Lily Krakowski on mon 11 aug 03
Pot squoosh--a round pot turning oval when removed from wheel is not excuse
for giving up on cutting the pot off and lifting it off. Sure. A bat is
nice, and I do use them for plates and bigger bowls. BUT...
1. Make sure the bottom is thick enough. Make the bottoms extra thick till
you have learned to cut the pot off well. The thickness of a regular yellow
pencil is about right.
2. Put some water on the wheelhead so that when you pull the wire through
you get some water underneath. Careful here...the water may make the pot
slip.
3. Wet the place on the board where the pot will go. Now comes the hard to
explain part.
4. As I am right handed this is the right handed version.
Dry your hands. Cup your right hand around the pot, gently, gently with the
edge of your palm resting on the wheelhead.
Turn your left hand palm up. Your extended thumb points straight forward,
toward the back of the wheel, the edge of the palm is in line with your
tummy, and the fingers are pointing towards your right arm. With all this
said, your hand is in the position it would be if you were holding a pocket
watch in your palm and reading the dial.
GENTLY push the edge of your left hand--the part between extended thumb and
index against the pot till you have good contact, and the right hand
prevents anything from slipping. The thumb gives support.
Take a deep breath, count one, two, three and LIFT the pot up. No tilting.
Place it on board. Done.
Practice the general motion with a half-used or small roll of toilet paper.
It is NOT difficult. It does take practice.
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
Karen Stokes on tue 12 aug 03
One of the ways that I was shown in high school, (Claremont, California,
Class of '70), was to throw "off the hump", (which I still do because of
SEVERE carpal tunnel), place a wet masonite bat squished into the remaining
hump clay, even and level with the top of the hump. Then, throw some water
on the top of the hump, slide the wire thru the base, and kind of "slide"
the pot off the hump and onto the wet bat. You have to be careful doing
this, because if the bat is tilted in any way, the pot will slide off the
other side. (I have done this!). If it is a large pot, this technique needs
2 people.
Just my .02 cents worth.
Karen Stokes
3 Feathers Ranch
Snowflake, Arizona
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