Viking Potter Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 I can't believe that it has been nearly 2 years since I was last active here. In that time the family took an adult ed pottery class, started appreciating and collecting other peoples work, and just recently we bought the contents of a defunct ceramic shop. And suddenly I found that we could really use a second wheel to supplement the first wheel I converted to treadmill power. And as is too often the case, I wanted it now, wanted it cheap, and could find absolutely nothing used available within a three state radius. So I made my own. I have been using this now for a couple of weeks and it works fine. If I were to do it over (and i already have plans to do another) I would make the table around the splash pan smaller, probably go three legs rather than 4, and I will likely pick the splash pan or build it and then design the table top specifically with the pan in mind. So after the build I did a quick video to show my results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Nice job! I'd get a larger pulley because that goes way too fast for me. Good job though. Nicely done. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Potter Posted February 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 On 2/14/2018 at 7:24 PM, Marcia Selsor said: Nice job! I'd get a larger pulley because that goes way too fast for me. Good job though. Nicely done. Marcia Yeah, I doubled the size of the pulley after the first couple of days. Since then I have thrown about 20 bowls and various other things on it with good results. I also put the knob back on the speed control so you can get ahold of it with slick fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 Good job. I'm guessing you made it as one would build a car-because they wanted to. I have thrown on knob controlled wheels and for me the foot pedal is far easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilestrick Posted February 21, 2018 Report Share Posted February 21, 2018 @Viking Potter My first personal wheel was an old wood framed model that a friend of a relative had made in the 70's. It only had one speed, but it worked pretty well for most pots. You've obviously gone way above and beyond that, so well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Potter Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 On 2/20/2018 at 3:05 PM, Mark C. said: Good job. I'm guessing you made it as one would build a car-because they wanted to. I have thrown on knob controlled wheels and for me the foot pedal is far easier. Fast is not one of my skills. At class, when I used the foot pedal I seemed to keep bumping the thing somehow. Plus, I was too lazy to try to engineer a foot feed for the treadmill set up. I have an old Amaco kick wheel that was already converted to the treadmill motor and it works well for us for now. Initially I was building this wheel primarily to use for trimming with a griffin grip, I was just planning on leaving it set up that way. But since I built it, it is the only one I have used and the griffin grip remains sitting next to the old wheel. Guess I will have to make another one for trimming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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