Babs

My class took place yesterday. The women and a few children had a fine time! 
Gave each a lumo of clay, got them to form into a ball, then hands under the table to shape for a few minutes, then pass to nneighbour, no peeking, x4 so clay now back with original owner, reveal all, keep, or squash.
Lits of laughs, then slab building, or pinching ,  or any of the above, coliured slips, or not..
I had a big bit of paper and they gave their name, drew a sketch of their pots and what glaze they would like listed.
Whew, did they have fun. Exhausted Babs trundled home.
Now to return topack and collect the pots, and home to dry , bisque and glaze. What gutsy folk are out there

@Jeff Longtin                            Wow, didn't think of making slabs for them.!! 
I have a lot of straight preserving "bottles".
I find beginners, unless taught properly, hmm, have quite a lot of failure re coils not squushed, scored and slipped.
Thickish slabs would give the choice of shaping,or/ and texturing.
Thank you Jeff.

I ended up using a variety of depths of plastic tubs with towels on the nottom, newspapwr between the pots, and towels on top. One tall one with an extended foot, think tree roots , had a plastic bucket lined with towels and supported by foam bits all to itself!
All home, on their rims, on the shelves, a few touch up colour slips needed . Tomorrow..
Subaru back full, bucket strapped in to front passenger seat. Left fox terrier at home , too risky, eh!

I ended up using a variety of depths of plastic tubs with towels on the nottom, newspapwr between the pots, and towels on top. One tall one with an extended foot, think tree roots , had a plastic bucket lined with towels and supported by foam bits all to itself!
All home, on their rims, on the shelves, a few touch up colour slips needed . Tomorrow..
Subaru back full, bucket strapped in to front passenger seat. Left fox terrier at home , too risky, eh!

I ended up using a variety of depths of plastic tubs with towels on the nottom, newspapwr between the pots, and towels on top. One tall one with an extended foot, think tree roots , had a plastic bucket lined with towels and supported by foam bits all to itself!
All home, on their rims, on the shelves, a few touch up colour slips needed . Tomorrow..
Subaru back full, bucket strapped in to front passenger seat. Left fox terrier at home , too risky, eh!

Attachments that aren’t stuck on tight are goin to fall off anyway, with vibration. I prefer leather-hard so they don’t dent but can be repaired if a handle falls off  

In the past, I have placed everything on wareboards, still in the leatherhard stage, and transported that way.  I have a Subaru outback, I was able to lay the seats down and accomodate all the wareboards.  I have also transported in low tubs with lids, placed some old towels and rags between things just to keep them from knocking together.  That way I could stack the tubs and get more in the car.  I prefer transporting things in leatherhard stage, rather than dry.  A bit more resilient, I guess.   I have a bumpy rural roads for part of my journey.   Good luck!

I used to do guided practice in the dark, my room was without any windows so complete darkness. I would walk around the room calling out the steps to a pinch pot, and they would work on their 1-2#ball of clay. This actually got much better results than the previous exercises, but then it was the third exercise at pinch pots. However almost every one of the students had  thinner more consistent walls with better form.  My reasoning for the exercise in the dark was tactile pinch control, and being able to trust the touch to the thickness of the walls. Sometimes other senses get in the way of touch.
 
best,
Pres

My class took place yesterday. The women and a few children had a fine time! 
Gave each a lumo of clay, got them to form into a ball, then hands under the table to shape for a few minutes, then pass to nneighbour, no peeking, x4 so clay now back with original owner, reveal all, keep, or squash.
Lits of laughs, then slab building, or pinching ,  or any of the above, coliured slips, or not..
I had a big bit of paper and they gave their name, drew a sketch of their pots and what glaze they would like listed.
Whew, did they have fun. Exhausted Babs trundled home.
Now to return topack and collect the pots, and home to dry , bisque and glaze. What gutsy folk are out there

My class took place yesterday. The women and a few children had a fine time! 
Gave each a lumo of clay, got them to form into a ball, then hands under the table to shape for a few minutes, then pass to nneighbour, no peeking, x4 so clay now back with original owner, reveal all, keep, or squash.
Lits of laughs, then slab building, or pinching ,  or any of the above, coliured slips, or not..
I had a big bit of paper and they gave their name, drew a sketch of their pots and what glaze they would like listed.
Whew, did they have fun. Exhausted Babs trundled home.
Now to return topack and collect the pots, and home to dry , bisque and glaze. What gutsy folk are out there

