How to Make Custom Hardwood Throwing Ribs for Your Pottery
Making your own customized ribs is not only a way to help facilitate
your personal aesthetic touches, but, as Robert Balaban puts it, it
“permits creativity to extend from the clay to the tools.” In today’s
post, Robert shares his system for creating custom hardwood throwing
ribs.
How to Make and Use Bamboo Tools
Most potters are drawn to their craft because of the inherent simplicity of taking a piece of nondescript, unformed clay and making from it any one of infinite possibilities of shape and function. There’s something pleasing in that those possibilities never go away, never lessen in spite of the passing of the years, or the intricacies of glaze recipes, firing schedules, kiln repairs and tax forms. Simply put, it’s good to work with basic things with basic talent to make basic things.
