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  • Birthday 02/17/1951

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    Clay, books, clay, music, clay, philosophy, clay, dogs, clay, my terrific daughters, clay, cultivating equilibrium and a good heart, clay, clay clay...

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  1. I use Hardiback on all my clay tabletops - for wedging, handbuilding, rolling coils, glazing, whatever. I love it. It cleans up really well though it doesn't look like it would - I've spilled jars of glaze and underglaze on it and it just needs a good scrub (but really, that was dumb and I lay some plastic first now.) I keep big spare pieces around for extremely different clays just in case - I've got one for porcelain and one for real dark clays. I just stack 'em - handy.
  2. Thank you! That's really helpful. Will try.
  3. Min - I've got some test pieces in bisque fire now and there are a few little cups in the lot, just quick-pinched test things, but it'll be easy to run that test on those with.a couple of liner candidates. I hope it works as I want to do brushwork on bare or partially glazed clay on the outside and thinking it needs glazing on the inside to hold water., though absorbency looks good for that I think. Gift for my daughter - won't see dishware-level stressful use in rl, just would be nice if it made it through firing. Thanks, any other input welcome. I don't even know if it's unusual to just glaze inside a biggish moon pot like this, new genre for me. Took forever, too attached.
  4. Hi all! Question: I want to glaze just the inside of a large vase I've coiled and leave the outside mostly raw, with just some delicate marks outside. I seem to have heard that that can cause cracks or other problems but have been unable to find anything definitive on it. What say you all? Is some sot of uneven shrinkage a real issue if I do that? Also - This one is Sheffield 4DB3 clay (red brown) and I've also gotten some Brown Bear, both ^6, with an eye to showing a lot of bare clay on organic, coiled forms. I've worked mostly with porcelain (thin) and understand it, so dark clay is a new ballgame. Like, i'm probably drying it 3x as slowly as I need to, lol. And making a lot of new test tiles to check out the on the new glaze variables. There's tons of info on beautiful BB's quirks online but nada about the 4DB3 beyond the shop blurb - has anyone in here played with it? Thank you!
  5. Bumping this old conversation - ran into it googling for some info on that Sheffield 42. How's it for coiling do you think? I only get my clay from Sheffield, usually Elaine's Porcelain, but having hit 15" of woobly porcelain coil on a fat pot this morning I'm thinking I want something sturdier with a different character and some color the for fairly thin, soft, larger organic coiled forms I want to try. Thinking you might have another idea if 42's not good for that - I have a gift cert there and would prefer ^6-10. Any thoughts? (I've long admired your beautiful work, always takes my breath away!)
  6. Well I hand build, but I've gotta make one of those things. Because I have to have one. I could live on baked apples. Very cool idea.
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