Reminds me of high school ceramics were we would have to grab two pieces of plexiglass and place our clay in between and use a pin roller to flatten our clay. I

Reminds me of high school ceramics were we would have to grab two pieces of plexiglass and place our clay in between and use a pin roller to flatten our clay. If you wanted thinner sheets of clay you would continue the process with thinner pieces of plexiglass. What we didn't know was that there was a slab roller sitting next to us all along that the teacher hadn't mentioned during the start of the course. Through natural progression of working on "advanced" projects, we were then introduced to the slab roller as it cut time to focus on the new techniques we were learning. The teacher essentially did that for the remainder of the course and the ones that stayed behind to learn a bit more were able to use the shortcuts before the others because they were progressing on their off time.