attaching bats without bins.

attaching bats without bins.

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• wheel
• sticky

[leeuw666]

halo,

How do you the plate from the bat pls?

thx, Gerda from Belguim

[timseepots]

Hi Gerda, you just need to run a wire underneath the plate. when the plate is dry enough you can lift it up. Others that have used plaster bats more may suggest not using a wire and that the plaster will let the plate release when it is ready.

[sven77b]

question: when you use plaster bats, do you use them dry or whet? I suppose they are easely home made, I have lot's of experience using plaster but none using plaster as a bat on the wheel.

I also wonder, If you use them dry (as it seems from the video) don't they easly come off the wheel?

thanks, evelien

[timseepots]

The advantage is to use them dry. so it dry the pot from the bottom too. If you dampen it a bit when you apply the ball the pot shouldn't pop off. now the underside does release fairly easy when you pull up but no so easy it comes off when you throw

[Sorka42]

I use one of those extra long denim aprons when I throw, and I use a kick wheel. I usually don't bother with the leg ties. One day one of the ties got wrapped around the wheel shaft while i was centering. I almost did a face-plant into the clay ball when the apron looped around my neck pulled me down. Actually ripped the stitching out of tries around my waist the trying to resist the pull while tring to stop the wheel.

[timseepots]

OMG your lucky to be alive that will just pull you apart. reason number one not to wear an apron.

[melissaplexy]

I lost a tiny strip of leather that I use to smooth off the top of my work in some of my reclaimed clay. I found it while throwing an awesome huge pot and had to trim off below and finish the pot as another project. The worst thing anyone else has done TO ME on a wheel.....was to push on my foot pedal and make MY VERY FIRST MUG fly off and land nearby. Why was the mug on the wheel while adding the handle? It was a very crowded college studio and no room to work.I kept the mug anyway. Memories.

[leeuw666]

THX!

[sven77b]

thanks for the info,

love all your posts by the way,

I send a link to all my students

very usefull info!! Thanks!!

[Marihani]

I hope when you do that, you wear a mask and air out well before working without the mask again. The advantage of using water is that you don't get all that fine dust floating around.

[aaroncole007]

I was using a tile insert bat system when a tile that wasn't quite stuck down lifted up and caught an edge in the tile holder.... the tile with pot attached flew six feet away into a block wall. I forgot to mention that it glanced off my leg first. Left a huge cut and bruise on my leg and the tile exploded when it hit the wall.

[teriberi1960]

heh heh, I've thrown a few on my wheel as well