Well some progress…and some disappointment…
Yesterday, I completed a cone 6 firing with mixed results. The clay from the big tub, which tested at 1.5% absorption but looked shiny, slumped badly. I had been afraid of that. I conducted a …
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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 …
Digging Clay
In my last post (the clay with 0.3% absorption at cone 9 oxidation), I mentioned it comes from a low spot on top of a hill. Well, here it is.
100% Local Clay Body
This clay comes from an odd low spot, on top of a hill on our land. Right out of the ground, it’s very silty and not plastic enough to throw, fires to above cone 8. …
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. …
It’s getting there…
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 …
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 …
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 …