Lee Love on tue 12 jul 05
From: Pat Southwood wrote:
> The bit that really sticks in my mind was him using his Fathers'
> chisel to facet the bottle he had just coiled.
> My Dad loved wood. I use his tools on clay as much as I can.
> He would be furious if could see me!
I am reading from the archives. ( Taylor, this works good!)
Looks like he is trimming with a bamboo knife. It works well
on shigaraki clay. But soft clay and a chuck are best.. You can get
a chiseled look this way. A dull loop tool seems to work
similarly. You need the chuck, because the clay is soft and can
cave-in while trimming.
I think of my mother when I use the hot glue gun to make
stamps on corks or surfacing a paddle with hot glue. She used to
work for a model car factory in Troy, Michigan and the times I visited,
the hot plasitcs always smelled like the hot glue gun does..
Instead of rope impression like what my teacher does for
inlay, I use a cheese cutter with a spring stretched for a wire to
texture for inlay. I first swaw MacKenzie facet with a wire cheese
cutter at a workshop at NCC . My grandfather on my mother's side was
from WolfCreek, Wisconsin. *Hehe*, a cheezehead. These are ways to
bring a little Minnesota to Mashiko. ;^)
--
Lee Love
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"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
-- Prospero The Tempest
Shakespeare
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