Lili Krakowski on sun 30 jan 05
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We all shall go mad from PC. If a pot was made by the Navaho, or =
whoever, than why not call it a Navaho pot? Native American is a total =
nothing. I remember when calling a "colored" person a Black, and a male =
homosexual "gay" earned you a black eye. Now it is de rigueur (Thank =
you, Lesbian sisters, for sticking to one name; variants of Sappho =
fortunately have disappeared!) What really gnaws at me is that all of =
that comes from underlying bigotry. One can get around the Indian bit I =
think by saying :This pot was made in what is now New Mexico by the =
local people"-- or like that....A friend who became hemiplegic in middle =
age, wore a leg brace and limped, used to get livid in the park when =
some mother scolded a two-year old for asking: Mommy why does that lady =
walk funny, and have that thing on her leg?" S. made it a point to go =
over and praise the child for its observation explain that she had been =
in a bad accident, that she was ok, but that a lot of people think it =
is wrong to talk aloud about differences.....She had a lot of two-year =
old friends in the park!!!
I have used cowhorn as slip trailer. It is clumsier than one thinks. =
Conch shells work well--try'em.
Silk screen fabric comes in very fine meshes. And is cheap. It is very =
easy to make a sieve out of, or to use as liner in a plain old kitchen =
sieve. Worth a try. Also: one can get (better yet make) mortars and =
pestles and use those to mash down little nasties that have settled out =
in a homemade stain.
FINE SLIP lines can be achieved using old eye-drop bottles. You need a =
fine drill bit to enlarge the hole on some, and you need to use very =
liquid slip--but this works.
Also: And this was gleaned from SUGGESTIONS in CM. The electronic =
stores sell something called "Heat shrink tubing" No idea what THEY do =
with it. But for potters it makes diverse bore tubes to put on bottles =
like hairdye bottles and use for trailing. For modifying rubber =
syringes, go to a "hobby" store--one that sells stuff for model planes =
and the like. They have a swell assortment of fine aluminum tubing--oh, =
from a 00 knitting needle to a #6 bore. These can be cut to desired =
size and fitted into bulbs.=20
The knitting stores and similar sell cheaply cards with holes that are =
used to measure knitting needle thickness. Hardware stores use similar =
cards to measure the exact thickness of screws, bolts and like that. (I =
do not know where they buy those cards) It is a great help when =
speaking of diameters of lines, or trailers to have a knitting card as a =
reference. Think on it.
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
John Rodgers on sun 30 jan 05
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Lili Krakowski wrote:
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>FINE SLIP lines can be achieved using old eye-drop bottles. You need a fine drill bit to enlarge the hole on some, and you need to use very liquid slip--but this works.
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>Also: And this was gleaned from SUGGESTIONS in CM. The electronic stores sell something called "Heat shrink tubing" No idea what THEY do with it. But for potters it makes diverse bore tubes to put on bottles like hairdye bottles and use for trailing. For modifying rubber syringes, go to a "hobby" store--one that sells stuff for model planes and the like. They have a swell assortment of fine aluminum tubing--oh, from a 00 knitting needle to a #6 bore. These can be cut to desired size and fitted into bulbs.
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Something that might be tried in this regard......
I have not actually done slip trailing this way myself, but this
discussion prompted the memories of this being done.
I used to work in a bio lab. We had glass tubing that we would cut to
length - break actually - by scoring the glass and breaking it at the
scored point. Then the scored end was heated in a bunsen burner flame
until the sharp edges rounded in the heat. Next the tubing was heated in
the burner flame until the glass softened and could be pulled or
stretched. This stretching would pulll out a ong tapered section of tube
that when cooled could be broken at any point to make various sized
openings. A length of surgical tubing was placed over the large end.
This glass and surgical tubing combination served as a "Pipette". One
could insert the pulled or stretched end of the glass tube into a fluid
allowing the tube to fill, then grasp the rubber tube, crimping it over,
and thereby creating a vacuum above the liquid in the tube, keeping it
from running back out. Then, whenever we wanted, carefully release the
rubber and mete the fluid out in a stream or drop by drop, however we
wished.
I have not actually done slip trailing this way myself, but this
discussion prompted the memories of this process being done.
I see no reason this same process could not be applied to slips and slip
trailing. thereby giving great control. I think it has possibilities.
If one uses the glass however, caution needs to be observed due to
possible glass breakage, but this should allow very fine control of
slips when doing slip trailings.
my 0.02
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
John Rodgers on sun 30 jan 05
knitting needle guide
Lili Krakowski wrote:
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>Also: And this was gleaned from SUGGESTIONS in CM. The electronic stores sell something called "Heat shrink tubing" No idea what THEY do with it. But for potters it makes diverse bore tubes to put on bottles like hairdye bottles and use for trailing. For modifying rubber syringes, go to a "hobby" store--one that sells stuff for model planes and the like. They have a swell assortment of fine aluminum tubing--oh, from a 00 knitting needle to a #6 bore. These can be cut to desired size and fitted into bulbs.
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The heat shrink tubing is exactly that. Heat it and it shrinks. The
application is to put it over connections, then heat it and the tubing
shrinks tight around the connection making a tight seal.
You can slip a piece of heat shrink tubing over the end of a piece of
aluminum or brass tubing, turn your heat gun on it and shrink it tight
onto the metal tubing so it doesn't slip off easily.
I often slip the stuff over plier handles, glaze tong handles, etc, and
heat it to shrink it tight.
There are probably many other applications. I keep piece of several
sizes in my tool box as it has numerous applications. Pottery,
electronincs, auto maintenance, etc. I have two pieces that are 1 in.
and 2 in in diameter respectively.
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
Ama Menec on mon 31 jan 05
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Lili wrote :We all shall go mad from PC. If a pot was made by the Navaho,
or whoever, than why not call it a Navaho pot? Native American is a total
nothing. I remember when calling a "colored" person a Black, and a male
homosexual "gay" earned you a black eye. Now it is de rigueur (Thank you,
Lesbian sisters, for sticking to one name; variants of Sappho fortunately
have disappeared!)
Ah Lili,
I wish it were so simple! We lesbians have our own complicated word
politics....such as 'Dyke', 'Gay', 'Gay Girl', not to mention all the
1920's, sexologists inspired ones like 'Invert'.....Actually I'd quite like
to be called a 'Sapphist'; but then I'm an old fashioned kind of girl!
I may have done a ceramics degree, but my dissertation was on the lesbians
in the women's suffrage movement and their conflicts with sexology....and I
was teaching lesbian history at the same time.
But thank you for reminding us ;-)
Ama, Totnes, Devon.
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