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straight cylinders on the wheel

updated sun 8 oct 06

 

Dale Neese on sat 7 oct 06


begin with a flat bottom inside. Keep the walls of the form when pulling up
looking like one of those nuclear power plant cooling towers, top choked in.
Fingers at the base of the clay at the wheel head, push in and out from the
inside, on the way up pull towards the center of the wheel not straight up.
Final shaping from the inside out against a rib up to a straight cylinder
form. Leave the rulers in the pencil box.

Dale Tex
"across the alley from the Alamo"
San Antonio, Texas USA