For studios and schools
A class set that matches, and the profile your studio already throws to.
A teaching studio loses tools the way a kitchen loses teaspoons. We make them in class sets, in a colour nobody else has, with your name on the handle, so the ones that walk out come back.
What businesses order
All of it is made on the same machines, in the same building, by the people who drew it. A run of twenty is the normal size here, not an exception.
- Class sets Twenty of the same rib, in one colour, numbered if you want them numbered. Cheaper per tool than buying twenty singles, and they are identifiable at a glance across a room full of wet hands. How a set is ordered
- Your own profile, copied Every studio has one rib that everybody fights over because it is the shape the work is thrown to. Send us that rib, or a tracing of it on paper, and the class gets twenty of it. Send a tracing
- Soft to hard, in one set The same profile in several stiffnesses, so a student learns which one the clay wants rather than fighting the only rib in the drawer. Ask about the range
- The studio name on the handle Cut into the tool rather than printed on it. It survives the bucket, the wheel tray and a term of undergraduates, which is more than a label does. Send your name
- Replacements, one at a time A tool that snaps in week three is a reprint, not a reorder with a minimum. Tell us which one and we send it. Message us
- Tool boards and studio storage Wall boards, wheel-side trays and drying racks fitted to the benches you already have, which is the measurement no supplier can take for you. Send a measurement
Send the tool, or a tracing of it
The fastest way to get the profile right is to post us the rib the studio already uses. If you would rather not part with it, lay it on paper, draw round it with a sharp pencil held upright, photograph the page flat from directly above, and say how long the tool is. We work from that.
How a run works
We draw it and print one, at our cost, and post it to you. Somebody throws with it for a week. Then they tell us the edge is a degree too steep, we change it, and we make the set. The first one is a real tool, not a sample.
Term dates decide everything
Tell us when the class starts, not when you would like the tools. A set that arrives in week two is a set the students have already worked around, so we would rather cut the range than miss the date.
Colour, and why it matters here
A class set in a colour no other studio has is a class set that comes back. It costs nothing to choose, and it is the single cheapest thing a teaching studio can do about tools going missing.
Quantities
Twenty tools and two hundred differ in machine hours rather than in setup. There is no mould, so next year's intake can have the same profile in a different colour for the price of printing it.