bonsaial1

Thanks Dale for the abridged version. Sorry your post was taken by the delete gremlin.

I hope you do not feel like my post here or on the peeves thread was directed at you or any one in particular. This is just a phenonon, phenoman, phenonom...trend that I see more here in the states. I absolutely have no problem with you making round pots by the suitcase full. If you sell all you make, thats gravy in the boat.

That thread was about peeves. That was a personal peeve, and was really not meant to actually be disussed as all the peeves in that thread. I think I may have hit a nerve and you felt this needed a little defending.

I hope you also see my point, and you do have to admit that out of all the pots you have posted here, you have probably not shown more than three or four rectangle pots.

I tend to like shohin size trees. There was a period of time when I bought so many shohin round pots from American potters that all I seemed to have was round pots. In fact if you look in the archives about the GSBF convention in Fresno in 2003, Shinji Suzuki did a critique on a shohin rack that I displayed. The first thing he said about the display was that all the trees were in fricken round pots. I have not bought a round pot since!

So this may be a little personal for me, not so much so for others out there.

Thanks, Al

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