Clay Body Test using Red Clay and Neph Sye
I haven’t been very good at keeping track of my clay tests recently. I need to blog about these as a way of keeping up with what tests I’ve run and what needs to be …
I haven’t been very good at keeping track of my clay tests recently. I need to blog about these as a way of keeping up with what tests I’ve run and what needs to be …
The reason I decided to switch to cone 10 reduction vs cone 6 oxidation was to limit the amount of materials I have to buy (and ship) and to reduce the amount of physical labor …
A customer asked me yesterday if it’s hard to let favorite pieces go. Yes, sometimes it is. But there are always pieces like this one. It’s a native clay body, and it was on the …
The day before yesterday, I did a test run of my cone 6 glazes at cone 10. The firing went a bit cool at 9.5 but close enough. However, I could not find my underglaze …
Pretty pleased with the results. This is 100% Moon Clay (dug in Moon, Oklahoma), except for the one pot that slumped. That clay was from beside my house. The Moon clay has 8.2% absorption at …
This test was done Feb 2022, and I never created a blog post. Almost cone 10 in oxidation. 100% local clay. This clay froze and was a bit stiffer than I’d like. Previous workability tests …
This is the Moon Clay (Moon, Oklahoma) fired to cone 10 oxidation and cone 10 reduction (the bar). Absorption (3 hr boil 21 hr soak) is 8.2%. It’s an interesting clay to work with. It’s …
EDIT: Fired porosity tested as 2.8%. That’s about perfect as I can fire a bit hotter, and it gives me a bit of wiggle room for reduction. Just out of the kiln this morning. Cone …
These maybe the last cone 5/6 tests that I do. I won’t say I’ll never return to cone 5/6 because who knows what the future holds. These were fired to cone 5. This is my …
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 …