glazenerd

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.

nice

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

lol.

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

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.

you are handling that disappointment well!

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

Nice of them to tell you ;]

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.

Joel: those who think they know it all are the ones who have stopped learning.

I think pottery is an area where your vista is constantly expanding ... The more you learn, the less you know for sure. The narrower your focus, the wider your possibilities.

The more years in ceramics it seem the less I know

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Paul: what I like about your work the most: always outside of the box.

Bruce: I know it is a challenge: just having some fun with it. Stirring the pot with a little throw down.

I have had good results from offering a virtual foot rub.

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.

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!

Best of luck.

YOur worldly probs may all be solved! Good luck Glaze nerd.

Ooh, how interesting!

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...

Congrats, your hard work paying off mate.

Joseph: so far all I have to do is roll and cut. I do not touch them again until they are bone dry. No turning or weighting- cuts labor way down.

looks like you may be onto something!

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.

LOL.

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