Lately, about half the time I trim a piece it ends up deforming pretty severely. It’s a combination of the shape and thinness that I throw. A lot of my pieces are tall (relative term for sure) and delicate … so I just dropped $200 on a griffin grip.
I feel like I just keep buying more and more equipment and supplies for the studio. First we had to get more power pulled to the house for my kiln…which previously needed a new thermocouple…then I needed a sink… lighting…blown kiln relay, more bats, better carving tools…. Learning a new clay body….
Hopefully this is the last big item for a while. It’s getting really frustrating because the cumulative effect is that after months of work I have yet to do a glaze firing. I just want to make all of the things!! Clay gods!!! Y U No Cooperate?!?