i FINALLY designed & am producing my own texture tools! after many years of using found items like pastry cutters, cement & saw blades, toy truck tires, etc, i designed my own! while these were fun to use, they would clog up quickly & leave less texture marks. so i made mine with deep grooves.
i had access to those star trek type 3D printers
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and made really fun tools & pots, but they were not something that could be manufactured traditionally. they certainly couldn't be sold for under $20.
so i designed a basic texture disk that slips over a screw onto a handle. if you stack these disks different ways you get different results in your textured pot or slab.
i usually throw the cylinder, texture the walls, and stretch out the pot. even if i screw up pot the walls can be used for slab work.
feel free to see the pictures on my webpage.
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see ya
steve