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You do eat it, but only a little over three pieces...

Are these three pieces squared?

Naturally...

Great project...good for you! That will be a fine and useful addition to the literature for ceramics. 

you are well on your way to becoming the new go-to source for everything ceramic!

Somehow the address of my rabbit hole has leaked out.

Tom, don't you have an editor really close by, isn't your wife in the publishing business? 

Correct Min. All the more reason I found the unsolicited offers to help most generous. Some technical review will still be required. 

Gotcha. Yes, potters have to be some of the most kind and generous people I know!

what book by what chemist?

Fine Ceramics, Technology and Applications: F.H. Norton 1970

West, Lawrence, and Johnson worked on the "water hull" concept, sometimes referred to as the "solvated layer."  The basis of modern slip principles.

Horton introduced the "stretched membrane" theory of plasticity in 1948

LT: think you misread my post. The COE is one graph, and CEC/ alumina is a separate graph.

Ooo Kaaay.    

Still, such a correlation would be nice.  Measure CEC and get a COE as a bonus. 

Interesting thought, but sodium, potassium and calcium all exchange at different rates. I do think you could work a loose table off of spars. I have enough data tables, might run that over the winter. My next article is due out in August? I think. The one after that will make your lights go on. <teaser ad>

More power to you. 

I hope you had a great holiday.   Denice

TY Denice. We did our usual, had a local eatery cook up all the food and deliver it. That way, we get to sit around and visit without anyone having to actually work.

Glad your well. Flu is a nasty beast.

lol.... im gonna start doing this with currie grid tiles cause im about to go make like 15-20 more of them. gonna change their name to glaze cakes, or maybe waffles are more accurate. glaze waffle.

You eat those with relish ??

I relish the thought!

Please do. Given the time period, a brave undertaking on your part. No programmable controllers in 73. The only thing I remember from 73 is Pink Floyd playing in St.Louis.

I wish I could have heard pink floyd in st louis!

Ha! I saw them in 69 at Connie mac stadium in Phila. in a thunder /lightning storm. very cool.

Getting away from clay is needful as well. The potter's passion for clay is a consuming fire at times. Gets really intense when you get on the path of a new glaze, form, or technique.

Keep experimenting, watching with interest.

Thanks Tom, I've never put much effort into my glazes mostly going with what was available and trying to make it work, sometimes with success and sometimes not so much. I can do pretty much with the clay  as I wish I think, I'm a novice working with glaze chemistry and my experiments salvage jobs at best. Not that they don't work...the end result of the combination of glaze, and firings winds up being to complex to depend on. So the search for bright colors I like continues my last c6 celadon was disappointing , my own fault doing little bits here and there with ceramics I need to focus. 

I'm in the north Nevada desert now finding everything but gold, tacks, bird shot, nails, bullets...did I say bullets lots of bullets and shells, tiny tiny bits of rust up to big old pieces of tin...spent the better part of today finding and replacing one of my tires that turned into something resembling a birds nest, the Nevada desert hates tires you see their shredded remains everywhere out here.

Lots of Calcium chloride over and under sodium dichromate. I haven't fired the zinc chloride yet. Snowing again. Brought in the materials from the kiln shed to fabricate the chamber of mt raku kiln. Too much to do, so little time. 

Thanks. I like it too.

M

Nice. I am about to fire some clay myself. Fun Times!

Very funny (grog/John).  Tempting to run out and buy some Grogzilla and mix it into Southern Ice. 

Guess I have to wait another week, the delivery truck broke down yesterday.

Have had two get stuck in my garage ... takes some doing to get them out!

I had that happen also, we tried everything even ran down to the store and bought a feeder and put sugar water in it. They finally left when it was lighter outside than in the garage.

Like I said, need to test several 04 glaze recipes.

lol.

Joseph, got so involved in developing the clay, sorta forgot the glaze.

me, too.

They ended up putting in an artificial shoulder joint: she had shattered the bone that badly. The real problem is her continuing to live on her own at 85. She has fallen several times in the last few months, and has always given me " reasons" why. As her POA, I have real concerns about her being by herself.

This is such a difficult place to be. I'm so sorry, Tom. She is very fortunate to have a lovely son like you to watch over her. I always tell my son that right now it's my turn to protect and take care of him and one day when I'm older it will be his turn to protect and watch over me.

Ty Giselle, Joseph, Ron.

Oh dear! On a positive note she has family to help.

You will figure it out. The cream cheese comment busted me up. I can imagine trying to throw cream cheese. It would be awful.

Always thought porcelain was like throwing butter, but cream cheese works too!

eight isn't everything. But congrats on your height in this case. Well done. through sheer determination!

Marcie: I am not only testing my ability, but also testing the ability of the clay.

I love reference books. I own 1 fiction book and like 500 reference books. So I could sit through it. = ) But I am probably your direct target market.

me too!

I am going to include chapters on diagnosing clay problems. Which will also include a section on analyzing clay specs.trying to assemble an index on all available ball & kaolin clay- some mines do not have much data.