oldlady
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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. -
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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lee, i tried a hand held extruder and found that i could not make the entire extrusion long enough for a handle. each pull creates a stop where you need to start squeezing again. who is it here who made one from an electric caulking gun. is it pres? that might be a way for you as well.
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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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What's On Your Kitchen Table?
oldlady replied to neilestrick's topic in Aesthetic Approaches and Philosophy
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. -
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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37 degrees F right now. i am in FLORIDA! i come down each winter and this year I WANT A REFUND!
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upper 20s tonight coldest night so far this year
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while you are at Highwater, could you please ask what is wrong in the supply chain preventing them from providing little loafers and other clays to their customers? it has been almost a year since i became aware of the shortage of clay and it has only gotten worse. will you let us know if you get an answer, please? thank you.
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if you are familiar with the cone 10 clay Loafer's Glory, you can see how they named a cone 6 white stoneware Little Loafer's. it is a highwater clay. sorry, old fingers do not like capital letters.
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AH: spent several hours researching this issue yesterday. Overseas freight has tripled: so products like NZ kaolin, Grolleg kaolin, mahavir potash, and stains have seen 30-50% price increases. A few smaller ball clay mines have closed: although the large ball clay and fire clay mines are fully functional. The biggest issue is the ceramic tile industry both here and overseas have greatly increased demands. Lastly, the PVC (pipe) industry has been hard hit: and some areas are using clay pipe for emergency repairs. Pottery only accounts for 2-3% of the clay market: which also means we are on the bottom of the supply chain.
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Apologies that I never got back to HighWater clays but they are an hour and a half drive from me so I don't get up there often. Which is why I suggested calling or emailing them. My last ceramic order I just did through the mail since gas is so expensive now. Stuff like that doesn't fit on my motorcycle very well.
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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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brings back good memories, that is what i started out with in 1972. it worked very well, good luck to you with it.
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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?
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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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this post was useless in the discussion so i removed it.
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if i could figure that out, i would make more of them.
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hulk, thank you for this post. i do not know if you meant it to be on the clay website but i have been looking for something to re-string my dog's bed. the stuff you are talking about is exactly what i want to buy. thanks again!
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karen, could you please correct your title on the strontium glaze question?
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What should it say?
Thanks
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two different ingredients are mentioned. the title says barium and the body of the post says lithium. which is it?
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I think the title is accurate. I am substituting Stontium for Barium, like the title. Lithium is not an issue here. Thank you for checking! I appreciate the time you take to do this.
Karen
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i have most of the years between 1973 or so to 1987 or so. please come and get them. i am in harpers ferry, wv.
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pat, you have not said whether you do wheel work or handbuilding. some clays are suitable for one but not the other. i use an east coast clay, Highwater Little Loafers which is a white clay but not as white as porcelain. it is good for both. it has a low coe, something i know nothing about. Min has been extremely helpful in suggesting recipes that work on it. it throws very well and i have been doing slab work for a number of years with it. depending on what you want to do, it might be just right.
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will be using glazes that i made many years ago and have not used, just tested. they will cover the empty bowls i need to make and i will be combining several of them by layering. not my usual kind of thing and i am not sure whether they will work together. there are several 5 gallon buckets with dry mixed ingredients, one is apparently a popular glaze called "Varigated blue" which i have tested as a base, nice white, almost matte. there are lots of others, Nutmeg, Randy's red, Sapphire, Licorice base which takes colors beautifully, and Luster Green. more are hiding behind the first row. anyone with suggestions of how to combine? any history working with them? i just want to do simple bowls this year, lots of other things in the way.
