lili krakowski on mon 17 nov 03
You do not need to dampen the rim of a pot to be trimmed.=20
Once it is tapped to center you hold it in place with your fingers, No =
you do NOT lean down on it, you hold it, and if your wheel is going =
slowly it will not fly away.
For pots with weak bottoms or too thin ones, one inverts a suitable jam =
or mustard jar lid on the bottom, so that the pressure of one's fingers =
is "distributed" .
At a random guess half the throwing and trimming problems posted on =
Clayart are the direct result of speed-demonism.
WHAT is your hurry. You will not make more pots if you go too fast, =
because you will ruin more pots and therefore need to wedge up clay like =
for 3 pots before you have a keeper.
Susan Setley on mon 17 nov 03
In a message dated 11/17/03 10:45:51 AM, mlkrakowski@CITLINK.NET writes:
<<
At a random guess half the throwing and trimming problems posted on Clayart
are the direct result of speed-demonism.
WHAT is your hurry. >>
I am absolutely with you on that one. A couple of years ago someone in the
studio where I work came over and criticized me for spinning the wheel too
slowly as I trimmed, that trimming "should be done very fast."
Well, not when the clay is a little on the damp side. It was a shallow bowl
that was going to have a very deep foot, and I needed to trim some of the
thickness away if it was to have a hope of drying evenly. If I'd gone fast my tool
might have grabbed and popped the piece off, and sent it flying.
So I watched him. Man did he fly... and so did the clay -- everywhere. It hit
walls, and it hit the floors, and lots of pieces broke off and crumbled. All
that dust to clean up, and the place is damp-mopped but once a week.
I trim more slowly, and I gather up the trimmings and keep them to reclaim.
That also keeps them from being smashed into the walls and cement floor to
"enhance the atmoshprere."
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