Hi everyone!
I have been trying to learn to do the japanese wedging. It looks soooo simple and relaxing when my teacher does it, but I just can't get the hang of it. While her wedged pieces have a lovely knob in the middle and the clay goes neatly back from the coil, I have a hole in the middle making a potential air source.
Anyone have any links to good, illustrated instructions - or to somewhere where there are examples of wedging wrongly and why it is wrong?
Marianne
I had the same problem for years :-) it requires a small shift towards the centre in the way you apply pressure. difficult to describe but that's how I solved it.
Steve Bath UK
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Geez, I must be more tired than I thought - when I looked at the subject I thought it said Japanese WEDDING problems and couldn't figure out how on earth this had anything to do with clay.......
Good thing the semester is over, grades are out and commencement is finished - I could be in some serious trouble.
Time for some serious clay therapy. :)
Lori
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ROFL!!!
I only wish it were that easy! ;-)
Marianne - planned more weddings than wedged successfully! ;-)
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