{"id":3185,"date":"2017-04-13T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/pinching-balls.html"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:27:48","slug":"pinching-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/pinching-balls.html","title":{"rendered":"PINCHING BALLS…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is one of my favorite ways to make cups. <\/p>\n

Often, during a cycle of making new pots I’ll end up stuck. New design ideas don’t pan out, or I dont have the techinical skill to make what I want. <\/p>\n

Rather than sit suspended in frustration, I’ve found it is useful do something familiar for a day or two. This usually clears my mind for fresh ideas, because I don’t need to concentrate so hard on familiar processes. Even better, I have something to show for a days work. <\/p>\n

Pinching balls into cups and bowls was the first thing I learned from my mentor, and these things are still some of my best sellers.  The process is simple and efficient, and can be easy or difficult depending on the clay. <\/p>\n

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…is one of my favorite ways to make cups.  Often, during a cycle of making new pots I’ll end up stuck. New design ideas don’t pan out, or I dont have the techinical skill to make what I want.  Rather than sit suspended in frustration, I’ve found it is useful do something familiar for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pottery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-Pn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}