Joyce Lee on fri 3 oct 03
Brian asked:
"But what I REALLY want to know...is how do you join a big fat coil to a
skinny little rim! I really want to try the coil and throw technique but
have never seen this done"
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You don't attach the coil to a "skinny little rim" since
you'll be throwing them together and thinning out
that rim even more.
However, #1
Support Person did make three coil dies for my
extruder ..... one was a simple coil die.... the
second had a nickel glued to the coil so that
half the nickel
protruded into the empty space that formed the
coil.... the third had a quarter glued the same
as the nickel.
Thus I was able to extrude yards
of coils with indentations down their length,
which allowed the coils to fit over
the rim of a pot or over a previous coil which had
been thrown. This simplified the whole coil
throwing process.
Joyce
In the Mojave where I've been able to SIT OUTSIDE
during the middle of the day without being
toasted ...... sat and reviewed once again Tom
Coleman's "With A Little Help From My Friends"....
this is a series of glaze recipies which Tom or
select friends USE successfully,
plus commentary about firing and application. I've
almost worn out his first glaze book ..... looks like
that'll happen with this one, too. For years I
read cookbooks for entertainment.... glaze recipe
books hold my attention just as the cookbooks
did, now that I've learned a
smattering about glazes in general .....
Lee Love on sat 4 oct 03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce Lee"
>You don't attach the coil to a "skinny little rim" since
>you'll be throwing them together and thinning out
>that rim even more.
Yes, you don't thin out the edge until the end. When you coil and
throw, you shape and thin after you get all the coils on. With the large
platters, you throw verticle first, then you lay the rim down after all the
coils are on.
Here in Japan, no one ever threw large things by centering a mountain of
clay until the electric wheel was introduced. With this technology,
people started changing human needs to please the technology.
I saw this quote someone last week. Does anybody know where it comes
from?:
"Mechanization never saved labor. It only increases production."
They say in hunter/gather societies, only about 3 hours of work a
day, on the average, is necessary to provide for all the basic necessities.
Maybe that is why in those societies, everybody has time to be a
craftsman/artist. :^)
Lee In Mashiko
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