I have taken on a full time day job to pay the bills. That takes up quite a bit of what used to be studio time. Still I manage to spend time in the studio at least a day a week--teaching, firing kilns and making things in clay. Lately I have been fascinated with turtles but that is another post.
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Thrown leather hard cylinders |
This post is for Tiffany--the lady who requested a super large bubble cup and asked if I took pictures of the process. Here are a few. In the picture above are the thrown, leather hard cylinders. I have pulled their handles and am ready to trim their feet.
Below in the wheel head is a freshly trimmed cylinder. I use three different trimming blades on these kind of feet. One is pictured.
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Trimmed |
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Handles and cylinders |
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Altogether |
The cups pictured above are now completely dry and will be biscuit fired this week end. From there they will be glazed then fired again.