First High Fire Test of a Local Clay
This is the start of a journey, to fire hotter, in the hopes of not having to buy/ship as many ingredients. I’m also hoping to do less mixing and testing, thus, giving myself more time …
Category: Wild Clay
Wild Clay aka local or dug clay post related to finding, processing and testing
Cone 10 Reduction Test of the Moon Clay
Mark Issenburg of http://www.lookoutmountainpottery.com/ generously offered to test some Moon clay (Moon Community, Southeast Oklahoma) at cone 10 reduction. This is the results.
Porosity tests of 100% local clay
Tests of my red clay and Moon clay (Moon community, southeast Oklahoma) both of which were just rough processed through window screen. The sandstone revision 3 is the SS3 bar. It’s fine processed with some …
Practical Drying Tests
A couple of largish greenware (unfired) test pots from 100% wild clay. Both of these were dried inside with the AC, but uncovered to see how they would do. They didn’t crack. The red bowl …
Backyard Red Stoneware
This clay comes from the banks of our red clay ditch that started out as a cattle trail 50 or so years ago. It’s what I call my “non-sandy” deposit. It’s still sandy, just not …
Moon Clay (Moon Community)
I did not have to put this clay in the dewatering tub. It settled enough on its own that it didn’t need it. I only rough screened this clay (window screen). It dewaters extremely fast …
Playing with Plasticity (ie varying sand amounts)
You know how you’re trying to solve a problem and finally come to a solution and think wow, that’s so simple, I should have thought of that ages ago?? My clays are sandy. Recently I’ve …
More Testing on the Sandstone Clay
The Sandstone clay is a sandy Clay that I dig right next to my house. Previous tests have shown that I need 14-15% added Nepheline Syenite to flux it down to cone 6. That’s more …
Testing the Sandstone Clay
This is a clay that is right next to my house. Super easy to access and easy to process. I first located this clay last year and did some initial tests then got side tracked …
Power Sieving Clay
You know that spot between sleeping and awake where you sometimes have eureka moments? This was one of mine. I was dreaming about a rotary sieve and got this idea. This is a harbor freight …
