terrim8

super glue the wound-works great 

take care of your hand. I had to get a 1/4" piece of glass removed surgically from the back of my finger when I was drilling a support on the wall and leaned back on the floor. that took a while to heal. Keep your cut clean.

nice wire. I am going to use 2" wide flashing on my new one. 

Speaking of Plainsman, have you used any of their clays in ^10 soda?

For salt & soda : P700, H570 & H550. I like them all but 570 mixed with 550 is my favourite & it has a few speckles - Callie recommended that mix. The P700 is nice and even translucent a bit in part,even covered with slip when you hold something up to the light! I guess so far I have only used their clay. 

Plainsman doesn't get involved in exploration, other than within a short radius around Medicine Hat.

Thanks Terri! 

ashamed to say that I called in one of my kids to help- I used word - which I'm used to and she'll convert it to pages that has a prettier template- Some days...............

That's what kids are for  I used to type up most of my mums stuff because it would take me 1/10th of the time.

Problem is the conversion from Word etc. to Pages etc.and vice-versa is not always a two-way street. It is hard to shift from one system to another when one way is virtually automatic from years of experience and the "new" one has been perversely set up to be "backwards" & everything is in weird places. I feel your pain! 

Not been in my studio since mid November. Had the flu most of December, and the 0-10 degree weather does not suit me these days. I can heat my studio, just did not feel like doing it this year.

I thought of that but I currently have a brick up (then brick down) style door and part of that  is scavenged soft brick. Looks like a few "denaros" would be required to build a door. 

The bricks can be coated on the insides. You can then spray the salt in thru the burners via a garden sprayer.

the ITC stuff??? Or is there another product? Do you have to be concerned about it falling off into the ware??? Do you use it?

Have fun!

Marcia

Keep those skis together!

wow- I was pretty shaky yesterday. Have to go every day now to get my ski-legs back.

Mold making all week with different kinds of machinery!

Jealous! Are you going to check out that store with the weird spray painted tumbleweeds again?

No- I didn't have time! The course was extremely concentrated time wise. i even showed up early as the key fob lets you in- like 6 am once! It might have been easier if I had some experience with it but I didn't and it moved fast. only 1 lathe too so I tried to get in early for that. And it was HOT!!!!!! I didn't even have time for carrot cake!

gotta google that!!

sounds like fun!

we've always used pattern resists but there's some ideas that translate other than fabric folding.

the foot is kind of small- about 6 inches diameter. It's handbuilt- not thrown.

Depends on the clay, wall thickness. The fact you are not sure, suggests maybe you should.

Let us know what you do and the outcome. I always wonder about those things.

I had a student /rancher that said Plainsman clay got their clay from her Montana ranch. I don't know what part of a clay body it is. I have used M340 when I taught in Billings.

interesting- they are close to the border so I guess they operate all around the area.

ya- me too. I have wet pulled handles. I thought about a week- more or less. I'm not "speedy gonzales". I wonder where that came from- speedy gonzales?

oh- just googled it- a cartoon character.

You're a young one terrim8. LOL or you just didn't watch cartoons on Saturday mornings.

I have a A82B Paragon kiln that I fire to ^6 without any problems. It has actually saved me when my big kiln went down.

Unless the electrician checked the ohms on the elements. And the condition. I don't think he could make that assessment.

believe it or not, it was a bit of kiln brick fragment stuck way deep in the sitter.  Its fixed now. 

I should start shopping for a used nice electric kiln with a controller. Maybe I can find one in the US and ship it back across the border????

mugs and lamps so fingers crossed. (i.e. mid fire grey clay and some porcelain)

it worked!

Great!

Sounds like a good day at the pottery mill.

phew! glad to hear you got good lab results : )

I will be planting roses this week and mining with each rose.

If they're running Dean Starks, or anything else related to core, you're probably not their priority right now. You'd likely get faster service in the summer.

We going to see these results?

yep! I hope to pick up some today- mind you its just test chips before I glaze the next load- then i'll post pictures.

wish I had a mini kiln for tests

ebay, Craig's List, garage sale, estate sell, etc. There's on out there waiting for you. Never give up looking.

get a copy of Ian Gregory's Kiln book. I forget the exact name of it, but it has all types of little test kilns. I want to do the soda kiln.

its Sunday. Anxiously awaiting pics.

tired from the drive but i put two up before i left. Have to rest so more pictures tomorrow.

found a couple more- going for a nap now.

nice. I want an artsier avatar like Mark. Will have to do some close ups of surfaces.

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post results when you unload.

stay warm. Nice town. Very cool ceramics center. we close on our house 10/31. are you still looking?

Yes but looks like we have to wait. Commitments here will take some time. You'll have to post pictures of the new digs, new kilns...

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