My 3D printed bottle neck reamers and tool handles - because sometimes you just need the exact right tool
I absolutely am the kind of person who designs my way out of problems. My brain just naturally goes to “How can I build something better?” So when I encountered a pottery frustration – getting consistent bottle necks – designing a solution felt like the obvious next step.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. On pottery forums I saw people talking about something called Mason stains, things that they seemed to be using to colour clay. I swear, in every thread someone would pop up and say “my community studio doesn’t let us use Mason stains, what else can I use?”.
A huge crack all around the bottom of my wedging spiral, the clay just split open like rising sourdough, that’s what happened the first time I reclaimed porcelain.
Not exactly what I wanted to see, and it reminded me of my instructor talking about a friend who never reclaimed their porcelain. Had I just destroyed 4kg of clay?