Check out THE STUDIO POTTER, Vol 11, No 1, Dec 1982, for an article titled: WHY ON EARTH DO THEY CALL IT THROWING? by Dennis Krueger.
It's available online at studiopotter.org/articles
FYI
Ric
Ric Swenson 770 923-8816
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>Reply-To: Clayart <CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG>
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: Re: Tech Talk, was: Re: Coil and Throw. - Now, Word-Soup, grabba Spoon...
>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:08:42 -0700
>
>Hi Vince, all...
>
>
>The old sense of the word 'throw', so far as any use I ever heard, was not a
>corallary for 'turning', but rather, a reference for how far, or that,
>something reaches.
>
>Throw, in reciprocating Engines, is necessarily, the distance of the Piston
>travel, or, of the offset from center, of the Crankshaft section which holds
>the connecting Rod; the 'throws' of the Crankshaft are those areas to which
>the connecting rod or rods, attatch...and their
offset from center is their
>'throw'.
>
>
>This is the true use of the old sense of the term as far as I know...not to
>mean 'Turning', but to mean or refer to, how far something reaches whether
>or not it rotates to do so, or, reciprocates in some way, or just does
>something once.
>
>Hand Pumps Handles, have their 'throw', and it is the distance they can, or
>must, travel to actuate the interior means of pumping. O9ts of things have
>their 'Throw' in some way, and the term is often one which identifies some
>important capacity or scale.
>
>When you throw something, it is not turning it...when you throw a Stone, it
>is not 'turning' it per-se, even if it may rotate in the Air while
>travelling...
>
>Throw, when applied to attributes or propertys of mechanical
or
>reciprocating things, is the distance some part of that reciprocating thing
>moves.
>
>
>Turning, is something else entirely. Turning is rotating, not reciprocal or
>distance-motion of something liniar.
>
>Throw, would seem more nearly a paralell to the term 'Cast', than anything
>to Turning...
>
>It does seem, that the present members of what had lastly been the British
>Empire, mostly use the term 'Turning' for our term of Trimming.
>
>I do not think they call Throwing, 'turning', do they?
>
>Wood Turning is 'Turning'...
>
>Never and not, 'Wood Throwing'...
>
>
>But there is Wood 'chucking' as we may recall...
>
>And "How much wood would a Woodchuck chuck, if a Woodchuck could chuck
>Wood?" and so on...remains an open
question...
>
>
>Love,
>
>
>Phil
>el ve
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vince Pitelka" <vpitelka@DTCCOM.NET>
>To: <CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:48 PM
>Subject: Re: Tech Talk, was: Re: Coil and Throw.
>
>
> > > I'd a thought Vince,
> > > Living in Tennessee as he does,
> > > Woulda knowed
> > > The proper term ain't throwin'
> > > It's turnin'.
> >
> > That's a good point, but I guess Tennessee culture hasn't seeped into my
> > bones quite to that degree. As someone pointed out, the term "throwing"
> > goes back to old English terminology for "turning." But as I understand
>it,
> > the early American usage of the term
"turning" that has survived in
> > Appalachian and Piedmont pottery tradition comes from turning objects on a
> > wood lathe. Throughout the history of pottery in those regions, there
>were
> > also people turing chair legs and wood bowls on a lathe, and that term
> > seemed most applicable to what the potter was doing on the wheel.
> > - Vince
> >
> > Vince Pitelka
> > Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
> > Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
> > vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
> > http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
> > http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
> >
> >
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