Go Through The Door

Booth shot at Logan, UT, Summerfest craft show, 1997

Ah, the ubiquitous and obligatory "booth shot". If you've done a craft show, art festival, street fair, you name it... they all want a "booth shot". In the twenty years I made pottery, I made quite a few different booth displays. Thankfully, I only have images from the last 15 years or so. The first few were nothing more than milk crates and wooden planks. 

After building my first "serious" booth in Ithaca, in 1994 (out of old WWII packing crate lumber and masonite) I graduated to using hollow-core doors for my both displays. Now that we are no longer selling pottery, our booth display was given to another local potter. Some of those hollow-core doors are still being used in our life as desktops, bookshelves, etc. 

It never occurred to me when I first started using hollow-core doors that they would end up being an almost ubiquitous building material. The best ones by far were the older ones with luan plywood inside them for the internal structure. The more modern ones all use a cardboard honeycomb for support. The cheaper the door, the less support on the interior support. 

Booth shot, Ithaca Festival, Ithaca, NY 2005

Booth shot in Vail, CO, 1998

Still sorting more stuff

Okay... I have collected a mountain of stuff for the pottery studio over the past 20 years.
I mean, we're talking TONS of stuff. The time has come to start saying goodbye to much of it. That said, most of it is now up for grabs. Seriously. My library is now up for sale. I have a great pdf explaining each and every title.... and prices too! Anything that I can't sell (cheap!) to a potter, I will put on ebay at the going rate (which is a lot more than I would ever consider asking of a fellow potter.) [Okay, we have had numerous folks emailing, asking me to send them the pdf for the books.... HERE it is!] (I will do my best to update this daily as books sell)...another caveat: this pdf is 7 pages in color, it isnt a small file, so please be patient while it loads.

I am also getting rid of a lot of display stuff from the studio. Props, plate stands, plate hangars, and miscellaneous stuff one acquires so as to best display one's work. Pictures are available. Suffice to say, if you saw the display stands in any of my earlier studio images... those props are now up for grabs. Make me an offer and I will pack up a box for you.

I am also selling off massive quantities of Mason stains. Obviously, having worked in bright colors, we have a LOT of Mason stains. In many cases, well over 10# of many of some stains. Make me an offer on the whole lot and I will be a happy guy. Otherwise, I start breaking this all down piecemeal. I will probably be grumpy about this in the end.

I have a wonderful digital balance from Ohaus (Scout) model available. $50. CHEAP. Paid over $100 for it and it has been a fantastic addition to my glaze bench.

For folks who weigh out their clay before throwing, I have two medium scales (weigh up to 25#) available. $15 each.

I am happy to ship in whatever manner folks want to pay for. If you happen to live locally, so much the better! Come and get it. I will be making this list more comprehensive in the weeks to come.

Full PDF of the booklist and yes, this is a BIG file. Drink some coffee while it loads.