This set up makes a really cool "X" type texture. Of course you'll want to buy a second Steve Tool to help finish this...
Consider making a piece of wood about 1/4 thick, 3 1/2 long. (see the picture to the right).
Drill three 1/4 inch holes in it. Get another 1/4-20 screw from a hardware store. Assemble the bridge to your handle. Put together a helix left on one side. Helix right on the other. ~ or mess around with other combinations.
Use a Strobe Light!
Matt thought the use of a strobe light would help *see* the texture as it develops while throwing. He set up a simple strobe light. Well, it WORKS! it adds another element to throwing textured pots. Try it. http://www.matthewtaylorattorney.com/
Steve Tool friends:
Please see Lee's excelent pots:
www.LeeMiddleman.com
See our ad in Clay Times Magazine
http://www.claytimes.com/
Very good potter friend Nancy Pene:
www.claypenetration.com
Another potter friend Charles:
http://www.hughespottery.com/index.html
Of course we always need MORE tools!
MKM Pottery Tools
http://www.mkmpotterytools.com
Paul Nicholas - wood ribs - EXCELENT WORK!
www.mtpleasantpottery.com
This next guy has a BUNCH of links to art general pages.
www.onerateads.com/ceramics.htm
See our ad in Ceramics Monthly
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/
Also our ad in Pottery Making Illustrated
http://www.potterymaking.org/
Pottery Internet Resource
http://www.desertdragonpottery.com/faqs/netfaq.html
TONS of pottery links!
http://www.sdpottery.com/Pottery_Links.htm
Mishy's bunch of pottery links: http://www.sdpottery.com/Pottery_Links.htm
http://www.desertdragonpottery.com/faqs/netfaq.html
As much as i hate to see you leave our webpage, THIS guys posts a nice list of resources:
Cool Pottery Methods
Black Pots
I read in Ceramics Monthly around the early 1990's how to make Black Pots like the old indian pottery. The trick was to use graphite mixed in salad oil. Apply it to bisqueware. Place the piece in a can and cover it with saw dust. Cap the can. Fire in your kiln until "can red".
With the Steve Tool i get what i call "low budget" indian pottery ~ pot with shapes and geometric designs similar to American Indian pots.
Graphite is a special form of carbon and any new carbon converts to graphite in the presence of graphite. Get graphite powder from plastic molding houses. ~ places that do injection molding of plastic parts or from suppliers of plastic pigment material.
Plastic suppliers are great sources for other material such as Fluorescent glow powders that i've used on raku pieces.
"Oh, I meant to say, I liked your "hints" section of the tool directions enclosed with the tool. I recognized some of the hints from my own experience with texturing. Well done. Lee "
