Though I have a large table adjacent to my wheel to
work on, I always seem to migrate to the wheel to do an handbuilding, altering,
assembly, etc. When I am handbuilding, I have a old piece of Formica that I
place over my splash guard to act as a work station and in the case of
attaching knobs, handles or lugs as well as carving, I put a banding wheel on
top of the wheel head and get to work. In this particular case, I needed to get
the pot closer to eye level so once the bands were carved on the spinning wheel
head I set about building a totem that gets me as close to the pot as possible
for both the right angle and attitude of carving but for the right lighting and
field of vision as well. Behind my wheel I have a clip on lamp with a 100watt
bulb that helps illuminate the workspace and I must admit, after making pots for
so long, I just feel comfortable and perhaps a bit more at home on the wheel as
I do anywhere else in the studio.
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