Babs

Often if you hold the lid and give pot body a sharp rap with wooden dowel the pot will drop open. Just dont do this over a cement floor..... Lids thought to be stuck often part from pot and a little sand/grind will smooth any rough spots , just saying

Yip 18 untippable mugs i.e.stuck fast to shelves. Yeh newest shelves a few weeks ago. No protection against fools or the foolhardy in my shed.

Great find LeeU. Old phone books ..endless uses. LeeU make a nother clay impression wait till leatherhard or more. Vaseline or soap it up , board it up, seal corners and bottom of board/ table meeting lines, and pour plaster into the box thus formed . Hey presto a plaster mold...no nead to bisque the clay impression the clay just peels away from the plaster. Though I am sure you know this.

Liam nice to see. I am amazed at how high your knees sit above your splash pan. I'll have to look at more throwers as mine, small female are lower. I have my feet on..blocks of clay already..

Ah goldilocks at work here:-)))) There must e an ideal climate zone somewhere for potter'. Perhaps we can go forth and colonize it

Do a few "normally"! How long did it take to learn to throw? Well the other way will be quicker because you bring along the feel of the clay, and the basic technique and positioning which you had to learn first time around......speed of wheel and so on Do you centre on the normal side...just trying to work out how weird things Are?? Doing it both ways would certainly even up the wear and tear on the body. Maybe I'll go back to my natural side ...

Could be that you spend some time at the beginning of a work day throwing on the other side. A former moderator here had a set of throwing lessons which started with throwing a number of cylinders with set weight etc . I start my day by throwing s number of cylinders which are smahed....gets the feel of the clay of the day and my brain focussed on the job not remaining in the day's trivia... Because I am ambidextrous I would focus on learning left hand actions from time to time so I was able to help or demo for those sinister students. Amazing no. of folk on this forum are lefties...

Does your wheel turn clockwise? I threw exactly as you do but with the wheel still turningcounterclock wise. I think because I do lots of practical stuff l.handed. A friend insisted I should persist doing as others do as the clay was coming at me...her words.... prob ruined my career....didn' know I could get a wheel to accommodate my hand position. Another said sit at the other end. Now I know that person was fooling with my brain Being nearly 3 score years and 10 maybe I'll try again right side of body worn out, nothing to lose. .

Pres I always put my pot kids in the bisque inverted onto the pot..... Don' know why...space saver, I sometimes stack them....

Spoon trays and small pots jugs and vases, and any unglazed chimes etc. No space left untouched. Energy prices rising.....

On a yappy and love your new images in the gallery. One thing about working with clay, your mind gets totally centred in the process. Take care.

nice feet....on your pots Mark! Lots of great pots there, productionpotter extraordinaire!!!

Maybe our biceps are the next integral part of the potter's frame I had a friend photo the above and she returned almost immediately with handcream, nail buffers, cuticle cream and oils I would never have dreamt of.... i did try to show my appreciation... too little too late and I never rememer stuff like that..

Says it all, well almost. too much neglect

Well I understand the sentiments expressed by all. Is it pride, ego or what at play? Any pot made by the potter is a minute spec on her/his path. So you are not happy with that spec and you move on.... You value the spec , sell it You're not happy with it does it matter if some else uses it. Today one only has to Google the potter and you can see the pots of the potter and what ones the potter is happy selling. So what is at play? My cupboard is full of mug seconds . Friends ask why that one is a second and I fill them in. We all drink our tea happily. My cupboard fills. Least used. .op shop. Or fence post. We all like finding treasures

Yeh, not happy with it toss it. I put a number of them on fence posts on the roads around here and they vanish. Planet too depleted to smash stuff which some else had use for. I do put such. In some and donate to street stalls for various charities. I made a commemorative book ,2 actually, not happy with one I contacted the client and told her to find another potter. She did. So months later I dropped off her pot details, my stencils And the cracked book. Never do this. She then cancelled her order with other potter and she displays my flawed pot in her guesthouse, all for free And to my distaste.