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 …
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 …
White Glaze Tests
I have had several requests for a white glaze. These are tests. I took Spearmint from “Mastering Cone 6” and reformulated it to use local materials (53% local). I have had great luck with Spearmint …
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 …
Cleaning Pottery Rags
People often ask about cleaning muddy pottery towels and clothes. Well, I’ve found something that works great! This is the Breathing Mobile Washer.
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 …