Eleanora Eden on fri 24 jun 05
To sincultura and all,
I was kinda astounded about how this thread fell so quickly into the
toilet but hey, whatda ya gonna do......
ANYWAY, I also have Eric Hansen's experience, he said:
Throwing rings make the pot stronger. If you take a rib and a metal
scraper and do the inside and outside and remove the rings you get
weaker walls (easier to alter?). So one way to throw thinner is to
keep the throwing rings in there till your last pull and shape. -
anyway this teacher used his fingertips exclusively. So I was
checking out what I did differently? and noticed I used my last
finger joint as though it were a rib almost parallel to the wall. So
I never encountered his problem
I throw with my knuckle, not fingertips, for the heavy-lifting parts
of pulling up. But what I want to get into here is the fact that I
have gotten thoroughly away from throwing marks as an aesthetic
preference and only get into trouble here when I scrape too much away
and leave an impossibly thin wall which stays intact until after the
bisque fire. Talking about bowls.
So I have taken to filling in with slop so I am evening out the highs
and lows. I decided at some point that it was easier to trim bowls
than lose them. I do a very quick throwing job and then go back a
bit later and finish the job when it is set up a bit.
On vases and pitchers I have had the no-trim determination for the
whole time. Earlier on I would simply roll the pot around in a
circle, moving a bit of the wall down toward the foot. Nowadays I
take a bamboo tool and just shave the extra off before I take the pot
off the wheel.
Have a good day everybody.....I'm on a tear here to not have to leave
anything undone before Ann Arbor fair.
Eleanora
>
>I started throwing narrow altered 12"- 14" tall vases... I'm happy with =
>the
>form but I think they are a bit on the heavy side... Since I alter them
>before they reach leather hard I can't trim them.
>
>How thick is too thick for a thrown pot wall?
>
>I was wondering if somebody could help me out with some tips on how to =
>throw
>thinner tall pots?
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>Sincultura
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