When I first started taking ceramic courses many years ago at the University Wisconsin LaCrosse, your choices of wheels that you could use were a Lockerbie Kick Wheel, Randal Electric Wheel or a Couple of Brent Type C Electric Wheels.  Well everybody tended to gravitate to the electric wheels, so I went ahead and learned on the Lockerbie. With practice you could give that heavy cement flywheel  some kicks get that baby up to speed and center your clay and as the wheeled naturally slowed down you could still do one or two pulls.  Then one or two kicks and finish pulling up your walls.  

Later I went to graduate school for my MFA at the University of North Texas.  At that time the graduates were in an old dormitory and each grad had an old dorm room for their studio. The Kiln Gods were shining down on me as a person who was leaving the program was selling her Lockerbie Kick Wheel so I purchased it for one hundred dollars. 

That Lockerbie Wheel was still going strong,  but my legs not so much and they were in need of a break.  So I gave gave the Lockerbie to a middle school teacher, where I’m are it’s going strong.

I purchased a Skutt/Thomas Stuart Wheel Steven Hill Model   from The Ceramic Shop, It’s love at first throw.  It’s amazing and once I get the hang of,  that the wheel doesn’t naturally slow down,  I look forward to another thirty six years of throwing

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