Great Video, thanks from a fellow art teacher. I just got a small Brent, and it's not quite as fancy as yours, but I'm hoping it will get the job done. Like you, I like wedging boards and pin rollers, but I have students that can't roll a slab properly, so I'm hoping my new slab roller will be a good tool for them to make good pottery.
Excellent video !! You have he most delightful way of explaining things and keeping them simple at the same time. Guess that's what makes a good teacher, LOL. Thanks for sharing....... Ax
Uh-oh-you mentioned never putting anything through this. When I made tiles, I rolled the clay sandwiched between canvases, but directly under the clay a piece of plain newsprint paper, on top of a piece of drywall w/taped edges-and then let the clay get leather hard on the drywall before carving. Hopefully I didn’t break anything tonight!
Oh- that sounds like you wouldn’t have broken anything! Worst case scenario may have resulted in cracking the drywall!? My darling students have tried putting things like pencils or knives in it which don’t have as much give! Lol!
@@KaransPotsAndGlass Thank you. I am scratching my head if this can be made to work for printmaking. If so, I'll save good money over etching press of this size. Also, I hope the textured roller wont be a problem when used with good blankets.
@@KaransPotsAndGlass If I may persist... do you think if I lay a polymer sheet on bottom roller, it will lay flat across the slab roller inbuilt bed(s) on either side of bottom roller and the bottom roller itself and slide forward or backward with the crank movement ? Thanks in anticipation !
Anything you want to make with slabs! Here is a playlist of textured slab videos to show just some of what you can do! Best Textured Slab Videos- Ceramics II- with Focal Accent. ua-cam.com/play/PLj0pNzEmvM_r9a5f85ZyTrqrP3SmHFKQS.html
You certainly could... but in my room, my canvas is so enormous- it really is much bigger than my students need to transport it! (I really want my kids to know how to pick up a slab!) . :)
How I wish I had been at your high school because your clay teaching is OUTSTANDING.
What a wonderful teacher you are! You explain everything so well! Lucky students!
Great Video, thanks from a fellow art teacher. I just got a small Brent, and it's not quite as fancy as yours, but I'm hoping it will get the job done. Like you, I like wedging boards and pin rollers, but I have students that can't roll a slab properly, so I'm hoping my new slab roller will be a good tool for them to make good pottery.
Excellent video !! You have he most delightful way of explaining things and keeping them simple at the same time. Guess that's what makes a good teacher, LOL. Thanks for sharing....... Ax
Awwww! Thank you!!! :-)
Uh-oh-you mentioned never putting anything through this. When I made tiles, I rolled the clay sandwiched between canvases, but directly under the clay a piece of plain newsprint paper, on top of a piece of drywall w/taped edges-and then let the clay get leather hard on the drywall before carving. Hopefully I didn’t break anything tonight!
Oh- that sounds like you wouldn’t have broken anything! Worst case scenario may have resulted in cracking the drywall!? My darling students have tried putting things like pencils or knives in it which don’t have as much give! Lol!
Fantastic demonstration thank you
Very helpful, thank you!
Do you think this can double as etching press please... with good quality felt blankets ?
I guess? I've never tried it with it. And I haven't done etching for over 30 years! :) . I think you'd have to have boards too, if I remember?
@@KaransPotsAndGlass Thank you. I am scratching my head if this can be made to work for printmaking. If so, I'll save good money over etching press of this size. Also, I hope the textured roller wont be a problem when used with good blankets.
@@KaransPotsAndGlass If I may persist... do you think if I lay a polymer sheet on bottom roller, it will lay flat across the slab roller inbuilt bed(s) on either side of bottom roller and the bottom roller itself and slide forward or backward with the crank movement ? Thanks in anticipation !
@@rang....-._.-....0. I honestly don't know- sorry- I can't picture it! :)
Great teacher!
Thanks for the demonstration. I’m wondering what could you do with that?
Anything you want to make with slabs! Here is a playlist of textured slab videos to show just some of what you can do! Best Textured Slab Videos- Ceramics II- with Focal Accent. ua-cam.com/play/PLj0pNzEmvM_r9a5f85ZyTrqrP3SmHFKQS.html
thanks
Why not pick up the slab with the cloth under it? I would think that is a lot more stable than using hands and arms to support.
You certainly could... but in my room, my canvas is so enormous- it really is much bigger than my students need to transport it! (I really want my kids to know how to pick up a slab!) . :)
yooooo my class has one