Lois Ruben Aronow on wed 4 aug 99
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There's been some talk here lately about trimming the inside of a pot.
Coincidentally, I've read about it in a few places lately.
Would anyone care to shed some light on how this is done? Tips,
techniques, advice are all appreciated.
Thanks.....Lo
Antoinette Badenhorst on sat 7 aug 99
Hi Lois, in rare cases I will trim on the inside. This will happen if I
end up with a unwanted hump on the inside of a pot. It is difficult to
trim on the inside and I will use a round loop tool. I will also do
this before I trim the bottom so that I can secure the pot in full on
the wheel head.
Trimming on the inside will not help if one mean to alter the total
shape of the pot. It is best to make sure that your inside shape is
exactly what you want before taking it off the wheel.
Regards.
Antoinette
--- Lois Ruben Aronow wrote:
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> There's been some talk here lately about trimming
> the inside of a pot.
> Coincidentally, I've read about it in a few places
> lately.
>
> Would anyone care to shed some light on how this is
> done? Tips,
> techniques, advice are all appreciated.
>
> Thanks.....Lo
>
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Antoinette Badenhorst
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Eydie DeVincenzi on sun 8 aug 99
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Lo:
=3EThere's been some talk here lately about trimming the inside of a pot.
Coincidentally, I've read about it in a few places lately . Would anyone
care to shed some light on how this is done? Tips, techniques, advice are
all appreciated.=3C
I MUST scrape-trim the insides of my pots because I work with colored clay
and the smudge must be scraped off. I use the following process:
1. In leather hard stage: a metal rib for macro work -- shaping, removing
larger chunks, adding cut-ins.
2. In dry stage: Synthetic steel wool pad by 3M - course
3. Finishing pad by 3M - medium
4. Finishing pad by 3M - fine
5. Steel wool - fine
This produces mucho clay dust so I recommend a mask,
Eydie DeVincenzi
Eleanor Hendriks on thu 31 mar 05
Hello All,
Every now and then something stops me and makes me go hmmm... A book called
"The Potter's Wheel" by Barbaformosa from Barcelona is one such something.
This book is filled with hundreds of colour photos of the throwing process,
many cross section diagrams of shapes, and pages of typical errors in
throwing with suggestions for their prevention. The thing that makes me go
hmmmm.. is that she trims (she refers to this as 'turning') everything, and
I mean everything, inside and out! Each piece gets a custom made chuck
intended to hold it first inverted and then upright for trimming. She uses
more clay to make a chuck than I do for a whole board of mugs! Towards the
end of the book she demonstrates a project that starts as a thrown and
stiffened 2"x12" disk of clay that is then trimmed into a final form -all
the shaping and aesthetic decisions are made in the trimming stage!
In her introduction she provides a why:
"..it is a fact that certain shapes simply cannot be made without turning."
and a why not:
"..If you want to make a large quantity of pieces at a reasonable price,
thay should be turned only on the base or not at all, and merely thrown."
This is all connected in my mind to my very first experience buying a
handmade pot directly from a potter (when I was 18). I went to the
One-of-a-Kind Show -the (arguably) premier craft show for Ontario- with a
potter I was working for. My goal was to buy the very best pot I could
afford (I still do this whenever I can). We separated and met again a few
hours later. I pulled out my prize to show my employer -she winced and said
"you know they trim all their stuff, don't you?" Of course I have never felt
exactly as purely excited about that pot as I did when I laid my $40 down,
but if I look at it now it is still an example of the truely elegant type of
shape that speaks to me every time ( and that I can now throw myself -17
years later -no trimming needed!)
Is trimming a substitute for throwing skill? probably not because trimming
is a skill too. The thing that needs the training is they eye -and we only
get that by doing -again and again. When my students say "it's still a bit
thick but I think I'll stop, I can trim it later" I smile and nod -they need
the practise there too.
So I say -trim the inside of the bowl if it will get you what you want -and
then try to get what you want another 100 times!
Eleanor Hendriks
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!
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