the same brents we used in
school but without any splash pan.
John, told us to take a big sponge and put it on the worktable so it
just touched the rim of the spinning wheel head. I placed mine so that
the direction of the spin was into the sponge but other did it
differently. I don't think it makes much difference.
It worked a treat, no drips. You just have to remember to squeeze it out
every so often. I don't use excessive amounts of water and I only had to
squeeze it out twice a day.
Otherwise, she could learn to throw drier. ;-)
Russel
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