Thread: started my first scuttle

Having gone back to school I found out I had to take another "humanities" class. Well a basic ceramics class was being offered so that's what I've been doing this semester. Finaly started working on the wheel about 2 weeks ago, and after making about a half dozen bowls I decided to try for a 2 piece scuttle tonight. I think it should work just fine. It won't be complete for another 2 weeks as it still needs to dry, be fired, glazed and fired again. The thrown size of the inner bowl is about 3" tall and 3" in diameter inside. If I got everything right there will be about 1" - 1 1/4" clearance between the two bowls. Once heated up it should be able to hold temp for quite a while.

Pictures and a write up of the test drive after it's done would be cool.

Then you can start the production line for the rest of us.

If it looks like its going to work fine after I get it put together I will try to make as many as I can. At that point I will only have about 3 classes left in which to build them.

Solution: Sell them and buy your own supplies to make more to sell.

Heck I only signed up for the class because I needed it for a general ed credit, something about "being more well rounded". Kind of like the public speaking class that was also required. I'm going into a program that is going to have me working as a techincian in the middle of nowhere it's not like I realy need to be able to eloquently converse on the finer points of aincient textiles in my job. It actually wouldn't be to bad if I didn't have to many other hobbies already.

I hear you on that one. It's the same reason I took a woodcarving class last semester here.

What is the design? Is this basically a bowl inside another bowl? I'm trying to figure out how to design my next set. I have thrown a couple of different shaving mugs, and brush handles. At this point I'm trying to see what other people have come up with. Google searches don't really show a lot of variation from what I have found.

This should be a fun thread to follow.
Be cool to see both your sucesses and possible failures. I dont think much has been discused, on the topic of making scuttles from scratch...you could provide valuable info., and pics hopefully, that we can all appreciate.

Many thanks,

Mac

Good luck with your scuttle making. If you could get some pictures of the different stages along the way of the scuttle making process, would be very cool, as well as the final product. I agree with McWolf1969, this is going to be a very fun and interesting thread to follow. Thank you and once again good luck.

I'll see what I can do to get some pics of wher it's at so far. May not be able to get them until monday, and then I'll try to get some pics of each step of the process.