High Bridge Pottery

Such a good feeling:)

May your orders increase and your glaze never run. Mail going out next week.

Sweet I am excited. I will have to make some spare time when it arrives.

I hope this makes the kiln work otherwise I am at another dead end. Dad thinks I am going to blow up his garage, not so happy xD

lol..

Adversity is the mother of learning. Stay with it. HVD

Yeah, and mangled USB drivers are also disrupting. Thought it was the attached hardware!

And depression ain't helping much either.

Already got the burner as an early Christmas present

I know lots of people who get new shoes for an old outfit, then use the new shoes as a reason for a new outfit...works for me

I love old shoes, they fit and feel so much better. I wish there was somebody who could buy me a kiln for Christmas but that takes out a lot of the journey. I am only half in it for the end results.

I tried pulled, slab, and coil handles. Now I make a tapered coil, flatten it slightly with a roller, and attach that.

Mugs do sell better. Even vegan mugs.

just unloaded 32 today. Clean and glaze tomorrow.

Awesome.

Post it!

Kiln is at 1130 right now. 02:45. Few more hours to go till they are baked.

Is there any other way to do it?

Patienly waiting... NOT... ;-)

I wanna seeeee!

Yeh me too, can't wait..

not sure how bad your bubbles are, but I sometimes squirt diluted alcohol which breaks the surface tension of the bubbles...at least the ones floating on top. I learning this from plaster mixing with Richard Notkin who learned it from professional mold makers. It does not have any effect on the glazes.

 

Thanks for the tip Marcia but this isn't to do with application issues. Will try it next time I am making plaster moulds My problem is with the LOI leaving bubbles in my fired glaze.

when i sub wollastonite for whiting/silica the glazes flux more when the formulas are balanced. i need to slightly undersupply the calcium part of the original formula.

That's what I was trying with the hold at 900c. Didn't seem to make much difference. Going to put a ball of glaze in my bisque and see if it has already started melting.

Can you get wollastonite where you live? Since whiting has approx 45% loi lots of gassing out that has caused problems with some of my glazes before i rejigged recipes. doesn't always work but sometimes it did the trick.

If I can't solve the problem I will have to buy some wollastonite. Just been trying to use what I have in the stores.

 

It was overcast here, we weren't able to see ANYTHING.

Oh no it was such a good experience. Made it seem like much more of a rock in the sky without it being so bright. A lot less red in real life than the close up photos seem to show.

Nice

Yea managed to convince my parents to let me use their garden but on the condition that I bought the burner instead of trying to make one.

The deeper I go the more questions I find ;] Really enjoying all the chemistry and melting of materials to see what happens.

Let me know when you turn lead into gold. hehe.

congrats on the brick. i am on the lookout as well around here for people getting rid of them.

Haven't won the bid yet. If it goes over 100 it's probably not worth the 200 mile round trip.

Ah. Well good luck!

Spend another £90 on a converter or £xx on a new motor. Or wait for a single phase one to come along.....

Me too, another health problem popped up and I have two groups of relatives coming to stay with us until Oct. 7. I guess I am just overwhelmed.

Sometimes I feel like quitting my day job but all advice seem to say that is the last thing you do Hope you can recover from your health issue ASAP Denice

Hope I recover to, I've got two more test for thyroid cancer before I know. Thank you for the kind thought.

You are becoming quite the mad scientist High Bridge!

It's amazing how easy the stuff works. Spent very little cash and I have a computer reading temperature from the thermocouple. Now the hard part is doing something useful with the data. If I knew how to do it you could make a 13A 240v kiln for like £200

I was thinking about that myself. I need a small test kiln, and it would be really neat to program it all and build it myself. Not sure if it would be worth the effort but it would be a cool project.

Hot is hot. My garage is only 97. Easy Peasy!

Oh man that is hot, I don't think it gets much over 80 in here. Three big windows I can open and extraction unit. Doesn't really help when you have to scrape tile adhesive off the wall.

I think Spam is considered an odd delicacy in Hawaii.

10.45 pm west coast time and its back-a korean spam attact

I wonder if tototop is like my Toto toilets?