What The Fork?…

Day 2 of dad and the bug and it truly is cold now… 7 degrees, this is when my pipes freeze and burst and the way things have been going with my plumbing this year, that would be its piece de resistance (<-french) or more accurately my coup de grace (<-french) (don't have it in me to find out how to put accents in there). No laundry for a week or so. So I was talking to my good friend Vern and said I'd really like to have a nice 20" or 24" bat that I could use to flip and trim larger bowls or maybe a larger platter and was wondering if he had a bandsaw that I could go at it with. Vern makes signage freelance and he's quite a perfectionist when it comes to craftsmanship and he volunteered to just make me one. He brought it over yesterday and it's so nice, I'll be hesitant to use it. It's white plexiglas, the holes are perfect to within German tolerances, and he even sanded the edge down as slick as… what, mucous.

Hoping my new motor comes tomorrow although it’s about 35 degrees in my studio. Here’s one of Vern’s digital photo collages (click to enlarge)…

Tags: ceramics, clay, digital art, photo collage, porcelain, pottery