L. P. Skeen on sun 24 aug 03
I no longer clean my wheel. A little Everest of clay lumps and trimmings
grows steadily at my wheel. Right now it is a right mess.
Taylor,
You need the Charlie Riggs Clay Catchin' System. This consists of a
rubbermaid water trough (for livestock) set up on concrete blocks (If you
throw standing up - but there's no reason this wouldn't work sitting down
too; you'd just have to finagle a bit). The wheel fits right inside, set on
bricks til the wheel head is at belt buckle height. Your pedal goes on a
board placed catty-corner across the rim on your dominant hand side, and
your tools go on a board on your other side. Trimmings, slip, scrap, all go
into the trough as you work. When the pile gets as high as the wheel head,
time to clean out and start over.
L
Hendrix, Taylor J on sun 24 aug 03
Howdy all,
Snail don't steer you wrong. Dry clay to slip =3D seconds
flat. moist clay to slip =3D s***.
I am currently using hardy bats without pins for throwing,
and at times the lack of grogless slip can become acute.
I have resorted to reaching for my dirty throwing water to
collect enough slip on my bats for attachment.
Now that I have taken the next step in becoming more like
Tony Clennell (I have already shaved my back and thrown=20
away my elevator shoes) I no longer clean my wheel. A little
Everest of clay lumps and trimmings grows steadily at my=20
wheel. Right now it is a right mess. The beauty of this
system is that when the great urge hits one to smear nice=20
thick slip onto the bottoms of bats one has a ready supply=20
of dry pot trimmings lying around to quickly slack. Just
reach for that gallon jug of tap water you keep at your side=20
and...mixed drinks anyone?
Seriously, I keep containers of pot shavings and hammered
green ware dry and handy. Crush with the hand or in a=20
mortar and whatzyamacallit, add water to just cover and=20
watch the little fizzy thingy as the water just gets on upa.
Don't look directly at the forming slip unless you have on
welder's goggles.
Taylor, in Waco, where he is margarita and salsaed out!
Ann Geiger on mon 25 aug 03
Taylor-
Your terminology is becoming way to advanced for me, what is
"whatyamacallit"? I think I must have missed a post somewhere along the
way or just lost my way. I would appreciate your putting me right.
Thanks. Annie
-----Original Message-----
"Seriously, I keep containers of pot shavings and hammered
green ware dry and handy. Crush with the hand or in a
mortar and whatzyamacallit, add water to just cover and
watch the little fizzy thingy as the water just gets on upa.
Don't look directly at the forming slip unless you have on
welder's goggles."
Hendrix, Taylor J on mon 25 aug 03
Ann,
I'm so sorry. I'm being a Francosnob again. "Whatyamacallit"
is the French word for "pestle" ala mortar and pestle fame.
BTW, scratch the mortar and pestle step and just dump dry
pieces into water or vice versa. Less dust that way.
Taylor, in Waco
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Geiger [mailto:ageiger@STNY.RR.COM]=20
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:04 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Newbies make their own slip
Taylor-
Your terminology is becoming way to advanced for me, what is
"whatyamacallit"? ...
Lewis on wed 27 aug 03
What I found astonishing was the habitual and unaffected (ie natural) use in
his own language stream, by a Jordanian Christian Arab in Aqaba of (and I
paraphrase, obviously) "shuu ismu" for the same purpose.
"Shuu ismu" transl(iter)ates (if my memory of long-ago serves) into "what is
his name?", or, more colloquially - "wossname" which, as we all know, is
used in English English to define anything that the utterer wishes an
assistant to pass to him or her (more often him), as in "gimmee the
wossname".
Lewis
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Janet Kaiser
Sent: 27 August 2003 02:18
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Newbies make their own slip
"Whatyamacallit" (noun)
A word of five syllables, is sometimes pronounced:
Whats-a--Ma-call-it
Also known as a:
+ Doohicky
+ Thingamebob
+ Thingymejig
Derived from Old English: What do you call it
Janet Kaiser on wed 27 aug 03
"Whatyamacallit" (noun)
A word of five syllables, is sometimes pronounced:
Whats-a--Ma-call-it
Also known as a:
+ Doohicky
+ Thingamebob
+ Thingymejig
Derived from Old English: What do you call it
Used as a substitute by whacky persons in Texas and elsewhere
when suffering leaping senility or are doolally so the word they
need stays stubbornly at the tip of their tongue.
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser
****protecting the innocent by removing their name **********
>is the French word for "pestle" ala mortar and pestle fame.
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