Practice Time for Current Pottery Students

No practice hours this weekend 11/28-11/29/2009
Any pieces that missed glazing can be glazed during the last class.

Ceramic Bells, stringing them up, by Barbara Dunshee

This video is the FINAL installment of my ceramic bell making lesson. It shows you one way of stringing the bells together. Hope this helps!

NOTES:
-I used 20lb test fishing line for stringing the clapper to the stop. Other strings will do, but you don't want them too stiff.
-I used thin copper wire as a threader for getting the soft ribbon through the holes in bell and stop.
-If the holes are too small for your ribbon, you can use string between the stop and the ribbon and tie the ribbon to the top of the bell (of course it can get a little trickier if the holes are too small for the ribbon to pass through).

Practice Time for Current Pottery Students

NEXT Bisque FIRE -Thurs 11/19/09.
To my current students:
Sign up for your 2 hours via "Post A Comment". (You may need to register if you are not already registered.) In your comment, include: Name, day, which 2 hours.
You may also change your times using the same method.
8 people including studio monitor is max for all to get a wheel.

AVAILABLE TIMES:
Saturday, 11/21/09:
10am-Noon (Jan W. -STUDIO MONITOR)

Sunday 11/22/09:
none this weekend

How do the bells sound?

These are a few of the ceramic bells from my video lessons, in action! They're available for purchase at my Etsy shop.

The bells are done! Well, some of them

I'm now in the process of stringing the fired bells, photographing and listing.
I'll make a video on stringing once I get a better system going. I'm still trying to find a more efficient process to share. You don't want to watch me fumbling around.