penumbra
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With your carving skills the wheel could be holding you back.
Mame pots on a mini pottery wheel
- Thread starter Pitoon
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Pitoon
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It's difficult coming up with designs for the round mame pots. It's going to be tough for the hand built mame's.
penumbra
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Nah!
You won't have any problem. And you can make half a dozen identical pots and finish them differently. Consider a plethora of glazes, several clay bodies, oxides and stains and textures.
You won't have any problem. And you can make half a dozen identical pots and finish them differently. Consider a plethora of glazes, several clay bodies, oxides and stains and textures.
I'm sure they will awesome!
Pitoon
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I finished this post yesterday. This one will most likely be fired unglazed.
Pitoon
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New mold of a specific foot I made for a pot. Unfortunately I damaged the mold when I removed the original sculpted foot. The feet can be easily cleaned up.
Forsoothe!
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What's your mold made of?
Pitoon
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Pottery plaster #1
Forsoothe!
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Ever tried urethane or silicone? More permanent.
penumbra
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Plaster draws moisture from the clay and releases it with no agent. And it is released it right away when you need to work on it or attach it right away. Except for self hardening, oven baked and play clays, all pottery molds are made of either plaster or bisque-ware clay for this reason. Also, although silicone can be used for a few things, you have to either flex it, spoiling the design, or use a release agent which interferes with connecting pieces. I have pottery molds that have been used hundreds of times.
Only a potter could know this.
Pitoon
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Silicone could have it's use but not in this situation. One could make a model, then cast a mold of that model. You would have a mold of that said piece.
If you want to go into production you take that original mold and ensure it's as perfect as it can be. Then you make silicone mold of that original plaster mold. That original plaster mold is now the master mold. The silicone molds are molds of the master mold. You can now make an infinite amount of plaster molds from the silicone mold and each will be identical. Instead of working with one mold you can now work with a dozen at the same time and pull out the same exact piece from each mold. This particularly works well with slip casting........which I plan to get into later this summer for a particular pot I want to make and mass produce.
Stay tuned
Pitoon
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Just finished attaching the feet that I made using the mold and detailing the pot. This one I plan to glaze......just don't know which glaze yet.
Pitoon
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Would anyone like to guess what this will become?
TinyArt
Chumono
Is it aluminum... For machining a pottery wheel... For shohin-sized pots???
Pitoon
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Bingo!!!! I'm hoping to squeeze out two wheel heads from this blank of aluminum.Is it aluminum... For machining a pottery wheel... For shohin-sized pots???
LittleDingus
Omono
Pitoon
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I finished this pot up a couple days ago. I got some underglaze in because I want to start painting on some pots. I knew I had some white clay, but didn't know what type. When I ordered it I told the woman on the phone I need the cheapest white body clay you have so I could use it for mold making. Last night I looked at the clay number and saw that this clay body is a low firing clay.....really low. So this pot will be a test subject for my painting and will eventually be a keeper. This clay after fully matured has a 15% absorption rate which is quite high....almost equivalent to terra cotta. Still a nice looking pot, let's see how it looks after I do a little painting on it.
El Duderino
Yamadori
@Pitoon, I've finally finished reading this entire thread. I figured since I'd entered the contest, I should at least know the whole story. Wow! What you've accomplished since January is remarkable. You are a true craftsman. I look forward to continuing to follow this journey. Also, if you still need any WordPress help, I'm happy to assist. Thanks for the inspiration, the beautiful craftsmanship and for sharing this entire process with us.
Pitoon
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I've been getting the notifications of your likes over the past several days, thanks for reading through the entire thread. If I run into any more issues with WordPress I'll send over a PM
Pitoon
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Here's another test subject I finished a couple days ago using the low fire clay. Planning to start experimenting with the underglaze this weekend......hopefully.
