Tuesday at class, Ron did a demo of a kind teapot that Ron Meyers makes. He showed us how to put the different parts together. Above, he's cut and putting a slab on the bottom of the wheel-thrown body of it. 
It's got a parallelogram kinda shape. Quite different. I like it. Maybe one afternoon, I'll make one.Ron's always available to help give tips to our throwing. On this night, he gave me some great feedback about my trimming and making the foot (bottom part) of the pot. The goal is to have the foot be symmetrical to the inside of the bottom of the pot. Hard to explain; I knew this, but I 'get' it in a different way now. Ron drew this:
The wine is mine. After this, I went back to all my 10 pots that I had trimmed and re-trimmed them; they look even better now and are a bit lighter. Thanks, Ron! Soon, I'll post the results of this... 
3 comments:
Hi Amy, can you tell me more about the foot being symetrical to the inside of the pot. I think I need help on this. Perhaps I need to start looking at more pots. I was just glazing some of my pinch pots and wondering if I could improve them. Great post.
Linda,
Great to hear from you. Look at the drawing in the last pic to see more of what I'm trying to say. The bottom right pic and the one above it shows how the inside of the foot is symmetrical to the bottom of the pot. Doing this also takes some extra weight off of the pot. Hard to explain... Does this help? This also means going deep when one is trimming the foot, so the bottom isn't so thick.
Hi Amy, I think I see what you mean. I made some little pinch pots, but I looked at them and thought the foot was too small. Perhaps I need to look at them again, maybe they are ok. In the past I have just concentrated on making pieces and now I am trying to look at them more critically. Thanks.
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