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s cracks solution

updated tue 2 jan 01

 

eden@SOVER.NET on mon 1 jan 01


I used to have a variety of these mushroom shaped things large enough to
support the whole pot upon which I would invert the leather hard pot after
trimming and compress the middle of the bottom with a jab of my porcelain
pestle thingie....I think the morter is the bowl and the pestle is the
other half....anyway that used to go a long way toward solving that problem
for me. The one shape I loved to throw off the hump was bowls and the foot
was small enough in diameter to make such a solution feasible. I guess
with plates you might use a rib to do the compression.

Eleanora

At 10:01 AM 12/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Lee:
>Happy new year, This, maybe, a beginner's question, But how do you compress
>the bottom on plates when you throw them off the hump? I was told to always
>compress the bottom back and forth many times to prevent s cracks. How can
>you do that off the hump? please forgive my ignorance and help me learn more.
>Thanks a lot.
>Mayssan
>who feels she knows less now than she felt she knew five years ago.
>I guess by the time I am eighty I would feel I know absolutely nothing:)
>


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