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blowing pots/was: dropping clay, blowing glass

updated sat 3 sep 11

 

David Woof on thu 1 sep 11


Phil=3D2C=3D20
I think you are on to something here. Though if i were driven in that direc=
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tion I would explore adding "Life Mold" alginates=3D2C or some of those nif=
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clog everything in your body food additives.=3D20

Me=3D3B I don't lately get to do enough of what i love best=3D2C and since =
i wa=3D
s innoculated early in life against the bullshit that comes with the drive =
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for fame and fortune I will continue to seek the finest crafted pots that c=
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an come through my hands and someone else can "blow the clay" if they've a =
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mind to.

I do demonstrate and hand pass around the class my clay balloons=3D2C and s=
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w them the old jug makers trick of puffing up and rounding out the jug form=
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=3D2C but what no longer amazes me is that while some of these students wil=
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go out Friday night and before morning trade slobber with a stranger=3D2C t=
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y get all squeamish about planting their lips on the neck of a freshly thro=
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wn clay jug. What's up with that!!!

Woof
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=3DA016. Re: Dropping clay=3D2C blowing glass
Posted by: "pdp1" pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET
Date: Thu Sep 1=3D2C 2011 4:37 pm ((PDT))
I thinnk if one mixed say=3D2C "Bazooka' Bubble Gum=3D2C 50/50 with the rig=
ht C=3D
lay
Body=3D2C wedged it well=3D2C and had it nice and soft=3D2C one c-o-u-l-d- =
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Clay=3D2C
and=3D2C you could do it at room temperature!



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