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2nd November 2008, 08:25 PM #1
Pottery tools
My son has been asking (nagging) for pottery tools
I said I'd make some. tea lady, thanks for your advice (always go to a renowned expert I say )
His first request was a knife (what is it with boys). I also made an awl and a wire cutty thingy (a garrotte?)
The knife is a piece of old fence post and hacksaw blade, awl is myrtle and a nail, garrotte is brushbox and some picture wire. All finished with the dictator's shellawax
[If this should be in the tools and jigs section then apologies to the mod whom moves it.]
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2nd November 2008, 08:31 PM #2
Ooooooh! Makes mine look very poor. But then I didn't have a dad to make me such nice tools. My next project I think.
anne-maria.
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2nd November 2008, 09:02 PM #3
What can be nicer than doing this for your own son.
It looks good, it's great!!!
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2nd November 2008, 09:08 PM #4
special, very special!
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2nd November 2008, 09:18 PM #5Banned
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Looking good there Sawdust , great timber and finish .
Nice metal work too mate .
Its woodturning , so its gotta stay here eh
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3rd November 2008, 01:38 PM #6
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3rd November 2008, 09:02 PM #7
Thank you all for your positive comments.
that's about the limit of my expertise. Can use a grinder except for sharpening turning tools
His pottery teacher also commented favourably. She said that I even managed to get the materials right - copper ferrules and stainless metal. I had to come clean and confess that the nail is normal bright steel. Can you get stainless nails?
If I adopted TL, I'd have grandkids And I reckon I'm too young (and my oldest is merely 11)
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3rd November 2008, 11:35 PM #9anne-maria.
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3rd November 2008, 11:49 PM #10Banned
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4th November 2008, 12:55 AM #11
Nice work.
A second copy of the knife can be made into a narrow parting tool. I think Gil Jones has a few like that.
And the wire thing, with or without different wire sizes, can be used for burning rings in turned wood.
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4th November 2008, 08:18 AM #12
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4th November 2008, 08:52 AM #13Woodturner
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Nice work on the pottery tooling for your Son.
After I broke the first 1" off my SS 6" fish fillet knife (see link)>> http://www.joessports.com/product/in...oductId=967908 << it then became my very thin parting tool (after a bit if re-grinding, and blunting the cutting edge).
As for stainless steel nails, I do not know, but you can buy SS round bar stock, reasonably priced, in 72" sticks of various diameters >> http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PARTPG=INLMK32 <<
I would think it is also available in Australia.
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4th November 2008, 01:40 PM #14
Gil
have you a photo of the parting knife?
or is it a lot like the son's knife
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4th November 2008, 03:47 PM #15Woodturner
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When it was new, it looked just like the knife in the link on my post.
Here is a pic of it now. I use it very often as a parting tool for small work. The blade is fairly stiff stainless steel, and is 1.36mm thick at the tip, and 1.6mm thick where it enters the handle.
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