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Wiring off the wheel,tip.
Hi all, just joined your group after reading some of your postings.
There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden boards it can create a'sticky' problem when you later come to remove the pot to 'turn/trim' it, most people run a wire under the pot for a second time.I have found that if you wet a sheet of newspaper (torn to fit the board), lay it over the board (keeping it fairly smooth)and slide the wired pot onto it, when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. |
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plodder writes Hi all, just joined your group after reading some of your postings. There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden boards it can create a'sticky' problem when you later come to remove the pot to 'turn/trim' it, most people run a wire under the pot for a second time.I have found that if you wet a sheet of newspaper (torn to fit the board), lay it over the board (keeping it fairly smooth)and slide the wired pot onto it, when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. This sounds a good idea. I use very thin batts (actually hardboard), and provided the pot is at just the right degree of drying-out, I can hold the pot in my left hand while I gently bend the batt away from the pot's base. If I do this perhaps three or four times as I rotate the pot, it comes free from the batt without trouble. But I like the newspaper method, and I can't wait to try it! Jake Loddington, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, Lancashire. |
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"plodder" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, just joined your group after reading some of your postings. There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden boards it can create a'sticky' problem when you later come to remove the pot to 'turn/trim' it, most people run a wire under the pot for a second time.I have found that if you wet a sheet of newspaper (torn to fit the board), lay it over the board (keeping it fairly smooth)and slide the wired pot onto it, when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. Dry newspaper does not stick, works better. However I don't wire off at all. I use hardboard bats, leave the pot on it and flex the bat when leather hard and the pot pops off, no clay wasted. You must not let the pot dry beyond leather hard though or you get cracking in the base. |
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This may seem stupid, but I'm quite new to all this ... you use the
shiny side of the hardboard, right? Does that make the base of the pot stay quite wet? I'm sure if you were using the other side it would just adhere!? Yes? Thanks, P Xtra News wrote: "plodder" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, just joined your group after reading some of your postings. There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden boards it can create a'sticky' problem when you later come to remove the pot to 'turn/trim' it, most people run a wire under the pot for a second time.I have found that if you wet a sheet of newspaper (torn to fit the board), lay it over the board (keeping it fairly smooth)and slide the wired pot onto it, when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. Dry newspaper does not stick, works better. However I don't wire off at all. I use hardboard bats, leave the pot on it and flex the bat when leather hard and the pot pops off, no clay wasted. You must not let the pot dry beyond leather hard though or you get cracking in the base. |
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In New Zealand hardboard is a bit shiny on both sides. Ya know thin
darkish, layered stuff. Quite flexible and the clay sticks very well for throwing and then pops off well when leather hard. A "pbhj" wrote in message ... This may seem stupid, but I'm quite new to all this ... you use the shiny side of the hardboard, right? Does that make the base of the pot stay quite wet? I'm sure if you were using the other side it would just adhere!? Yes? Thanks, P Xtra News wrote: "plodder" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, just joined your group after reading some of your postings. There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden boards it can create a'sticky' problem when you later come to remove the pot to 'turn/trim' it, most people run a wire under the pot for a second time.I have found that if you wet a sheet of newspaper (torn to fit the board), lay it over the board (keeping it fairly smooth)and slide the wired pot onto it, when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. Dry newspaper does not stick, works better. However I don't wire off at all. I use hardboard bats, leave the pot on it and flex the bat when leather hard and the pot pops off, no clay wasted. You must not let the pot dry beyond leather hard though or you get cracking in the base. |
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......generally if the pot is at leather hdard stage, good for trimming purposes, it will come off bat easily...maybe a quick wiring may be needed....but the newspaper idea sounds good and just shows the ingenuity of potters....i leardned a good tip...i throw on a bat and if i have to move the thrown piece to another bat, i put a paper towel lightly on top of the piece....dampen where the towel touches the rim....now when you slide the piece onto a bat, it will kepp the "circle" of the pot and not get an ovalshape....simple idea but works really well.... |
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In message , Jake Loddington
writes There was some talk about wiring off pots and I thought I could share a tip with you by way of introduction: If, as I do, you slide your pots onto a selection of small wooden SNIP when you come to trim it later it will lift off the board easily;sometimes a circle of paper stays on the base of the pot but this is no problem to peel off. This sounds a good idea. But I like the newspaper method, and I can't wait to try it! Jake Loddington, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, Lancashire. Tried it, and it works a treat. Thank you! Jake Loddington, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, Lancashire |
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