What type/color of clay(s) do you use?

[DirtRoads]

Just curious what clays and how many different clays people use.

 

I only use one type, #60 Laguna Brown with grog for pottery. This is the only clay I know.

 

Occasionally I use a Black clay (Stone Mountain) for some jewelry.

[Mark C.]

For production pottery-daves porcelain-white body

for flat pressed items-1/2 and 1/2 Thats have Daves porc and half WSO-white body

for large pots B-mix-white stoneware

for huge fish WSO-white body/ or big white

 

for salt pots-wood and sagger-stone ware

quayle sandstone buff-stoneware

rods bod-and just about any stoneware body laguna makes

I think I have about 6 others as well for salting

Mark

[timbo_heff]

I like to use a bunch of different Sheffield Pottery bodies:

Sheffield T1 and T3 and Wood Light stonewares for cone 10 ... sometime the screened versions, sometimes unscreened for a bit more iron play.

95400 grogged and no grog depending on size of piece for a white stoneware, good for my cone 6 electric glazed ware and also for 10 in wood and/or soda.

Ben's Mix for maximum flash helmer porcelain for wood.

and the Elaines cone 10 porcelain (wonderful thrower) for cone 10 gas reduction

[Marcia Selsor]

I use terra cotta, raku, raku paper clay, Frost as Armadillo Porcelain, Coleman Porcelain for saggar firings.

Marcia

[Denice]

I use terra cotta, several different Laguna C6 clays and I special order in different clays for projects that I am working on. I used to make my own clay but now I just get it premade and reclaim it. Denice

[bciskepottery]

The ones I use most often: Highwater Little Loafers (^6), Standard 266 Dark Brown (^6), Highwater Hestia (^10) and Standard 104 with and without grog (^05). On occasion dabble in others -- Highwater Buncombe White (^6) and Loafers Glory and Phoenix (^10), Standard 380 (groggy red clay for handbuilding and firing at ^10), Standard 112 Speckled Brown (^6). I inherited the Hestia from another potter who was moving. If you can find it, Campbell's Red Knob is an awesome body for ^10.