Korean Kick Wheel

[CRAIG]

Hello All; With all the great plans that Mike posted about the Korean style wheel,  a friend wanted to see one in action.  I've posted two videos on my blog to show how the wheel works.  http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/
I hope that you enjoy them.


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Make Good Pots
~Craig
New London MN
http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/

[Hank Murrow]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 4:14 PM, CRAIG wrote:

Hello All; With all the great plans that Mike posted about the Korean style wheel,  a friend wanted to see one in action.  I've posted two videos on my blog to show how the wheel works.  http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/
I hope that you enjoy them.

Oh my........ brilliant!  Unnerving  so simple it's painful/wonderful to watch.

Cheers, Hank

[Ann Brink]

All I can say is "Wow", and thanks.

Ann Brink in Lompoc CA

[Paul Herman]

Craig,

Great video. His techniqueis very much like a guy we saw making onggi at the wood fire conference in Flagstaff.

Thanks,

Paul Herman

Great Basin Pottery

Doyle, California US

www.greatbasinpottery.com/

On Jun 24, 2008, at 4:14 PM, CRAIG wrote:

[CRAIG]

Hank, Ann & Paul; Glad you enjoyed them. He does some variations that I hadn't seen before.  The noise of the paddling can drive you over the top sometimes!!

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Make Good Pots
~Craig
New London MN
http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/

[Mike]

Oh, that's great! I need to learn the two handed squishsmear technique,
and try one of those. Don't think I could fit it in my kiln though, dammit.
That's something like 40kgs of clay, right? How long from start to
finish would that take? He had to let the bottom relax for a bit before
adding the top, right? It had that ringing sound of hardened clay. When
they were hefting it over to the drying area, I had this perverse
thought about a banana peel....

Thanks so much for posting those Craig,

Mike
in Taku, Japan

www.karatsupots.com
karatsupots.etsy.com
karatsupots.blogspot.com
blogs.yahoo.co.jp/karatsupots

CRAIG ????????:

[Swanica Ligtenberg]

Wow, Craig, what a wonderful movies. Very interesting.

Do you make them also like that? Although, I think you start out with throwing a base, isn’t it?

 

Greetings,

Swanica

www.swanceramics.com

 

From: Clay...@googlegroups.com [mailto:Clay...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CRAIG
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:14 AM
To: ClayCraft
Subject: *ClayCraft* Korean Kick Wheel

 

Hello All; With all the great plans that Mike posted about the Korean style wheel,  a friend wanted to see one in action.  I've posted two videos on my blog to show how the wheel works.  http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/

[clay pots]

Mike thanks for the disc-yeah it was great-I'm going to try some things I
saw from it-thanks again-
N. CA is burning up again-now in my county-it has been very high alert for 2
days going on 3-pretty bad outside-no wind clearing it out at all-
so many fires from lightning started on Saturday here-it rained outside for
a short time but lots of lightning near by started lots of fires again-many
evacuated from nearby areas.I have been clearing and hauling stuff still for
the last week or so so much work to do here-maybe impossible to make it
fire safe- later-craig

[CRAIG]

Hello Mike and Swanica: Good to hear from the other side of the world!  Mike, so many questions. Remember you are dealing with an old and feeble person with limited mental capacity. With that in mind, here is my take.
I think the 40kgs for weight sounds about right. I roil out coils that are similar and they weigh 8lbs. and are 22 inches long. I didn't count how many were used, maybe 10?  I don't think that the clay is all that stiff, larger pots resonate differently with their shape. They make all sorts of sounds, hums and echos etc.
I make a similar pot in about 2 hours... so I'm probably thinking less than an hour for him. He was working at a relaxed paced.
Swanica, yup I throw the base with either 20 or 34lbs. and then add coils. That's the way I was taught, although I did get a nice Chinese paddle so I might try some new things.
banana peel.. haha.. I've attached a photo of my pot lifter... I call it the lift-o-matic. Part of the -o-matic line of tools.

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Make Good Pots
~Craig
New London MN
http://woodfiredpottery.blogspot.com/

[Louis Katz]

Good Luck Craig,
Pack a quick go bag that you can grab and run with.
Right a list, prioritized , of things to grab if mnore time presents itself.

ID, Medicine, Insurance, Cell Phone, Credit Cards, CAsh, Some food, Phone numbers, etc,

We have too bug out for hurricanes occasionally and anything you do ahead of the call to evacuate really reduces the stressw and makes it more likely you will be able to get what you can.

Also don't forget to turn off gas lines.

I store kiln shelves for our outdoor kilns inside the kilns when there is a hurricane warning and it seems like this might be a good place to store stuff you want to survive a fire too.

I dont like alarmism but like preparedness.

Louis

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