cheese-cutter – Gillian McMillan

Using the cheese-cutter

Today I needed to make two more oval lunch plates so I thought I'd take photos to show how I use the new cheese-cutter. To make a clear story of the process I've assembled the photos into a Picasa album. If you click on this link you can watch a slide show. It might inspire you to throw some forms for making plates yourself. https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/MakingOvalSlabLunchPlates…

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February 12th, 2014

Cheese-cutter for clay, made by Stephen McMillan

Look at what my son Steve has made for me! A skookum cheese-cutter. When I make slab plates in bisqued forms I need a nice sharp wire to cut off the excess clay at a 45 degree angle. Walter Ostrom showed us how to make plates and platters in this way when he taught the 3-week Summer course at ECIAD back in 1993. I've been…

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February 5th, 2014

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.