iandol on tue 2 may 00
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Back in 1994 Errol Barnes of Lyre Bird Pottery in South Queensland told me =
he
had employed a jobbing thrower for a time when he ran a wholesale business. =
This
chap turned out ten pound planters. The production rate, three hundred a =
day.
That=92s three thousand pounds of clay, almost a ton and a half every day.
If you run a business, high turnover gives black figures on the bottom line.=
If
you intend employing people, money has to come into the kitty regularly. The
nature of the game is contracts, not consignment.
Throwing, as people are pointing out, is, in contrast to mould making, =
casting
and fettling, the production method which gives the greatest scale of =
economy
for certain types of product.
Ivor. Who spent fifteen years of his working life in industrial situations.
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