How Do You Make Rope Tools For Pottery?
Making pottery is a relaxing and somewhat therapeutic hobby. You can acquire several types of small hand tools to make sculpting and removing clay for ceramics easier. Rope or wire cutting tools for pottery are perfect for cutting lumps of clay. They are also used for cutting and removing a finished pottery piece from the pottery wheel. Making your own nylon rope pottery cutter is an inexpensive, simple and quick task to complete. Measure and mark the wooden dowel into 3-inch lengths. You will need two dowel pieces per cutting tool for the handles. Cut the dowel handle pieces. Mark the center of the dowel piece at the end and use the drill to make a hole for feeding the nylon rope through. Repeat for the second handle. Measure the nylon rope to a length between 18 and 36 inches. Cut the rope. Thread one end of the nylon rope through the hole you drilled into the dowel handle. Repeat with the other end of the rope and the second handle. Tie the ends of the nylon rope securely. Use a lig
