Hello Everyone, Does anyone know of something I could use to gage the opening on a candleholder, the kind that you open off center and pull a saucer and then pull the actual candlestick then attach a little finger handle? Sort of early American looking. It seems like I can't get the holes uniform in size and the right size to hold a long candle. I think a
35mm film canister would be too big. Thanks, Sandi
No short answers. You need to work out the percentage of shrinkage in your particular clay at the temps you fire to. Then work it out from there,
Sandi: For a 13% shrinkage clay, I use a soda bottle cap. The kind that screws onto a plastic soda bottle. Tapering it in as it goes toward the bottom solves all the problems :>) Really depends on the shrinkage, and the size of the candle, though, doesn't it? Hope that helps
Thanks wayneinkeywest, I will try the bottle cap. It sounds like it will work for me. Sandi
you'll have to find various assorments of stuff & toys to try out.
start with a long thick coil of clay, and squash into it various found objects. 35mm canister, bottle caps, wooden rods from the store, etc.
identify each cavity by what made it.
fire the slab & hang it by your wheel to remind you the final sizes of each new tool.
you'll find something just right for the tool.
don't forget other shapes might work fine or even better - like gears & gear teeth, even square or non-round shapes that still have some symmetry in them.
see ya
steve
steve graber
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