I’m cleaning my studio and found this thing I made in my first ceramic class. I remember being so embarrassed that it didn’t work so I put it away on a high shelf. My goal at the time was to make a kinetic piece entirely out of clay and have it go through a glaze fire completely assembled. 🙀😂 I used nichrome wire encased in clay for the rod that threads all the parts together. I think it may have been more successful at cone 6. It was fired at cone 10 reduction ‘cause that is what the studio fired. I may have to revisit this idea of a kinetic piece again. I’m actually pretty impressed that I tried to do something like this in my first class. I was completely ignorant of how clay works and perhaps I wouldn’t have tried something so ambitious. 😂 I never showed the instructor. I didn’t want her to think I was crazy. If you want to see it in action check out my Instagram post and listen to a delightful scraping sound.