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MikeFaul

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About MikeFaul

  • Birthday 09/19/1959

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    http://www.pottersfire.com (Coming Soon)

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  • Location
    Herndon, Virginia
  • Interests
    Many... Too Many... Too Little time...

    Functional & Sculptural Ceramics
    Hand Building, Throwing, and Designing

    Surface Design

    Firing to Cone 6 Ceramics

    Multiple glazes on a single form applied with an HVLP spray gun

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  1. Shipping about 200 cups to Korea... Who woulda thunk it!?!

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    2. Mark C.

      Mark C.

      Makes you feel warm inside like when my spoon rests went to China

    3. Denice

      Denice

      I hope you made a good profit.

    4. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      All things are possible to them that believe.

  2. Expecting orders for more than 400 mugs in the next 5 days... Too much fun!

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    2. bciskepottery
    3. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      Mike:

      I will be in my recliner napping: wake me when you are done.

    4. Joseph Fireborn

      Joseph Fireborn

      a days work for you aye?

  3. Still looking for a production potter, had my latest no show for work today... Wondering why so many people love clay, but don't seem to like working with it professionally?

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    2. GiselleNo5

      GiselleNo5

      With that work ethic? I bet they're still working at Round Table.

    3. MikeFaul

      MikeFaul

      What Mark says is so true, we've started working with local schools. I met with the head of the ceramics program at a local university yesterday. We're forming an intern partnership. It will take years to bear good fruit, but I'm thinking its the only long term solution.

    4. GiselleNo5

      GiselleNo5

      Whenever people ask ne for advice on getting started, I say, take a couple classes and then apprentice for a local potter. So valuable and benefits everyone.

  4. MikeFaul

    Studio

  5. I have to re-throw a series of spoon rests for a housing development this morning. I threw them in white stoneware, turned my head to look at this mug on the shelf. It was the mug the customer pointed at for glaze selection. How did I get that irony green rim? Duh! Hazelnut brown clay... 24 hazelnut brown spoon rests coming up!

    1. bciskepottery

      bciskepottery

      And now you have back stock. You happy with Hazelnut vs 266?

    2. MikeFaul

      MikeFaul

      I like them both... The hazelnut is 211, a bit darker than 112 and no specs. 266 is almost black, very reactive. We us 266 for flower pots. The 211 we're doing a line of "Farm House" dinnerware. With a Tin Ox glaze. These were sort of freaks. This guy walked in and saw this mug that was left out and loved it because the colors matched their corporate colors perfectly. So, Elizabeth sold the glaze-which is exactly what she was suppose to do. No biggie, I have the almost all done no...

  6. Using our Go Pro to make throwing videos for our new You Tube channel...

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    2. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      be sure to post them, I am just now learning that craft. Need all the help I can get.

    3. MikeFaul

      MikeFaul

      I did buy a head mount and a clamp on mount. I filmed with the cameron on my forehead and clamped onto the basin of my wheel. I plan to splice the two together into one video.

    4. Roberta12

      Roberta12

      I still don't know how to post pictures from my phone to this forum, much less a video! I am impressed!!

       

  7. Finished digging the studio out from the snow yesterday, resuming clay operations today!

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    2. GEP

      GEP

      I'm still in pain from shovelng on Sunday. No time to recover, still need to make pots. Thank goodness for advil.

    3. Mark C.

      Mark C.

      I do not like snow unless I'm drinking coffee next to fireplace at a lodge inside

    4. Amy Eberhardt

      Amy Eberhardt

      I LOVE snow! Wish we had been the ones to get what you got, Mike. I'd gladly take that over the MUD we now have. I miss our clean white woodland snowfall. :(

  8. Unloading our last glaze firing before Christmas this morning...

  9. Merry Christmas Potters!

  10. Trying to resolve glaze faults, throwing tea cups... And, thinking about how I might visit Mea's open studio sale

  11. Finished our first show, made our sales goal... Happy Happy Day!

  12. Photo shoot on Monday... Need to get this glaze firing started before I leave...

  13. Just fired a full bisque, switching to cone 05 from 06 and adding a 15 minute hold... The latest effort to eliminate blistering.

  14. MikeFaul

    Romantique

    Wheel thrown pots glazed with the Romantique scheme, which involves 5 glazes applied with an HVLP spray gun, layered and overlapped in various sequences to imitate the look and feel of reduction fired work. The pots were were fired using a modified cone 6 schedule in an electric kiln
  15. Pondering what I should do, if anything about lighting the signage on the studio... Solar spot lights? LED? Wired low voltage? So, many options...

    1. trina

      trina

      show us pictures of the sign and frontage:) lights always add something special in my opinion.T

    2. MikeFaul

      MikeFaul

      Where can I post pictures?

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