clennell on tue 24 jun 03
Sour Cherry Pottery
> Second question:
> Have any of you changed your manual Bailey
> slab roller to an electric slab roller? If so, tell
> me about it, please ..... it'll help if you speak
> to me as if I
> were about 4th grade level.... Seems as if
> CPA Bonnie may have changed her Bailey,
> but then again she may have purchased the
> electric in the first place since she's a very
> smart and practical lady, whoops, excuse me,
> female or maybe just woman .... Bonnie
Dear Joyce: It seems to me people buy slab rollers that really don't need
them. sheila does alot of slab rolling. I said lets get a slab roller!!!!!
She said that's a really good idea Tony, but I don't want one! she prefers
to roll slabs with a rolling pin and some sticks to guage thickness. If you
are in big time production then by all means, but otherwise it'll end being
a very expensive glazing table..
cheers,
Tony
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
clennell@vaxxine.com
Kathi LeSueur on tue 24 jun 03
rogerk1941@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> I have learned... to throw out slabs on
> a canvas work surface to approximate
> thickness, then to go to sticks and rolling pin to finish. This has an
> advantage: it makes it easier to rotate the
> direction of the shear that occurs in the rolling process, so that the
> shrinkage on drying will be more uniform,
> rather than being greatest along the axis of greatest shear
> (perpendicular to the axis of the roller)........
>
> Of course, in heavy production, the way to go would be to use a slab
> roller and compensate for the non-uniformity
> of shrinkage by modifying the layout.>>>
I use a Bailey electric to make slabware. I make lots of slabware, from
small 4" bread and butters for my slab dinnerware to large platters that
are almost 24" across. I've never experienced this uneven shrinkage
problem. Perhaps it's the machine, perhaps it's the clay, or perhaps
it's careful drying. But this is just not a problem I've ever seen. Have
others?
Kathi
>
>
Elizabeth Priddy on tue 24 jun 03
I rarely use mine. I throw freeform slabs on a wedging table. The only thing i really use it for slabs that need compression on both sides.
clennell wrote:Sour Cherry Pottery
Dear Joyce: It seems to me people buy slab rollers that really don't need
them. sheila does alot of slab rolling. I said lets get a slab roller!!!!!
She said that's a really good idea Tony, but I don't want one!
Elizabeth Priddy
www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
Beaufort, NC
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John Rodgers on tue 24 jun 03
Tony, you are right on.
It's funny about how things work sometimes. I have one of the smaller
Brent Slab Rollers. It serves as a table most of the time. Why? I simply
find it more convenient in my work to use a rolling pin and the sticks.
I'm not into heavy production of slab work, otherwise it might get more
use. But most of my slab work is to produce decorative elements and I
need only a few pieces at a time. So, the rolling pin and the sticks
work. There have been times when I have thought of selling my slab
roller, but then I think "Nahhh! it's paid for!! And anything paid for -
keep, might use it later!"
I have noted in a lot of tapes of Lana Wilson, that she is using the ol'
rolling pin routine as well. Never saw her use a slab roller, though she
well may.
On a similar subject, the same goes for wheels. Potential newbies to
clay get all excited about getting a wheel. They go somewhere, see
pottery being thrown, know nothing about clay in general, and they go
get a wheel....looks like fun....and is. But takes a lot of work to
develop the skill of the person they watched doing the throwing. Had I
taken clay lessons somewhere before I went through that routine I may
well have gone a different direction with pottery clay, I may have
become a slab builder or something. Potters wheels are are a pretty
hefty financial investment. Rolling pins and sticks are a lot cheaper,
and work produced from them can bring a great deal of satisfaction.
My $0.02
John Rodgers
Throwing pots on YellowLeaf Creek
Chelsea, AL
clennell wrote:
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>
>
>
>>Second question:
>>Have any of you changed your manual Bailey
>>slab roller to an electric slab roller? If so, tell
>>me about it, please ..... it'll help if you speak
>>to me as if I
>>were about 4th grade level.... Seems as if
>>CPA Bonnie may have changed her Bailey,
>>but then again she may have purchased the
>>electric in the first place since she's a very
>>smart and practical lady, whoops, excuse me,
>>female or maybe just woman .... Bonnie
>>
>>
>
>
> Dear Joyce: It seems to me people buy slab rollers that really don't need
>them. sheila does alot of slab rolling. I said lets get a slab roller!!!!!
>She said that's a really good idea Tony, but I don't want one! she prefers
>to roll slabs with a rolling pin and some sticks to guage thickness. If you
>are in big time production then by all means, but otherwise it'll end being
>a very expensive glazing table..
>cheers,
>Tony
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>4545 King Street
>Beamsville, Ontario
>CANADA L0R 1B1
>http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
>
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>4545 King Street
>Beamsville, Ontario
>CANADA L0R 1B1
>http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
>
>clennell@vaxxine.com
>
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Roger Korn on tue 24 jun 03
At one time, I thought of a slab roller as a requirement for making
precise slabs for handbuilding. Since then,
I have learned (thanks Vince, thanks RitchieBell) to throw out slabs on
a canvas work surface to approximate
thickness, then to go to sticks and rolling pin to finish. This has an
advantage: it makes it easier to rotate the
direction of the shear that occurs in the rolling process, so that the
shrinkage on drying will be more uniform,
rather than being greatest along the axis of greatest shear
(perpendicular to the axis of the roller).
My main use is simply cutting tiles from slabs, and these are much more
uniform after drying if the direction of rolling the slab
is rotated.
Of course, in heavy production, the way to go would be to use a slab
roller and compensate for the non-uniformity
of shrinkage by modifying the layout.
Roger
clennell wrote:
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>
>
>
>>Second question:
>>Have any of you changed your manual Bailey
>>slab roller to an electric slab roller? If so, tell
>>me about it, please ..... it'll help if you speak
>>to me as if I
>>were about 4th grade level.... Seems as if
>>CPA Bonnie may have changed her Bailey,
>>but then again she may have purchased the
>>electric in the first place since she's a very
>>smart and practical lady, whoops, excuse me,
>>female or maybe just woman .... Bonnie
>>
>>
>
>
> Dear Joyce: It seems to me people buy slab rollers that really don't need
>them. sheila does alot of slab rolling. I said lets get a slab roller!!!!!
>She said that's a really good idea Tony, but I don't want one! she prefers
>to roll slabs with a rolling pin and some sticks to guage thickness. If you
>are in big time production then by all means, but otherwise it'll end being
>a very expensive glazing table..
>cheers,
>Tony
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>4545 King Street
>Beamsville, Ontario
>CANADA L0R 1B1
>http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
>
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>4545 King Street
>Beamsville, Ontario
>CANADA L0R 1B1
>http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
>
>clennell@vaxxine.com
>
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