Using Gears or Roulette Tall and Flat Forms

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More detailed presentation in th elink below:
Surface Texture Tools Use and Tricks - Potter's Wheel. Lakeside Pottery Ceramic school and Art Studio in Stamford Connecticut

Roulette is a technique used to texture the pot while it is turning. You apply the gear (see a few options below) to the clay while the pot is turning which turns the gear. Typically, the texture is created when the pot's walls are vertical and a bit thicker. When done with the texture, the pots shape can be changes to create a nonlinear potters. See video link


Gear - Tall form Video



Flat form gear texture.

Gear Texture side view

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[stevegraber]

i love it! an excelent example of roulette texture on a surface! it's captured me for years, and the use of gears like this do excelent results. one hint is to go to your local AMCO transmission service shop and see if you can get scrap gears from old transmissions. toy truck tires often have excelent texturing capabilities. my first item used was a kitchen pastry cutter. in time i found some pizza cutters had really sharp gears which worked nicely until the clogged up. i also found a paint roller in home depot once that had pimples on it to hold the roller on. ~ except now my local home depot doesn't know what i'm talking about. michaels sometimes sells little star pieces of wood that can make fun patterns. of course, buy a Steve Tool for still further deep textures.

i'll read what's next but texturing OVER a piece that was slipped with a contrasting claybody can also yield wild fun results! warning: it's adictive!

see ya

steve (the steve tool guy. www.graberspottery.com )