Pottery Shorts: Making Shrinkage Test Bars
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- Welcome to Pottery Shorts, brought to you by The Potter’s Round Table, the topic for this episode is Making Shrinkage Test Bars.
As we all know, clay shrinks in every phase of pottery making. If you are making pots and want to be consistent in the size of the finished product, you need to know how much your clay will shrink. In this episode we will learn how to make shrinkage test bars with your clay to test how much it shrinks.
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Nice job Phil and WSS. I appreciate these pottery shorts. Whenever I see new video has been posted, I drop everything to watch. Love this quick educational videos. Thanks for posting!
Kevin, Thank you for the encouragement, Pottery Shorts are fun! Please share the channel with your friends and fellow potters to help us grow our community!
Great therapy ✊🏼
Thanks Ben, I hope all is well with you!
Wow 🤯 finally I understand this is so helpful loving your videos. So much knowledge thank you for sharing it!!!
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Simply awesome! Thank you~
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Thank you so very much. Now that I’ve got my shrink rate, I’m still struggling with making an opening to fit a set size, say 100 mm, clay 10% shrinkage
Lynn T, Thank you for your encouragement and hopefully we can help!
If you want an opening of 100mm and you have 10% shrinkage, then you want to throw or make an opening of 110mm.
First convert your shrinkage % to a decimal: 10% = .1
Then multiply your shrinkage decimal * desired size; 100mm * .1 = 10mm
Then add your desired size to your projected shrinkage to get your thown-size: 100mm + 10mm = 110MM
Another example, if you want an opening of 100mm and you have 13% shrinkage:
First convert your shrinkage % to a decimal: 13% = .13
Then multiply your shrinkage decimal * desired size; 100mm * .13 = 13mm
Then add your desired size to your projected shrinkage to get your thown-size: 100mm + 13mm = 113MM
It helps is you use a calculator or spreadsheet.
I hope this helps, and please share the channel with your friends and fellow potters to help us grow our community~
Dennis