Vince Pitelka on mon 30 jan 06
> Korean kick wheel. After thinking about it, I'm pretty sure all that
> rope is a decorative element, BUT when I first saw it I pictured a helper
> causing the wheel to turn by pulling out the rope to it's end, then while
> the wheel maintained it's momentum, letting the rope wind back up, then
> pulling again, and so on.....how about that? Have I invented something
> here?
Ann -
If you stop and think about it, each time the rope winds up, it would be
going in the opposite direction, and when you pull the rope, it would
necessarily change the direction of the wheel. If a person could get used
to throwing on a wheel that reverses direction every minute, it might work
great. Kind of like a giant yo-yo mounted sideways. I love that image. I
want to see someone build one.
This doesn't sound like a great job for the apprentice (pulling the rope to
power the wheel), but it's bound to be better than the Thrapsanon potter's
on Crete. These traditional potters have a row of wheels built into an
earthen bank, and on the lower level of the bank the vertical shaft is
visible, with horizontal pegs through the shaft. The potter's helper lays
on his side in the dirt all day long pedaling those horizontal pegs to power
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/
Ann Brink on mon 30 jan 06
I was looking at the tea bowls etc on Lee's blog -
http://claycraft.blogspot.com/ and after all the cups I saw a picture of
his Korean kick wheel. After thinking about it, I'm pretty sure all that
rope is a decorative element, BUT when I first saw it I pictured a helper
causing the wheel to turn by pulling out the rope to it's end, then while
the wheel maintained it's momentum, letting the rope wind back up, then
pulling again, and so on.....how about that? Have I invented something here?
(doubt it)
Ann Brink in Lompoc CA
Earl Brunner on mon 30 jan 06
If I understand you, you would be changing directions every time you pulled the rope...........
Earl Brunner e-mail: brunv53@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Ann Brink
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:25:06 PM
Subject: Lee Love's Korean kick wheel
I was looking at the tea bowls etc on Lee's blog -
http://claycraft.blogspot.com/ and after all the cups I saw a picture of
his Korean kick wheel. After thinking about it, I'm pretty sure all that
rope is a decorative element, BUT when I first saw it I pictured a helper
causing the wheel to turn by pulling out the rope to it's end, then while
the wheel maintained it's momentum, letting the rope wind back up, then
pulling again, and so on.....how about that? Have I invented something here?
(doubt it)
Ann Brink in Lompoc CA
Lee Love on tue 31 jan 06
On 2006/01/31 11:25:06, annsart@impulse.net wrote:
> I was looking at the tea bowls etc on
> Lee's blog -
> http://claycraft.blogspot.com/
That is Lee Middleman's kickwheel he bought in Korea and had shipped to
the States. My wheel is wrapped with ricestraw rope. The rope
keeps trimming scraps from getting inbetween the posts (the old type
bearings are not seals) and also keeps you from stubbing bare feet on
the spinning uprights.
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
--Leonardo da Vinci
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