Biglou13 Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Made about 300# of galloway/cushing cone 6 porcelain, slightly modified (I'll post results/recipe when I fire). Thing is I forgot 50 # whole bag of nephsy. I'm planning on dusting it in as I repug , mix , repug mix, repug mix and repug.... Is there fault in my thinking.??? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 As admirable it is for mixing your own clay, this reminds me why I buy clay pre-mixed and boxed. Somehow, I think it is going to be difficult to get an even distribution of the neph sye by adding it dry and then repugging, and repugging, and repugging. I hope I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted December 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I hope your wrong also. This clay is already cursed.... I've already had issues with this clay when slurry mixing. (Issue solved I hope).. 300# is a lot to mess up. If all goes well 350 tomorrow . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 .... And worse, if this clay ends up being fabulous you won't be able to repeat it! : > ) Good luck with it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted December 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Yep I've already conceded. I've also realized not to experiment with large batches...... In my book failure is progress. The base recipe is pretty good, and getting closer to fabulous You can't have greatness without prior failures.... Like your sig line. Try fail learn repeat.... I'm hoping this series of failures reflect in my good pottery karma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I do not know what you can mix at a time but you could make smaller batches-say 50#s of your 300#s and wiegh in the right amount of Nepsy. I gave up mixing clay when I was in my 30's as it's so much work compared to pre made clay for the $. Now that I have good sized peter pugger I copuld see makeing some small custom batches only if I felt the need which I do not-now I'm just reclaiming wet clay ,making my own ratio of mixed commercial bodies and changing the firmness when needed. I love this Vacuum mixer. Back when I made clay for students in school I learned to always work from a check list-same is true for glaze making-that way its harder to screw it up. Not impossible just harder Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Made about 300# of galloway/cushing cone 6 porcelain, slightly modified (I'll post results/recipe when I fire). Thing is I forgot 50 # whole bag of nephsy. I'm planning on dusting it in as I repug , mix , repug mix, repug mix and repug.... Is there fault in my thinking.??? Thanks in advance. Sounds like the way to go. Somewhere there is a vid of mixing light and dark clay by cut-slam method. If you start with one layer of each and then cut-slammed 30 times you had 1,073,741,824 layers. Couldn't see the coloured layers anymore, looked all one colour. Not sure how to convert cut-slam to pug-remix but I'm sure it will work. Is the current mix a different colour to the neph sy? That might help, but if they're the same colour........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted December 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Plan of day 1.Weigh six pounds of clay, (quick) wedge in 1 pound nep Sy. Repeat this 30x 2.Pug ( feed the walker) 3.Quarter pugs 4. Random selections from step 3, Pug (feed the walker) 5. Repeat step 3 6. Repeat step 4 7. Repeat step 3 8. Repeat step 4 Use check off list from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I agree with Chilly. Slice, flour with the NS and slam. Cut and slam 30 times. This is a very thorough mixing method. When I mix my own clay, I mix the dry batch in a large container and add it to that same recycled recipe. I mix the dry mix wearing a respirator and am usually up to my armpits in clay dust. This helps not to make mistakes. Just check off as the dry ingredients are added. Hindsight is cheap. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted December 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Ended up dusting on 1 pound per 6 of clay. Pugged. Couldn't wedge it was like a sandy mess, I tried slamming a slab sprinkled, rolled then tried to wedge... No love... Then though the walker In 1 pound balls for a total of 3x through walker pug mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 should be well mixed. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Overall, sounds like an awful journey....hope the destination is worth the wear and tear of the travel!! Be sure to upload pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted December 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Picture but the true test is if it fires ok. I pugged it slow with walker I'll post test when fired I pulled some today no aging..... It was quite good and with almost no water Nothing ventured nothing gained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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