My class took place yesterday. The women and a few children had a fine time! 
Gave each a lumo of clay, got them to form into a ball, then hands under the table to shape for a few minutes, then pass to nneighbour, no peeking, x4 so clay now back with original owner, reveal all, keep, or squash.
Lits of laughs, then slab building, or pinching ,  or any of the above, coliured slips, or not..
I had a big bit of paper and they gave their name, drew a sketch of their pots and what glaze they would like listed.
Whew, did they have fun. Exhausted Babs trundled home.
Now to return topack and collect the pots, and home to dry , bisque and glaze. What gutsy folk are out there

My class took place yesterday. The women and a few children had a fine time! 
Gave each a lumo of clay, got them to form into a ball, then hands under the table to shape for a few minutes, then pass to nneighbour, no peeking, x4 so clay now back with original owner, reveal all, keep, or squash.
Lits of laughs, then slab building, or pinching ,  or any of the above, coliured slips, or not..
I had a big bit of paper and they gave their name, drew a sketch of their pots and what glaze they would like listed.
Whew, did they have fun. Exhausted Babs trundled home.
Now to return topack and collect the pots, and home to dry , bisque and glaze. What gutsy folk are out there

@Jeff Longtin                            Wow, didn't think of making slabs for them.!! 
I have a lot of straight preserving "bottles".
I find beginners, unless taught properly, hmm, have quite a lot of failure re coils not squushed, scored and slipped.
Thickish slabs would give the choice of shaping,or/ and texturing.
Thank you Jeff.

I know it's off topic but I just love this statement.  

+1
this is what I did for tumblers
 

I think you could properly cut the head from the neck, use a self supporting notch cut Then hollow out the head and the torso separately Rejoin together with a greenware mender and then fire. If done carefully you could finish it quite well, If the neck line cut shows to much camo it with a necklace or choker.
 
best,
Pres 

That's really amazing Jes! 
Another option would be to make a mold of the piece. Use alginate. Apply a small amount to a corner and see how it responds. My guess is that it releases easily. (Perhaps a light spray of water to moisten the surface?)
After you've applied the alginate you would then back it with a plaster "mother" mold.
A bit time consuming but an easy way to capture such fine work.

Here is a photo

(paid more attention to closing up damper for the cool down, and I fired on a fairly thick bed of silica. )
I think this really made the differeance

Just unloaded the kiln today and to my great relief these platters have NO cracks ! I'm so happy to be batting a thousand this go-around. I hope these results continue. What I did was to lift the bottom edge while throwing these forms to round out that area, omitted the grog, paid more attention to closing up damper for the cool down, and I fired on a fairly thick bed of silica. Thank you all so much

Pinch pots can be turned upside down and become bells.  Lin

Slabs are easy and fun--they can drape thin circles over upturned cans/bowls to make free-from bowl shapes (flatten an area on the bottom while still soft). They could make pendants, either free-form or using cutter-shapes (I don't suggest the key fobs tho--that was a bad idea LOL).  Large free-form spoon rests and shallow catchall dishes are also fun. Stamping the slabs 1st before forming makes them look more dramatic when glazed.  Also tea light holders are easy-just need to be flat on top, don't even need a well (top left in the spoon rest pic). If there's no time to get good clay stamps, Home Depot has plenty of drawer knobs that work well. 

If you bisque fired to cone 6, then your clay is no longer porous and will not accept glaze well. You need to bisque fire to a much lower temperature like cone 04. That will harden the clay but it will still be porous for glazing.

Will skutt honor the repair or will you have to have one of their technicians install the new cord? Have you contacted them about what happened? I hope it works out for you.
Graybeard

Just a little additional clarification, LiDAR works by continuous scanning from all angels and would require more than a single shot.  The background would not really matter because it is not using the visual image but laser detected distances in a large point cloud.  You would then have a large data file to export to some processing program. 
Might be a lot easier to just have a series of boxes and the smallest one it fits in is a specific price.