More working with the silty clay
This is the batch I dug a few days ago and processed half of it to see if I can recreate the accidental perfect batch. I posted a few days ago. I kept it a …
Tag: clay body
Light Clay Body Test #1
This body uses one of my lighter colored clays. It’s probably more than 50% sand right out of the ground, however, it’s very easy to process, settles out of a slurry wonderfully, and de-waters quickly. …
Letting go…
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 …
First Firing of the TDI Conversion Down Draft
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 …
Sandstone Clay Cone 10 Oxidation
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 …
Last Cone 5/6 Test
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 …
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 …
