hobby #138 · 2 days
Pottery Wheel Throwing
Centering clay on a wheel, shaping vessels with thumb pressure and rib tools, trimming foot rings, and firing in kilns. Hand-building bowls, mugs, plates, and sculptural forms from wet clay.
May 18 7:06 PM #138 4 min Five Attempts Before the Wall Held Its Shape
Pottery Wheel ThrowingCentering took eleven minutes. Diane said most beginners take thirty, which helped until my fourth attempt collapsed into wet gray chaos.
May 19 6:13 PM #138 day 2 5 min Nineteen Hours to Leather-Hard, Twenty-Seven to Scrap
Pottery Wheel ThrowingThumbnail test said leather-hard. Loop tool said otherwise. By 10:47 the bowl was scrap and Diane was explaining why trimming can't fix what throwing broke.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
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