Sputty

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Ha ha.  That was the first try out.  It's now warped with 200+ ready for a big trial.
You're welcome to come and help.  The scones and clotted cream are on the shopping list for the weekend.

No so much "what's on my workbench", more like "what's in my studio, in the way of my workbench".
http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/gallery/image/10062-img_2199jpg/

I'm not ready to insert my 2-cents worth (or Lee's editorial rant of the day, depending on my mood and how much No Surrender REV coffee I've had) on this topic, but here is another interesting article. https://www.disegnodaily.com/article/gendered-objects
At the moment, I am working on marketing lingo and trying to not go down the rabbit holes of social psychology, anthropology, art-speak, gender-related assumptions and other pitfalls while trying to wordsmith text to "appeal" to men or women with particular pieces in my (soon, soon, someday soon) online Shop. Stereotypical or not, I perceive these two pieces to come across as more masculine and more feminine, respectively. Of course, the best question is, if the top dish looks like it belongs on a guy's dresser and the bottom one on  a lady's vanity, then "why" ? What say you? 
 

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Thanks Sputty. Dante is an interesting character. He was banished from Florence and ended up in Ravenna where he is buried. There is an empty tomb  in santa Croce in Florence , not far from his home, now a museum. Florence wants him back. They have been feuding for a long time.
Marcia

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Sputty,
Holds the chill longer?
The drinks seem colder and the second drink is definitely colder - less ice. 

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lol.. did it auto play that? hahah 
That is part of my focus on my son to get him into creation instead of consumption. I spend a lot of time with him helping him discover things that he might be interested in. It takes a lot of effort, but I would rather spend time on him making things like this or art, then watching youtube videos. of course the kicker is he wanted to upload it to youtube to share with his friends. lol. 

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That tile in the first photo is awesome!  What "color" is that?

I made some confirmationish discoveries with my currie grid test in results to SiC. I have said it before but I sort confirmed it today. 
I have said in the past that glazes that have more flux seem to do better with the bubbling issue in regards to SiC. I ran some grid test this weekend and I did the vertical results yesterday and pulled them out today. I have nice smooth surfaces that are definitely different than their non-chemically reduced pairings. 
What I have found so far, again limited testing with only a few glaze combinations(I am going to try a copper reduced currie test soon to confirm this more), is that as the silica and alumina ratio increases in relationship to the fluxes decreasing your glazes start to bubble. It also appears(again not confirming yet), that as the ratio starts to enter into the .25(alumina) & 2.50(silica) the bubbling seems to be relentless. Some of the grids don't look bubbled, but if you hold them at an angle you can see it just didn't break through the surface. The only results with surfaces perfectly flat were ones where the alumina and silica ratios were below .25 and 2.50. 
This has a few important meanings. Depending on which limit formulas you observe your working with glazes bordering on the lower limits. This might bother some people more than others. I will always still test durability as such for any glaze. The limits to me are more like guidelines than hard rules. I don't mind skirting on the lower end of them, particularly if it can lead to entirely new discoveries with glazes in oxidation.
I am curious if anyone else has ran these types of test on SiC. I am really interested in it, but I have to balance the testing and production of work so I can't dive directly into it, but I am going to try to continuously run some grid test each week with SiC.  
And just to show the differences in some of my tiles. Click the pictures for better view. 
This was the best tile I removed:

The same tile compared to its non SiC brother. Left(SiC) Right(normal). The left tile has more a satin surface chemically produced. The glaze is exactly the same and was fired side by side in the kiln. The right tile is drastically more glossy. Which is interesting I don't really understand the relationship with how SiC can reduce the surface to a semimatte. Although I have to say i enjoy the semimatte surface much more. The tile on the right is classic iron red stuff, but the one on the left is very different. 

The most drastic comparison of two tiles with again left being SiC, right not having SiC:

Another set of tiles with drastic color and surface difference:

In general it seems that with iron oxide the SiC has a more semimatte surface and more visual interest and a variety of differences in color with very small changes in %'s of flux, alumina and silica.
Just thought I would post this here as we had some SiC discussions in the past. Thought some of you might find this interesting. The copper results will be much more visually evident. I am going to run the same glaze I did before through currie with incremental increase of SiC by .25% each time. Starting at .25 and going to 1. Just to see how long it will go before the ratios that I listed above no longer hold true. This is all new to me. So I could be way off.
EDIT: Also for those of you who are interested in how the milk frother worked out for mixing the cups. Check it out: (pwnage)
 
 

Which is worse:
 
Four days on the beach in the sunshine
or
Four days at Potter's camp in the rain