Shape and refine wheel-thrown pottery with Kemper Potter's Ribs. Made from smooth-finished hardwood, these traditional ceramic tools provide the basic profiles potters need for working and controlling wet clay on the wheel.
Use a Kemper wood rib for opening, shaping, curving, smoothing, and trimming clay as you develop and refine your forms. Different rib profiles provide different curves and working edges, allowing potters to select the shape best suited to the vessel and technique.
Features
- Traditional wooden pottery rib
- Made from hardwood
- Smooth-finished surface
- Designed for wet clay
- Useful for opening clay
- Shapes wheel-thrown forms
- Creates and refines curves
- Smooths clay surfaces
- Useful for trimming
- Designed for use on the potter's wheel
- Multiple rib profiles may be available
Specifications
- Brand: Kemper
- Product Type: Potter's Rib
- Material: Hardwood
- Finish: Smooth
- Application: Wet Clay / Wheel Throwing
- Available Model: RB2
- RB2 Length: Approximately 4.25"
Ideal For
- Pottery
- Ceramics
- Wheel throwing
- Opening clay
- Shaping pottery
- Curving vessel walls
- Smoothing wet clay
- Trimming
- Refining wheel-thrown forms
- Ceramic studio work
Shape & Refine Wet Clay
A pottery rib provides a firm working surface that can be held against wet clay as the wheel turns. This allows the potter to shape curves, smooth surfaces, refine walls, and control the developing form with greater consistency than fingers alone.
Traditional Hardwood Pottery Tool
Wood ribs are simple, versatile studio tools. Kemper uses smooth-finished hardwood to provide a comfortable surface for working directly against wet clay, while the different rib profiles give potters useful edges and curves for shaping a variety of forms.
