Thread: What are you working on?

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I need a scuttle. If your going to make them I'll buy one from you.

I think good ol' Max deserves a nice big new feed bowl

More pieces.

Very nice !
So far what has been the most rewarding and the most challenging in this experience?

It is harder than it looks. Taking that lump of sticky dirt and making something...anything from it when what it and inertia want it to do is sling off the wheel is pretty cool. You really have to be its master. It seems like you're going to just turn on the wheel and coax it out but it takes some force and it fights you the whole time.

Also there is the creative element. Like any art you have to imagine what you want that lump to become and the clay has no inclination to do so, it wants to remain as it is. Other times it seems like it wants to become something, just not what you want it to be.

Especially when you are done and the wheel is turning and it is going around in a symmetry as if it were standing still is pretty cool.

A few things I've been working on this week.

Just did a quick fix on a MK10 I had in my Todo. Someone called for it, so it was time.

Before

(The thing above is the aforementioned "Todo")
Brushed a bit with fine grit sandpaper, a bit of Percival paste to make it shine a bit (something like fine grit paste)

Quick edge correction on Naniwa 1000, not perfectly straight but I could get a decent bevel on my strange coti (a monster bevel setter), up to 4000 on BBW.

Was sure I had some little washers but it appears I did not, just the ones between scales and blade, so rivetted directly on the scales. I suppose it's training for the purpose on doing it on ivory someday.

Meh, that will do.

So, I'm chasing a new Keller so I had to be clever with my pile of "rubbish" to make for a good exchange.
Let's see

Presto !


Ouuuuh me likey.
Setting a workable bevel was hard, as all of the razors from this old rotation. Must have been honed with a fsck up angle, raised back or sometimes.
But I'm quite happy with the result

It's not the end of the story for these beautiful broken scales. The rest is not for me to tell

Originally Posted by SCDad

I need a scuttle. If your going to make them I'll buy one from you.

Try Dirtybird Pottery in Boothbay Harbor Maine

Originally Posted by rolodave

Try Dirtybird Pottery in Boothbay Harbor Maine

Unfortunately, the Facebook page for Dirty Bird Pottery reports that the shop is permanently closed as a result of the passing of the owner.

Originally Posted by DZEC

Unfortunately, the Facebook page for Dirty Bird Pottery reports that the shop is permanently closed as a result of the passing of the owner.

That is a shame. She made quality scuttles