Malone & Dean McRaine on tue 22 jul 97
Aloha Jennifer: I don't know how you're recycling your clay, it sounds like
you're trying to just moosh all the wet/semi-dry bits together. As you've
noticed the drier bits don't soften up. You've got to dry it out, bone dry,
wet to make a slurry, and dry to a workable state. I mix the slurry with
plenty of water with a electric drill/paint mixer in a bucket and pour into
pillowcases and hang up to dry. Then wedge it. It takes about a week here
in Hawaii. Or you can pour it out on a big plaster slab, or on a cement
floor with a wood frame...
Anybody else have any tricks for recycling?
Dean
Corinne P. Null on wed 23 jul 97
When the slurry bucket gets full, I just pour off the excess water and pour
the slurry out onto an old doubled up sheet on the studio cement floor.
Next day I'll turn it over by lifting one side of the sheet and flopping it
down on its other side. (This means when you first poured it out you
planned for the flip ahead of time). When it starts to get to the "right"
consistency, I pull off big chunks and wedge, put in a bag to keep, and use
as my handbuilding clay. Thus, my throwing stuff is always the prepackaged
pugmilled stuff from the supplier, and I'm always reminded that I must do
some handbuilding to use up the recycled. Keeps a nice balance in the work
load. Forces a shifting of attention, which is refreshing and an
opportunity for playing in a different way.
Some people have suggested that the recycled stuff is probably even better
to throw with, but since I don't have a pug mill, I don't want to have to
wedge that completely. Saving the wrists for the wheel work .
At 09:00 AM 7/22/97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Aloha Jennifer: I don't know how you're recycling your clay, it sounds like
>you're trying to just moosh all the wet/semi-dry bits together. As you've
>noticed the drier bits don't soften up. You've got to dry it out, bone dry,
>wet to make a slurry, and dry to a workable state. I mix the slurry with
>plenty of water with a electric drill/paint mixer in a bucket and pour into
>pillowcases and hang up to dry. Then wedge it. It takes about a week here
>in Hawaii. Or you can pour it out on a big plaster slab, or on a cement
>floor with a wood frame...
>Anybody else have any tricks for recycling?
>Dean
>
>
Corinne Null
Bedford, NH
cnull@mv.mv.com
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