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 …
Pottery keeps you humble
Making pottery has a way of keeping you humble. This is a big bowl that was dry and ready to go into the bisque kiln. I went to move it over just a bit to …
Yet Another Blue…
You remember my last blue glaze that blistered at cone 6? Well I had a big batch of it mixed up and a couple of batches of older glazes that were low in the bucket …
Destroying the Plasticity of Clay
Why would you want to destroy the plasticity of a clay? To eliminate cracking when drying in either a glaze or a clay body. This was the result of trying to destroy the plasticity without …
Settling Clay that Doesn’t Want to Settle.
This is my lightest colored clay. After processing and sieving, it can stay in suspension for months. I generally add something to help it settle (because waiting months to work a clay just sucks). I …
You Can’t Guess with Wild Materials
I never would have guessed, from the amount of sand in this body, that it would craze. Never in my wildest dreams and yet, here we are. This is my latest dug clay and one …
A Local Material in Place of Bought Silica
This is a material I found on one of my clay hunts. Right out of the ground, it would stick together in a ball, but not roll a coil unless it was very wet. As …
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 …
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 …