MEETING REPORT ]

At the April meeting Gordon Wong demonstrated some pottery tools which he has made after careful research into how they were made and used in other times and other places.

Two ways of lifting pots off the wheel:

l. With two wooden scocps with the "mouth" cut to the exact size for a certain type of pot for a production

run. You slip then under the edge of the pot from

opposite sides and lift. Use fairly stiff clay.

Han DLE

EDGE ANGLE BAck "(To GET UNDER PoT)

} With two 3/4" strips of bamboo about 18" to 2! long, you slip the curved edges of the bamboo under thea edge of the pot from either side and lift off, holding the strips together. Glay should not be

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too soft. The strips of bamboo come off a fairly large bamboo, from a bamboo cutter.

WHEEL

BAM@s, sTIPS Pot