oldlady
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lee, you have the brother to my blue glass bird.
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having lightning strike the power line did nothing good for my whole electrical menagerie. the wheel suffered a stroke, had to replace the pedal. the ceiling fans, the tv and i don't remember much else all were affected. that lightning strike was about 30 feet from the studio. that was back in the 1990s. since then normal maintenance replacing belts on the wheel and elements in the kilns. my daughter just re-did my L&L last summer, new elements, thermocouples and relays plus stainless screws to hold the control box on the kiln.
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neil nailed it, it might work and it might not. i have used pizza stones in my 04 bisque firings but when i tried a cone 6 in my tiny 12x12 test kiln it warped.
- Rae Reich and Pyewackette
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i saw a firing using this in england. the 2 men were dressed like astronauts and had lots of experience. be VERY careful if you decide to do this.
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after hearing all this, i am glad i got the bailey 400.
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right now, mapquest says i can get to highwater in clearwater, fl in 14 minutes and it's recommended route is 5.2 miles. maps do not show that most of that is through heavy garbage truck traffic to the landfill and all the many trucks servicing the industrial areas. i choose to drive 5.3 miles on normal highways.
at home in wv, it is about 65 miles to baltimore or 65 miles to alexandria va. i love going to baltimore and visit lots of places while i am there.
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hello and welcome to the forums. where are you looking? the pottery supply companies have all kinds of pottery related chemicals. try Clayworks in alexandria, baltimore and richmond. or one of the big ones online.
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how about a lightbulb doing the work? in an unheated space, i raised chickens inside a kiddie wading pool about 4 feet in diameter and used a single 100 watt bulb on a cord. i know 100 watts are not available anymore but the idea is the same. it did keep the temperature stable. i was lucky, the bulb lasted the entire time i needed it but i kept a spare right next to the tub. maybe a lower wattage bulb inside the tub would work.
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the venco pugmill was the one i bought when it became available in the US. i used it until the bailey small one came out and sold it to a friend when i bought the bailey. the only thing i can think that your instructor would not like is the diameter of the pug. the venco was a little bigger. i love my bailey, but i would not like any pugmill if i planned to use several colors of clay.
having read one of the instruction books you mentioned, there is still no diameter of the pug that i can find. the bailey does have a sliding metal bed for the pug to land on and i cut mine to fit into a 5 gallon bucket. anything bigger would be too unwieldy so i would absolutely never use that roller table. that looks like it would be used in a factory type operation. the pug diameter looks very large for a one potter operation. think about the weight of a pug that diameter and the length of that roller table. UGH!
how much do you plan to pug at a time? where do you plan to store the pugs until you use them? how often will you use up those pugs and recycle the clay? and how often do you expect to change colors?
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peter, you are remarkable! thank you again.
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wish you had asked this before i came down here with a box of hand tools and totally forgot my pastry roller. like a pony roller but more comfortable and a better grade of wood. two of them are hanging off the slab roller in wv, one with a note in sharpie "leave in Fl".
can't get down to just 5. will think some more.
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your newspaper reminded me of a feast our gang at the office earned. everyone ordered blue crabs except me, allergic to shellfish. i ordered a steak. the day was wonderful we were at the edge of Chesapeake bay at a picnic table. two of us had the ends in chairs and the table was covered with newspapers. the steak took forever and when the waitress set it down on the newspaper in front of me, we all realized there was no table under the newspaper.
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i have a three inch binder with recipes filed under colored tabs for the glaze recipes people have given me or i have asked for at studios. went through it last year and found that many of them are duplicates from various sources. they have the same recipe but a different name. some work and some do not. some are very dangerous for the potter to use. i have tried many and others have just been sitting there untested.
min has given me the base recipe that i use for lots of colors. all of the mason stains i own and the carbonates work in it beautifully. she gave me the recipe that fits my particular clay so i thank her very much every time i use it.
hulk....... vanGilder does not fire to cone 6. he got the recipes from Phil Berneburg who established Washington Street Studios about 6 miles from my house. the rutile green recipe works with lots of colors as well. the one called Oribe green does NOT pass the vinegar test.
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thanks, peter, floor mats make wonderful leaves, too. back them with duct tape to make a handle so you can press leaves into clay easily. i do have a hard time turning the mat so i do not cut two of them going the same way.
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extruded blanks can be tapered by rolling, takes only a few seconds. add interest by pressing into a mold shown above by Peter or use some rubber floor mat like The Pottery Boys show on their website. one roll with a pony roller produces the "ribs" in the handle. can"t link you but they show exactly how to do it. hardware stores sell the mat by the yard.
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I have access to a pottery supply store here in florida that is only a few miles away. totally different in west va where there is one in baltimore, 70 miles away. the difference is that i enjoy being in baltimore occasionally, and shop lots of other places while i am there. need very little except clay since i have very large containers of glaze ingredients that were bought in the last century for the most part.
this year i pugged the last clay i had and packed it up to bring down here. none of my clay is available to buy right now. still have to unload it from the car and get it into the studio, though.
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thank you, chilly and LT, can't take the test yet, chilly. the oddest thing happened. your link led me to a great answer but someone put an ad about prostate cancer with graphics all over that page. i just did not have time to wade through the setup. besides, i have 1000 things to do today before leaving for florida for the winter. it is 2 degrees above freezing today.
i will read the link when i get there and have a moment without a crisis.
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not an oxide but a carbonate, copper. would someone who is the chemical expert in your area please explain the difference between oxide and carbonate for those of us without your education?
- kristinanoel and Hulk
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plant materials are used in 90% of my work. and the glaze is green, normally. was really surprised by my adult daughter's reaction to seeing a butterdish with citronella leaves and the typical dragonfly. she was walking through the studio when she spotted it and actually stopped in her tracks in excitement. neither of my children are interested in making pottery, a disappointment to me but she was amazed by the depth of the green glaze. actually took several minutes for her to adjust to the normal sort of "so what" reaction. thank you, Min. i would help you glaze if you were a little closer.
i single fire to cone 6 in an electric kiln. sometimes a refire is necessary because i spray the glaze and sometimes miss a corner or a side. refiring to cone 6 with a slow glaze allows those pieces to become sales.
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View from the studio.
in Aesthetic Approaches and Philosophy
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lee, i make birds sometimes and there is one just outside my studio door in wv. it is in a planter with a rose bush and i smile every time i see it.