clayworks on wed 4 aug 04
I posted this Friday, but have seen no response, and couldn't find it on =
an archive search, so...
at the risk of sending redundant drivel that nobody cares about...
I picked up a treadle wheel the other day. It is not a Leach Style. =
Looks curiously like something AMACO may have made.
It is a manufactured wheel with a contoured aluminum splash pan with a =
large drain hole and flat area for tools, and a spoked cast iron =
flywheel, three tubular legs, and tall enough to throw standing.
It was being used to hold up a flower pot in someones flower garden. =20
The main bearing is shot, but everything else is there.
It is a pretty neat wheel. I think it would be ideal for =
demonstrations, and a little easier to lug around than my Randall =
Kickwheel. Something different for people to look at.
Does anyone have any information on this wheel?
Randy Peckham
P.S. I love blue. Oh well!
I heard a remark from a glassblower's wife.=20
"If you can't sell, make it blue. If you still can't sell, make it =
big."
I thought, "well that's kind of the point isn't it?"
Whatever it takes to be able to keep making em'.
John Rodgers on fri 6 aug 04
Randy,
I've a friend here who has one of those. it' neat. It had been relegated
to the trash dump but she rescued it. Nothig wrong with it. It's a
working antique. Hang onto yours, get it fixed, put it to work.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
clayworks wrote:
>I posted this Friday, but have seen no response, and couldn't find it on an archive search, so...
>at the risk of sending redundant drivel that nobody cares about...
>
>I picked up a treadle wheel the other day. It is not a Leach Style. Looks curiously like something AMACO may have made.
>
>It is a manufactured wheel with a contoured aluminum splash pan with a large drain hole and flat area for tools, and a spoked cast iron flywheel, three tubular legs, and tall enough to throw standing.
>
>It was being used to hold up a flower pot in someones flower garden.
>
>The main bearing is shot, but everything else is there.
>
>It is a pretty neat wheel. I think it would be ideal for demonstrations, and a little easier to lug around than my Randall Kickwheel. Something different for people to look at.
>
>Does anyone have any information on this wheel?
>
>Randy Peckham
>
>P.S. I love blue. Oh well!
>
>I heard a remark from a glassblower's wife.
>"If you can't sell, make it blue. If you still can't sell, make it big."
>I thought, "well that's kind of the point isn't it?"
>Whatever it takes to be able to keep making em'.
>
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Gary Navarre on fri 6 aug 04
Randy,
Sounds like a wheel I picked up back in the 60's. It was an Amaco and
the treadle arm was missing. Still I used it in that studio some of
use had on 7 Mile & Mack Ave. in Detroit. All I did was kick the fly
wheel to make small pots, it's not vary heavy. If you replace the
bearing it would make a good demonstration wheel. There was a guy at
the "Outback Art Fair" in Marquette this summer who threw on the Brent
wooden kick and fired raku at the same time. The pots he threw were
bisqueted at home, glazed, and fired at the next show. He didn't have
a whole lot of pots out and still made a couple hundred bucks. Lite
weight, easy to transport, quite the set up.
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Norway, Michigan
Randy Peckham wrote:
I picked up a treadle wheel the other day. It is not a Leach Style.
> Looks curiously like something AMACO may have made.
>
> It is a manufactured wheel with a contoured aluminum splash pan with a
> large drain hole and flat area for tools, and a spoked cast iron flywheel,
> three tubular legs, and tall enough to throw standing.
>
> It was being used to hold up a flower pot in someones flower garden.
>
> The main bearing is shot, but everything else is there.
>
> It is a pretty neat wheel. I think it would be ideal for demonstrations,
> and a little easier to lug around than my Randall Kickwheel. Something
> different for people to look at.
>
> Does anyone have any information on this wheel?
Randy,
Sounds like a wheel I picked up back in the 60's. It was an Amaco and
the treadle arm was missing. Still I used it in that studio some of
use had on 7 Mile & Mack Ave. in Detroit. All I did was kick the fly
wheel to make small pots, it's not vary heavy. If you replace the
bearing it would make a good demonstration wheel. There was a guy at
the "Outback Art Fair" in Marquette this summer who threw on the Brent
wooden kick and fired raku at the same time. The pots he threw were
bisqueted at home and fired at the next show. He didn't have a whole
lot of pots out and still made a couple hundred bucks. Lite weight,
easy to transport, quite the set up. Good idea.
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Norway, Michigan
Milla Miller on sun 8 aug 04
you might post to the North Carolina potter's community in Seagrove as I
remember seeing someone years back using something similar that a local potter was
manufacturing but that i'd never seen in the mass markets for potters like
CM.I do not have my link to Seagrove bulletin board since my computer crashed
earlier this summer but I am certain some CLAYART person has the link. You
also might ask Frank Gaydos or one of the others who have early CM magazines.
Margaret in SC
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