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Join Date: May-2005
Location: Puyallup WA
Country: USA
Posts: 182
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Thank you Dale. I appreciate you for taking the time to share your experience and skill.
I believe I understand your meaning when you say learning the basic skill to produce a desired effect rather than leaning on techniques that produces the effect, like a crutch. You're correct when you say that sanding frowned upon. The person who owns the private pottery studio where I have my pots fired gave me the same "tsk tsk" when she looked closely at the pots and asked if I sanded them.
She is an excellent potter with years of experience and she showed me that using a wide metal, spring steel scraper and flattening the slab, pressing the grog into the clay and allowing the slab to slowly reduce moisture content and dry to a level greater than I was previously using is the right way to do it. In addition, she demostrated the use of terra-sigalatta and burnishing, which I recently began experimenting with.
I have also learned that texture on pots is a very cool thing. I recently have been experimenting with using very wet clay and using tools (actually a dinner fork) to etch the wet clay.
I thank you very much for sharing your wisdom.
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