Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Understand house having an attitude. Years ago, our starter home that we never moved from had an attitude. Doors we knew were closed were open, footsteps sounded in the middle of the night, things in the attic were moved around, doors would slam without any reason. Disconcerting! Over the years, we have made major changes to the house, stripped rooms to bare walls and redone, added space with bump outs at old porches, created different movement patterns by consolidating smaller rooms, and made a bathroom suite across the back of the second floor while adding a downstairs bath. House is now quite quiet. I guess things are at rest or it wasn't home anymore. We did find out that there was a tragedy when someone died in a burning kitchen, evidenced from framing exposed during a kitchen renovation a few years ago.
 
best,
Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Reposted as I had it in the wrong strand!  These are a few from the last load.
 
 

 
 

 
 
best, 
Pres

Understand house having an attitude. Years ago, our starter home that we never moved from had an attitude. Doors we knew were closed were open, footsteps sounded in the middle of the night, things in the attic were moved around, doors would slam without any reason. Disconcerting! Over the years, we have made major changes to the house, stripped rooms to bare walls and redone, added space with bump outs at old porches, created different movement patterns by consolidating smaller rooms, and made a bathroom suite across the back of the second floor while adding a downstairs bath. House is now quite quiet. I guess things are at rest or it wasn't home anymore. We did find out that there was a tragedy when someone died in a burning kitchen, evidenced from framing exposed during a kitchen renovation a few years ago.
 
best,
Pres

Understand house having an attitude. Years ago, our starter home that we never moved from had an attitude. Doors we knew were closed were open, footsteps sounded in the middle of the night, things in the attic were moved around, doors would slam without any reason. Disconcerting! Over the years, we have made major changes to the house, stripped rooms to bare walls and redone, added space with bump outs at old porches, created different movement patterns by consolidating smaller rooms, and made a bathroom suite across the back of the second floor while adding a downstairs bath. House is now quite quiet. I guess things are at rest or it wasn't home anymore. We did find out that there was a tragedy when someone died in a burning kitchen, evidenced from framing exposed during a kitchen renovation a few years ago.
 
best,
Pres

Understand house having an attitude. Years ago, our starter home that we never moved from had an attitude. Doors we knew were closed were open, footsteps sounded in the middle of the night, things in the attic were moved around, doors would slam without any reason. Disconcerting! Over the years, we have made major changes to the house, stripped rooms to bare walls and redone, added space with bump outs at old porches, created different movement patterns by consolidating smaller rooms, and made a bathroom suite across the back of the second floor while adding a downstairs bath. House is now quite quiet. I guess things are at rest or it wasn't home anymore. We did find out that there was a tragedy when someone died in a burning kitchen, evidenced from framing exposed during a kitchen renovation a few years ago.
 
best,
Pres

As there have not been any new questions in the question pool, I will pose an old question.  QotW: What is your studio companion lately? This for some of you may be a pet, or it may be a radio, or a television or some other device . . . CD player. . . 8 track tape?  At any rate, I pose the question.
I have a television in my studio, and use old movies or movies that I don't have to watch to keep me company. Long hours of wedging and throwing can be repetitive and to some degree boring. The tv adds a little noise and on occasion I do watch. Lately though, I have been wondering about putting an Echo Dot in the studio. The prices right now are really low. it is voice controlled, and can play off of a variety of streaming services both free and for subscription. I prefer free! It will also play audio books. Might be a possibility. What are your thoughts?
 
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Pres

About 5 years before retiring from teaching, I was commissioned to throw 2000 vessels for a religious retreat, the particular even was called "Filling your Vessel". Truth be told I decided to take the job as I needed to improve my skills at throwing off the hump. I would seem to get "s" cracks in everything. By the time I was done, no "s" cracks. They disappeared after about the 300th vessel. Makes life easier today when throwing off the hump.  A lot can be learned from repetitive throwing, even though not changing forms is quite boring, IMPO. 
 
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Pres

Denice, compression seemed to be the key, but it was not consistently so. I wondered about that, and went to Hamer for research, and then to several other sources before seeing a video of an Asian potter throwing off the hump. He would create a pancake, then raise the pancake edges up into the walls and complete the throwing and the shaping. Why you would ask, but after Hamer, I knew. The pancake caused the walls to wrap in the corner with no particle irregularity. Partly because the walls were pulled outward first allowing compression, then as turned into the side walls the movement from the base to the wall the particles were aligned. Hard to imagine without images, but it does work very well.
 
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Pres

Denice, compression seemed to be the key, but it was not consistently so. I wondered about that, and went to Hamer for research, and then to several other sources before seeing a video of an Asian potter throwing off the hump. He would create a pancake, then raise the pancake edges up into the walls and complete the throwing and the shaping. Why you would ask, but after Hamer, I knew. The pancake caused the walls to wrap in the corner with no particle irregularity. Partly because the walls were pulled outward first allowing compression, then as turned into the side walls the movement from the base to the wall the particles were aligned. Hard to imagine without images, but it does work very well.
 
best,
Pres

As there have not been any new questions in the question pool, I will pose an old question.  QotW: What is your studio companion lately? This for some of you may be a pet, or it may be a radio, or a television or some other device . . . CD player. . . 8 track tape?  At any rate, I pose the question.
I have a television in my studio, and use old movies or movies that I don't have to watch to keep me company. Long hours of wedging and throwing can be repetitive and to some degree boring. The tv adds a little noise and on occasion I do watch. Lately though, I have been wondering about putting an Echo Dot in the studio. The prices right now are really low. it is voice controlled, and can play off of a variety of streaming services both free and for subscription. I prefer free! It will also play audio books. Might be a possibility. What are your thoughts?
 
best, 
Pres

Reminds me of making 125- 2 inch baby vases for a friends wedding. Pro bono deal
felt great when done-one was at every table place setting for each guest.

It is! I like that none of them match, well not intentionally. Opposite of how I usually work.

These are waiting for glaze firing tomorrow or next.

Not on my workbench, but to let you know what I have been doing. These shots were from delivery of pieces to Savannah Bee on June 24th.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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I bought one in January for my workroom. I like that it is voice controlled but would really recommend syncing a bluetooth speaker to it. The Echo speaker is okay for listening to the news or talk radio etc but for music I find the sound quality is pretty bad, worse when you crank up the volume. 
@Hulk, I don't think my wheel is ever that clean! 
 

I have full blown large set of speakers(cerwin-vega) in studio also a set in outer kiln loading area-and 5 more sets spread around like kitchen living room salt kiln-office all hooked to two 300 cd disc players and also can pipem pandora thru the system.Most speakers have their own volume control nearby. The players and amp is in the living room so its dust free.There is a 8 speaker control as well. Player goes all day on shuffle .Or pandora on a shuffle mix .
Music is must for me. 

These are waiting for glaze firing tomorrow or next.

These are waiting for glaze firing tomorrow or next.

These are waiting for glaze firing tomorrow or next.

Not on my workbench, but to let you know what I have been doing. These shots were from delivery of pieces to Savannah Bee on June 24th.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
best, Pres