oldlady
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nice ring, mine are a little sloppy but similar. i think you said what clay you use, neil, but i cannot remember. is it cone 6 or a high fire porcelain? it is beautifully white.
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hulk, may i suggest a simple replacement for the cutting wire?? i have always hated the ones with wooden toggle handles because they are too long and i have never gotten one out of its package without crimping it. years ago i got some leader wires from walmart's fishing gear section. i think at that time there were 6 of various sizes for about $1. they have ends that fit on a key ring. one without keys, of course. the round rings are sold lots of places, walmart wants too much for the ones in the automotive section. hardware stores are better value.
i can use the longer ones but find i really like the 9 inch size and the 12 inch one is perfect for slicing slabs from a new bag of clay. AND THEY DO NOT TANGLE UP!
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both big "tools" in my studio are actually work stations. the slab roller is mounted on a heavy solid cord wooden door on top of a table built for the purpose. i hang many tools off the front of it in a line. i have marked the location of those tools with a sharpie dot so i can reach down without looking and get the tool i want. i return it immediately to the same place so i am free to use the slab roller as an assembly table.
the wheel is surrounded by a table and has tools hanging from nails on left and right. these also are returned to their proper location after use so i can get that tool again without searching through a pile of discarded, dirty tools all over the table top.
the rest of my studio might have piles of assorted things all over but those work areas are kept very clean. those piles contain very important items i might use. (in other words, my hoard.)
two small boxes screwed to the slab roller are for the tiny crumbs that would otherwise stick to the bottom of the fabulously beautiful, extremely expensive things i make. (HAH!) those crumbs are otherwise a darn nuisance. i have an album that shows all this.
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rolling bakers' racks with drywall shelves. self explanatory. too bad there aren't very many old refrigerators with wire racks in them. i have about 18 and have not seen any more of them for years. they are wonderfully useful for carrying pots after hot waxing and glazing to the kiln. cannot use when the work is fired because the metal marks the foot. or foots?
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up in smoke, the ocarina maker who had to show everyone how it worked.
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liam, do not know what your goal is but if you want a recipe for a simple Luster glaze, try this. 20 g each of frit 3134, dolomite, spodumene, ball clay and silica. the one i have is written for green so add copper carb 6 and zircopax 10. really good looking green but it flattens out texture. makes lots of colors also.
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callie, i use the plastic grocery store bags with the handles cut off. put a pot into the bottom of the bag, fold the sides over the top and if necessary, cover that bag with one over the top. just found a double bagged bowl from last fall. it was perfect to trim. (student never came back before i left for the winter.)
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off topic but i WANT that sofa!
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if i am still around in 5 years, i will be 83. i have a small pension and social security. the control of neither is entirely in my hands so the future is very hard to see clearly. i would like to put a small apartment upstairs over my studio to turn into an Airbnb. i can hope to do that but need cash to build it. maybe i can get on wheel of fortune and luck out. that's the only way i see to get the $50, 000 to do it.
so, if i am still around, i hope i can still enjoy the sunshine every time i see it and the beauty of the natural world as well as making useful things in clay.
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shawnhar, did you do the colored ones in the lower photo? if so, how?
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looks good! and, just think, you get to clean up a splash pan that is easy to clean! woohoo!
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if all the tiles are round and 12 inches, what fits between them?????
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enjoy every minute!!
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hello, allen, and welcome to the forums. it almost looks as though your question may have been overlooked but it was not. the original series of posts discussed what to do with the alumina hydrate once you have some but your question seems to be centered on getting some in the first place. you do not say where in the world you are so we guess in the USA and so our replies are based on an assumption. sometimes that is wrong.
liam has told you where to get the alumina hydrate and since that is what you were looking for, his answer should be enough. but nobody has said where to get the wax. that is also at ceramic supply houses wherever you might be. it is a liquid in this case, not some solid wax that needs heating up to liquify.
if you need more information on your particular situation, just ask until you have everything you need.
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liam, may i suggest that you get a much finer grain sponge? that one leaves heavy trails of slip where you do not want them. cutting a tile grout sponge in half and then cutting the half into bread thick slices gives you a number of throwing sponges and one bigger clean-up one.
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thanks, min. sometimes reading the first answer is more confusing than the original question. my suggestion is that if you want to answer a question, read it at least twice so the intent of the person can be determined. none of us is perfect but if the reader looks at EVERYTHING, the time, the language, the vocabulary, the answer will probably be more appropriate. someone who asks a question at what would be your 3 in the morning might not live in your part of the world or speak your language.