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offcntrBat. Either a) a wooden, plastic or plaster disk that attaches to a wheel head to make it possible to remove wide or fragile pots safely from the wheel while wet or b) a plaster slab or tub for drying out slip for recycling into clay. Etymology unknown, and it never made sense to me that the same term is used for two such different objects.
Giffin grip. An expensive, over-designed device that clamps onto the wheel head and re-centers and holds pots in place for trimming. Real potters don't need crutches like this, preferring to tap their pots on center and hold them in place with clay wads. (/sarcasm) I actually own two of them, though to be fair, I won the second one as a prize for Best in Show at Clay Fest. I did finally learn how to tap pots on center, and feel vaguely guilty using the Giffin, but it's so fast and easy, and besides, I bought it in 1984 and it's still trimming pots, so the price is now tenths of a cent per pot and still amortizing.
Giffin grip. An expensive, over-designed device that clamps onto the wheel head and re-centers and holds pots in place for trimming. Real potters don't need crutches like this, preferring to tap their pots on center and hold them in place with clay wads. (/sarcasm) I actually own two of them, though to be fair, I won the second one as a prize for Best in Show at Clay Fest. I did finally learn how to tap pots on center, and feel vaguely guilty using the Giffin, but it's so fast and easy, and besides, I bought it in 1984 and it's still trimming pots, so the price is now tenths of a cent per pot and still amortizing.