Technical difficulties resolved… and now retroactively catching up!

Tonight in class we tackled another demo… The Menorah Challenge! So let me
just say, I’ve never made a Menorah before. I’ve never even USED a Menorah before!
But I’m always up for a challenge! And tonight was the night.

Each session, I “encourage” my students to choose what object they want to learn
how to make – in addition to all of the usual basics. Two sessions ago it was sake sets.
Last session was goblets. This session it turned out to be Menorahs! Uh oh… what?
A Menorah?… in a wheelthrowing class? Well, like I said, I’m always up for a challenge
and want to keep my students happy!

So, I decided to show my class how o make a hollow tube on the wheel. Which is always
a fun “trick” form to make. I then showed them how to turn it into a Menorah, and we
discussed some of the other options of what they could make out of it.

And just to show my “Gentileness”… I realized the next day that there was one too few
candle spaces on the second one! Oops… luckily, it was still leather-hard so I had a chance
to correct my mistake.