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the neatest wedging table!

updated sat 1 nov 03

 

Karen Stokes on fri 31 oct 03


I am de-lurking just long enuf to tell ya'll about this keeno wedging table
I found!

The hubby & I were browsing for an outdoors-type table at one of my favorite
thrift stores here in Arizona, when I spied this old table covered with a
rug. I couldn't figure out what the rug was for, so I lifted the rug up, and
found a plaster wedging table! It seems that this elderly potter lady had
needed a table to wedge on, and her thrifty hubby had built her one. But,
this table is light weight!

What he did is take an old solid door that had three panels in it, and had
turned the top and bottom panel into the wedging part. Apparently he had cut
out the panels, and poured in pottery plaster, leveled it even with the
surface of the door, and had an instant wedging table! And, he cut out the
middle panel, smoothed the edges down, and then cut out a same-size chunk of
wood that was level with the surface of the door, and put a finger-hole in
it so the panel could be lifted up. This was a place to store the un-wedged
clay while you are wedging the other. He then put table legs on it, with
space for storing the potters wheel under it, or so I was told. This was the
neatest idea! I HAD TO HAVE IT! The price was $20, so I forked over the
money, and asked the little lady that runs the place to save any other stuff
of like items for me, as the clay lady was "hanging it up" because she was
"getting too old for this stuff", or some such.

I felt sorry for the lady who's table this was, as I can relate to "getting
too old". I told my hubby the other day that I was going to bed with 2
strange men, and waking up with them too - "Arthuritis, and Bursitis" were
their names. I was tired of them in my bed, and wanted them gone. Hubby got
a good cackle out of that one!

If anyone would like a pic of the table, email me off list, and I will send
you one. It may take a couple of days or so to get back to you, as I am
working every night I can overtime as a nurse in order to have extra $ for
the holidays. We are really shorthanded at the Indian Health Service
Hospital that I work at, and can work all the overtime that I can handle.

Take care, and keep sending stuff to this list! This is my favorite of the
several that I subscribe to, and I have to have my daily "fix" of
clay-related thingies to read and save.


Karen Stokes
3 Feathers Ranch
Snowflake, Arizona

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