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Old 09-03-2009, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by tdoty View Post
If you form a bowl purely by stretching in the wheel, how many sympathetic tucks or ruffles are formed along the edge? That is one example of why I say stretching does NOT cause tucks to form.
If you had a circle of 12"dia and only wheeled inside a 6"dia, then tucks would form.

Most of the time, when a bowl is made by e-wheel use only, the operator would wheel to the edge, creating a even dispersment of stretch, little at the edge, gradually increasing to the center.

Stretching can cause tucks to form, depending on the method used.

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