Making a good impression
Jun. 21st, 2021 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrMy next firing is late July, preparing for a trip to Anacortes in August, so I really should start making pots. Even though it's hot. And I'm also prepping for the show in Roseburg this weekend--have I mentioned I have a show in Roseburg this weekend?
But I have an order for 40 more mugs for Great Harvest Bakery, and this time, they're paying actual cash money (because I still have so much bread credit from the last order).
I was digging through my toolbox and found a wood-block anvil I used to use for coil-building demos in my teaching days. I realized with a little refurbishing, I could use it to make much cleaner impressions from the logo rubber stamp. So I got out my chop saw and belt sander, adjusted the length and fiddled with the curvature, then screwed on a scrap bamboo handle. The result:
A very clean, consistent impression, and much less deformation of the mugs.
But I have an order for 40 more mugs for Great Harvest Bakery, and this time, they're paying actual cash money (because I still have so much bread credit from the last order).
I was digging through my toolbox and found a wood-block anvil I used to use for coil-building demos in my teaching days. I realized with a little refurbishing, I could use it to make much cleaner impressions from the logo rubber stamp. So I got out my chop saw and belt sander, adjusted the length and fiddled with the curvature, then screwed on a scrap bamboo handle. The result:
A very clean, consistent impression, and much less deformation of the mugs.