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Cone pack

Perfectly good cone holders, also called cone packs, are available from pottery suppliers.  This is the one made by Orton, costing about £2.

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Single use cone holders can also be made from suitable clay, such as those made by Don Hall, as shown on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbeD0cmuwqI and Florian Gadsby, as shown on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j33kFO7VVn4.

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However, I can't resist a challenge, so I decided to have a go at making some reusable cone packs myself.  This is a summary of the process I followed to do that.

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Simply copying the Orton design would be a breach of copyright, so the first step was to design my own cone pack.

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[Design]

My design parameters were to be able to produce cone packs which are:

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  • able to hold 3 x Orton Standard sized cones at the correct angle and orientation;

  • reusable (save where the cone fuses onto the cone pack);

  • easy to make;

  • sufficiently strong to resist breaking in the 'greenware' stage;

  • able to retain their structural integrity at up to Cone 6 temperatures;

  • significantly cheapedr than commerically available cone packs.   

[Clay versions]

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