glazenerd

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

Are these three pieces squared?

Naturally...

Mark- check your email.

Iron content is a typo I just now seen: should read 0.18%

How much $ per #? I am curious how cheap of stuff we are getting?

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Liking it!!

Liking it, and swiping it!

Permission to swipe granted!!

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>

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.

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.

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.

That's cool, congrats!

Congratulations!

The VFW is now involved: want to add a sculpted war memorial.

clay bodies is always something I have avoided.

Awesome stuff. Best of luck.

Joel: clay formulation is actually easier than glaze. Then again I had an old pro teaching me.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

you are handling that disappointment well!

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

Nice of them to tell you ;]

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.