June 2nd Firing
Many of these pieces turned out really nice. I still need to work on making myself wash off glaze and redo when it cracks while drying. I didn’t do this and now I have several …
Category: Wild Clay
Wild Clay aka local or dug clay post related to finding, processing and testing
Test Bowls
A couple of test bowls. Both of these had 6.5% added Neph Sye to flux the body down to cone 6. The one on the left is my newest dig location with some of the …
White Glaze Pieces
These came out of the kiln Thursday morning. These were fired to cone 6 oxidation using my wild clay reclaim (1.7% fired porosity at cone 5.5) and my white glaze that is 17% local materials.
Sugar Creek Clay
This clay has special meaning for my dad’s side of the family. My dad lives on the old home place where he and his brothers and sisters grew up. Sugar Creek, where this clay is …
This is what happiness looks like.
This will be about 150 lbs of moist clay after it dewaters a bit. I mixed this up today with my wild clay reclaim and 15% of a local low fire clay. I still need …
Wild/Local Clay Tests
I goofed with this load of bisque. I didn’t make sure my thermocouple was completely inserted (it wasn’t even all the way though the kiln wall). The load was badly overfired (for bisque). The test …
Limestone tests continued…
This is 100% local to me body. Still not quite sure if the limestone will work as a flux or just be a disaster. I rolled out all my test tiles yesterday morning for shrinkage/firing …
Limestone tests
When I got my analysis back for the SW AR marl (https://glazy.org/materials/96006) it got me thinking. If this material works why not limestone? The marl has less loi but only about 5%. Limestone would have …
Dewatering Processed Clay Slurry
This is how I remove excess water from processed dug/local clay slurries. Some clays will dewater quickly and some take more time but this does speed up the processes.
Processing Native Clay
This is how I process the local clays that I dig. Most of the clays around my house are sandy and I remove the sand and other stuff like leaves and roots. I should have …