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200 Cylinder Challenge (1drv.ms)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by peregrin5@piefed.social to c/pottery@lemmy.world

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In an attempt to improve my throwing practice I’m going to take a 200 cylinder challenge. I figure why not share my pain with the community in case someone is masochistic like me. Linked are the details to the challenge and a progress tracker one can use. Enjoy!

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know the first thing about pottery, so please forgive me if I'm saying something stupid.

When I want to get good at something, forcing myself to do exercises or train myself with no other purpose than the training itself never works for me. Instead, I try to find some interesting or worthwhile project that requires me to acquire the skills I need to complete it.

In your case, instead of a challenge to make 200 cylinders - that you yourself reckon is masochistic - why not make 200 pots for some community that could use them? Something like that, with a purpose. I bet it would be more rewarding and you'd get the practice with a sense of purpose to boot.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 day ago

In your case, instead of a challenge to make 200 cylinders - that you yourself reckon is masochistic - why not make 200 pots for some community that could use them? Something like that, with a purpose. I bet it would be more rewarding and you'd get the practice with a sense of purpose to boot.

There are many more steps from throwing a cylinder to creating a piece that can be used. And these steps have separate skills, need access to specialized equipment, is expensive, etc

One of the reasons to do this over and over again is to cut the cylinder to see the cross section. This will let you see what is off on your technique, and see how you are progressing.

The clay can also be recycled, it's only wasting a small amount of material that doesn't make it back into the reclaim pile.

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