Norfolk Growlers in HR Growlers

The One Keeper in a World Full of JugsBy Victoria Bourne
Photos by Adam Ewing


Richard Nickel was having neck trouble.
On a November evening in Norfolk, Nickel, B.C. Wilson and Brendan Tompkins huddled around a calculator in Nickel’s studio. Armed with a caliper, the group worked to solve a design problem that had become the latest hiccup in their plans to mass produce handmade ceramic growlers.
The trio wanted to reshape a large block of old ash wood into a new template for their molds, accounting for things such as glaze thickness and clay shrinkage.
They’d nailed down the growler’s 64-ounce volume, but the neck was still not quite right. “We’ve got something that works,” Wilson said. “It’s just not a perfect process.”

read more at:

http://hrgrowler.com/the-one-keeper-in-a-world-full-of-jugs/