glazenerd

Pwning up the throwing huh?

My supplier was out of 75-104 utility porcelain . I bought some 76-106-hope it works as good?

I will be sending out a few trial samples in another two months or so. Currently running shrinkage and absorption tests. Shrinkage at bone dry green ware was only 3 percent.

Feel like I am right at the threshold of formulating an entirely new brand of clay. My wheels have been turning for sometime about this.

Neat man. Keep up the work!

If it is porcelain that throws like stoneware count me in.

Excellent.

I would be interested to read it.

Best of Luck!

Until the weather changes :-)

Climate controlled space: there is no weather.

thats even more impressive since CC usually dries clay faster because it removes humidity.

Joseph: now that I have a clay body that is easy to throw- very well TY. I mixed up some of your Sio2 clay this morning.

Joseph: by the way- the 6.18 COE does not hurt either- much easier to glaze fit.

I imagine so. Good to hear your new clay is rocking.

more or less expensive than Veegum?

$ 2.00 lb. with shipping-wholesale. Technical grade: air-floated/ magnet milled to lower the MGO>

I can buy V-gum T wholesale for $5.00 a lb.

Nice.

By early summer I should be making my first pieces. Have to make some molds, and a wheel chuck as well.

sounds pretty interesting!

zzzzzzzz! To eat his own! Happy for you , Nerd. ..just teasing.

ya- me too - I see you didn't take the bait in the plasticity article.

Marcia:

Terri: when I did not see cation exchange, EF-FF-EE alignment discussed: pretty much knew it was blather.

We hit 85 today. That's above normal.

Hahahaha that's what always happens to my plans. Today I shall throw! Clean the studio instead. Today I shall clean! Spend hours throwing. At this point when I decide what I want to do I should just laugh hysterically and go sleep under the studio table for a couple hours.

I fired a glaze firing Saturday it was 70 here. I'll be ready for another glaze firing by next weekend.

Babs; could you PM these links to me please. Keep getting error messages.

google david Snair crystalline glazes, I saw some of hiw work in an old Cermaic arts monthly mag, just a couple of beautiful pots.

Test results in the Slip Recipe thread I started.

I heard about bigger crystals in 17-you heard it here 1st

Is that a challenge?

Is 2017; crystal smack-down year?

Do it now. W. Clement Stone quote.

Min: sadly that is a true comment.

Sounds good. Hope your christmas is bright and merry.

I prefer the term fell in a hole. = )

Then I need to go ask Alice, I think she will know.

Sing this song while you make pots. "Give me love, give me clay, give me wheel to throw, Give me hope that my kiiiiln won't go coooooold," and repeat.

you are handling that disappointment well!

If I had control issues, guess I would of kicked the cat.

Nice of them to tell you ;]

Oh, Bill said, "if you are going to throw a lot, use soft clay". That was my primer. Now I'm loving it. Best wishes.

Yeah, I've been doing this for fifteen years, and I still run into issues. And many times, it isn't me, but the clay. I use a clay that is far too stiff. You'd think I'd learn, but yet...

Best of luck in your endeavor. You'll ge there.

Ty Mark- Benz.

Yes, you will get there! Gotta start somewhere. With me it was very small cylinders that I started with, I didn't make decent bowls till about six months ago.

Sure you will get there..Keep making mistakes,you'll learn more...i use to do more often..Practice Practice and Patience will count !!

awesome.

Hope you get some good results.

I am going to the Hawthorne mill later this week. Trying to arrange meetings with Gold Art and Red Art plants. Many products available that are not sold to us.

Nice!

The invasion has begun. Better put on the aluminum cones. LOL I hope you were able to get your kiln going again. Story weather is beautiful; if you don';t have to fire.

Can the controller be repaired? If these storms are persistent you may have to install a lightning rod ;-(

I turn off the main panel breaker, and individual breakers when I know they are coming through. This one got be my however...

I agree. I spent a little time on there yesterday!!! Outstanding work, friends.

I love checking the gallery. Check it almost every day.

glazenerd, thank you... I agree and think many inspirational mornings and wonderful cups of coffee start right here.

Marcia: results posted in Glaze Chemistry thread under "Coma Clay." You will enjoy them.

not sure what coma clay is but becarefull you do not fall into one

Mark: Coma is the name I gave my custom porcelain tile recipe. Coma as in - no memory.

Accident on the home rebuild? Hope your doing better.

Accident in 2001 coming back to haunt me. Impact tore my pancreas and spleen, among other things. This too will pass.

Ooh, how interesting!

elf? Is there a season on them? Don't tell Santa.

LOL, glazenerd!

Love that one Marcia!

Ty very much GEP

I was advised to also clear my cache which helped my prob.

THe prev. bookmarks don't work for sure.

I'm curious...how many of you have had a MAJOR Windows 10 update? Come to think of it, my prob started right after the update...