Rog Coman on tue 25 may 04
Can anyone out there guide me to a website, store, catalog, etc. where I can
find a "cow's tongue", a tool used in the throwing of bowls.
Thanks,
Rog Coman
fishhookpottery@aol.com
Lee Love on wed 26 may 04
On 2004/05/26 12:26:45,Rog Coman wrote:
> Can anyone out there guide me to a website, store, catalog, etc. where I
> can find a "cow's tongue"
http://www.japanpotterytools.com/how_to_use.html#GYUBERA
You might also inquire with Chris Henley. He was researching them a
while ago: http://www.hominid.net/toolpage2.htm
Don't see any at his page, you you might ask.
LEe
http://journals.fotki.com/togeika/Mashiko/ Commentary On Pottery
Veena Raghavan on wed 26 may 04
www.japantools.com
They advertise in CM.
Also, I believe Bailey stocks them.
Veena
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>Can anyone out there guide me to a website, store, catalog, etc. where I=
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find a "cow's tongue", a tool used in the throwing of bowls.<
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Ann Brink on wed 26 may 04
Hello Rog,
Someone else may answer your question more precisely, but the tool I love to
use to smooth the inside of bowls during the final pull is a wooden spoon
with the handle cut off. I've rounded and smoothed that area, so the
resulting shape can be used with many sizes of bowls. It's actually one of
my favorite tools. Any thrift store will have wooden salad spoons-try to
find one made of a fine grained wood.
Ann Brink in Lompoc Calif
> Can anyone out there guide me to a website, store, catalog, etc. where I
can
> find a "cow's tongue", a tool used in the throwing of bowls.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rog Coman
> fishhookpottery@aol.com
>
>.
Ivor and Olive Lewis on thu 27 may 04
Dear Rog Coman,
I think this is the sort of tool you would make for yourself to suit
the size of container you intend throwing.
Unlike many other devices used for ribbing the profile of a pot from
the inside it would seem to me as though this tool defines the volume
of a bowl and is made with that objective in mind.
Our good friend Lee Love may be able to add more but I still think
this is the sort of thing which could be made with a few simple hand
tools. I am wondering if I could make on out of a thick piece of
slate. Looking at the "All Purpose Short Nobibera" illustrated by
Kenneth Beittel, p71 fig 8 "Zen and the Art of Pottery" suggests to me
that this could be done. Otherwise I would use a hard fruit wood.
Best regards,
Ivor Lewis. Redhill, South Australia
Potters Council Member
Lee Love on fri 28 may 04
Ivor and Olive Lewis wrote:
>Dear Rog Coman,
>I think this is the sort of tool you would make for yourself to suit
>the size of container you intend throwing.
>
>
Ivor,
I think gyubera originally came from Korean. In Kyushu they
use them with porcelain. I bought some on my first trip back to Japan
in '93, but I never really used them. I prefer using ribs. I think
they are in storage in St. Paul.
I first saw Richard Breshnehan use one at a workshop at Northern
Clay Center (he studied in Kyushu.) I think he said the old guy that
originally made them for him in Japan has passed on and when he tried to
make them himself, they often cracked. His are much thinner than the
commercial ones I have seen. What he ended up doing is having a
friend cast them for him, from fiberglass and epoxy or something like
that. They are real light made this way and he seemed to really like
them.
I would recommend checking Henley's work out.
--
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://journals.fotki.com/togeika/Mashiko/ Commentary On Pottery
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