secret_salt_shaker.mov

Rob Sutherland of Good Dirt Ceramics Studio in Athens GA demonstrates a Warren MacKenzie-style secret salt shaker.

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• secret salt shaker
• Warren MacKenzie
• pottery
• ceramics
• wheel throwing

[sealeymorris]

ivolucien is exactly right- fill it up with salt from that bottom hole-- the same hole that will then allow you to fool those at your dinner table as you sprinkle salt from what looks like a closed form. It's a Warren Mackenzie trick originally-- my teacher (the potter in the video) learned it from a workshop of his.

[bigbutt361]

@gooblet7 right???!!!

[potterylady1]

How much clay!!!!

[gooblet7]

how the hell does that work?

[ivolucien]

It looks to me that when it's finished, you fill it with salt by turning it upside down and pouring salt into what effectively is a funnel (the inner cone with the 1/8th inch hole) and when you turned it right side up the salt would (mostly?) fall into the enclosed chamber. When you pick it up right side up and shake it, salt would fly up inside the chamber and a small amount would fall back down through the 1/8 inch hole, so the salt would sprinkle out the bottom of the shaker.

[TheRakuman]

closed form...what do you do to finish it? How do you put salt in it and how do you use it?

[TheRakuman]

Umm... okay, but show us how it works when it is glazed and finished