Lee Love on thu 30 jun 05
On 2005/06/30 2:21:49, claystevslat@yahoo.com wrote:
> So ... we're
> back where we started. Lee wants to call
> his wooden inertia wheel a banding wheel because he
> turns it -- powers it -- with his feet.
No, I didn't say that. My shimpo banding wheel, that I throw
and trim on using a throwing stick, is a banding wheel. These are the
same wheels the grade schoolers in Mashiko learn to throw on. The
korean wheels, like Hamada's hand wheel, are low inertia wheels. You
really don't kick the Korean wheel and make inertial energy. You
tread them. Experience is worth a Sagan's of words sometimes.
Tony said the korean kickwheel felt like a banding
wheel. I jokingly agreed with him. But he did make some good points
about how the korean wheels are more like a banding wheel than they are
an electric wheel. The low interial nature of these wheels are one of
the things that make up the character of the pots made on them.
If you ever experienced throwing on one, you get a sense
of what we are talking about. On my first korean kickwheel, that I
had back home in St. Paul, I never really learned to throw on. I'd
get tuckered out and leave it and hop on my Shimpo electric. I used
it to decorate on, just using it as a banding wheel. But I was forced
to learn how to use one during my apprenticeship. Now, it is what I
prefer. Throwing on an electric wheel would feel strange now.
I do occasional hump throw tea bowls off of my banding
wheel. Using the throwing stick takes some dexterity. At first,
you are always putting your arm through the pot on the hump and you have
to hold onto the stick while you are throwing. It has the feel of
the kind of throwing Hamada did on his hand wheel. It is good
to do once in a while, to work at not depending on power or inertia in
your throwing. And you have to do it quickly, because the wheel
stops so fast. I sometimes trim teabowls on it too.
If you go here, you can see Mike using the kind of banding
wheel I have: http://karatsupots.blogspot.com/
Shimpo makes a larger one, they are hand wheels and not a
banding wheel. The larger wheel is expensive and too heavy to be
lugging around the workshop.
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
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