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  1. Babs
    Thanks Min, I live on an Island, freight and fuel a bummer, I've fought in the past when huge chunks was in their fine throwing clay...filter blew out but to return about 10 yrs ago was over $200 freight each way. Sorry for the moans, have done some bags re@Pres just extra disappointing labour for an aging body. Was seriously thinking no more reclaiming, just spread over sandy paddocks.. Will send the photos to them . It may jolt them into action. It comes from a working pottery so their potters, garden pots and such ware, will have moaned and got it sorted I am sure. Not sure how important the selling of their clay is in their business finances. Any way, no miracle cure, will also try Nerd's stuff. Think the vinegar just eases the surface.
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    Thanks @Hulk. Annoying to have to do this with clay fresh out of the bag, but.
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    OM4 a ball clay? Got a few ball clays random ancient ones So there you are! Got ball clay F . So will play. Thanks @Hulk
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    The ladt tonne of clay I bought, red clay fires as high as c4-5 with a loss of the typical terracotta red, but I dont mind that. It Is very short, handle making a nightmare. I add a splosh of vinegar to my throwing water and handle making which helps a bit. Company says no other complaint ...hmmm, Any way let me know how you'd tackle this. I have an ancient Shimpo pugmill. I encorporatr the throwing slop. So unbag, pug with bentonite or what?ad vinegar there too
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    https://www.instagram.com/tv/COz6edTFy6Y/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Check out his other posts. Big pots.
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    Few end knuckles with red spots here. Not rubbing, Arthur here , not visiting, staying. Worse in cold weather, gloves help but not when thowing. Dont notice it when throwing, but afterwards!!!. Bit clumsier though... Bigger handles on tools, tapeclittle finger straight to next finger when knitting, or it converts to a claw...
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    The author, Janet de Boos, 1978 published info to this extent , referencing the great Ivan England's work in creating mid fire glazes and their increasing value to the pottery world . "Glazes for Australian Potters" ISBN 0 726922129 Some recipes range from C1 to C7 with additions or decreases to make work... mentions the need of working with fickle fluxes Zinc Oxide and Barium and the more difficult path required in formulating glaze recipes at midfire temperatures, the advantages are considerable however. Frits
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    Is there a signature? Will you post photos edge on or the back of the piece?
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    On a piece of paper?
  10. Babs
    This is Digital info, but on sale Aus. https://walkerceramics.com.au/products/materials/frits/ gives anslysis and subs/ replacements.
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    Then there arevthe guys who have a wooden frame work, collapsable , and totally covered with ropes. After the pot is built around the above the frame is collapsed, ropes unwound and there you go. French or Spanish I think. http://www.poterie-provencale.com/savoirfaire_gb.swf
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    What did your bank of cones tell you?
  13. Babs
    Folk try to get that look by applying a soda wash to unglazed clay. I think it is a fuming of the sodium as Min is saying. It could be that the bisque is porous and a thin "layer" of glaze is migrating up the interior of the wall of pot as the pot is dipped .....maybe.
  14. Babs
    Check out Jkhn Britts video on spotted purples using Ashley'sBest. Specific firing schedules required, and thickness to achieve the purple
  15. Babs
    So many tunnels in this rAbbit hole, and now we can use heatguns to firm up the sections or light a fire inside like @Pres
  16. Babs
    That glazing method would do it, aside from the difference often noticed between inside and outside of pots because of othrr reasons. Try dipping mug into glaze and holding the desired time and comparing that to your first result. Not enough glaze? Do the inside, wait o'night then do exterior..
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    Yes that is the one. I still wonder why the vessel isn't constructed upside down, but I guess it evolved and was designed by greater folk. Today with the tools to lift and flip vessels to aid assembly of big pots, different methods become possible. Wouldn't want to be the one who accidently kicked one of those supports out from under...
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    That is so frustrating indeed. Have you fellow potters working with a different body that also hand build? Maybe get a bag or two of clay from them to try? How does it perform for thrown pots?
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    How are you drying this multi layered slab? What is your firing schedule? Had a teacher who said many times, to non listening teenagers, " It is not the material but the operator", i.e. the process, design etc being applied so before troting down to the store, check your steps, or it could be Murphy.... Happening all over your kiln?
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    Why not constructed/thrown upside down????? Or literally from wheel , who was that guy , who threw "downwards" at a certain stage of the process
  21. Babs
    A pboto would be good. What cone have you fired glaze to? Just if glaze is immature it may clear a bit if fired higher, on a waster slab. Is this result way different to other work or test tiles using this glaze ?
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    Just was asking because I have used either /or with little noticable diference but I guess it depends on the glaze and the clay it is going on.
  23. Babs
    @PeterHThink it aids with that metallic look folk seem to like eating from a.t.m. If prepared to sell barium based dinnerware, could also contain chrome, eh?
  24. Babs
    Think many years ago in a heavy reduction firing , I had a barium containing satin matte glaze go black matte, colourant was copper. Oxidation , the ubiquitous bright turquoise.
  25. Babs
    No scientist, and just rwmember reading If folk who put pots i kiln straight off the wheel, sealed kiln and fired. Wonder what the firing schedule was, prob pre controllers. Will try to find that source. Off topic sorry Min.
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