Chilly
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Sounds like a good purchase.
And watch out for those "paints". At least one of those shown is "nonfired".
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On 5/10/2019 at 7:02 PM, Jennifer Harnetty said:
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- Pres and Marcia Selsor
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On 4/25/2019 at 8:26 PM, oldlady said:
great idea, chilly! and how do you keep the paint in such good shape on the radiator?
The radiator is brand new. Most of the rest of the house they're 30 years old. And look it!
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8 hours ago, Pres said:
That got me to thinking about size in slabs also. . . especially when using a slab roller. I usually would roll out the largest slab I could, and cut pieces from that slab to build with.
So in you work, Does size matter? Why, How, When!
best,
Pres
When rolling slabs, the advice I read from Alfred Ceramics, is to cut from the centre of a larger slab, to eliminate the weird stretching that happens around the sides. http://www.readypedalgo.co.uk/Particles-%20Orientation%20and%20Density%20-%20Alfred's%20Clay%20Store.pdf, page 55
So, yes, size does matter.
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Not clay, but glass. Still goes into the kiln.
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5 hours ago, shawnhar said:
I plan to cut some plywood so my wife can use it for handbuilding, but i am out of space, my studio is in our bathroom.
Mine has 6mm mdf boards, and two different thickness "cutting mats". We made the whole thing so it would take A2 mats. They weren't bought to be different thickness, just came from different suppliers, but has turned out quite useful.
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My home-made slab roller was designed to fit under the bench in my greenhouse/studio. Now, tho' it sits permanently on the bench, and is used as bench space when I don't need to roll.
The benefit of not having to drag it out, find something to put it on, then struggle to put it away, has more than made up for the space it takes up, and as for the time and effort to make it - not having to use the rolling pin has made my shoulder much happier.
So for me, finding the space was a no-brainer.
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I have bags of clay that have lived in the greenhouse for several years, so they must have frozen at some time. Haven't noticed any difference.
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It's been happening forever. Forgive me if some of the following is not historically perfect, my memory/interest isn't always up to this, but:
The English spent years trying to emulate porcelain; they painted blue chinese?/japanese? scenes on their wares; they copied delftware; and that's just the pottery stuff. No doubt that every culture has been affected by every neighbouring one, or the one they invaded/were invaded by.
Ad infinitum.
Should we now be upset by this? Possibly, probably. Can we change history? Should we continue to steal everyone else's ideas? Probably not. Will we?
I agree with Liam, "if your intent is exploitation, bad. If your intent is to create beautiful things, how can it be wrong"
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On 11/7/2018 at 8:42 AM, liambesaw said:
gonna have to switch since all I've got is 100lbs each of bmix and porcelain and I need to use it up.
Don't use it just because you have it. If you don't like it, it is cheaper to throw/give it away than spend time making stuff with it.
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On my workbench are the fired items from wood-kiln firing last weekend:
The cylinders are tests, the flat cookies are for herb labels, the two-handed cups are for my mum. The two square boxes with pointed tops are copied from sweetie bags at a recent wedding.
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On 10/14/2018 at 5:36 PM, Magnolia Mud Research said:
Art is in the mind of the observer.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So is Art.
If you like it, can live with it, or make money from it, it is good (valuable) art. If you don't like it, and no-one else does, it has no value.
I do not call myself an artist. I can create, I can be inspired, I can adapt ideas.
TBH, I don't get most art. But I do know that sometimes I see something and think "I like that". Sometimes it is recognition of a skill, sometimes it just pulls your eyes, sometimes there is no reason
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Home-made slab roller. Saves so much physical effort rolling slabs.
Mitre cutter
Stamp - made from an off-cut of a wooden curtain pole, and thick copper wire bent into my initial, hot-melt glued together. Dipped in WD40 works perfectly.
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I started to say two things are in daily use, then I worked my way round the house, and the number has gone up in each room.
In the kitchen we use spoon rests, butter dishes, a tea-bag bowl and fish-pie dishes, the lounge has a kindling-holder pot and ornaments, the en-suite bathroom has a pot that holds combs, the bathroom has plant pots and decorative trays to hold them. I also have coasters in most rooms and the greenhouses, plus plant saucers everywhere. At the scout campsite, all the crew have a mug with their name on it.
I have a pair of two-handle cups (one to use and one to ..........) to be wood-fired tomorrow for my mum who is struggling with holding a cup with one hand. And as she drinks her tea while it is still scalding she can't hold normal cups with both hands.
So, a veritable haul of me-made pottery in-use, quite impressed.
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What's on my workbench?
Another trip down the rabbit hole. First tested these glazes in 2014 in an electric kiln. Gave up as they didn't mature at ^6, and no-one else fires that high and I can't produce enough "test tiles" to fill the kiln.
Off to a wood-firing next weekend, so decided to make some more tests and re-hydrate those glazes. I'll say hello to the mad-hatter and the rabbit from you all while I'm down there. Middle photo are some tubes for testing, bottom is "posh" catcher trays to stand the tubes in. Then we'll only have to wad the bottom of the trays, not all the tubes.
- Min and Callie Beller Diesel
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Suggestion:
Is it worth it?
Several threads recently have asked is it worth...........
Be good to see a discussion in it's own thread on the general pros and cons of fixing, restoring, recovering, making your own.
So many things to consider: time, cost, environment......
Skutt model 181 kiln?
in Equipment Use and Repair
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Unfortunately, in a world where we should re-use. re-cycle, it takes man-hours to get that stuff back into condition. It's worth doing if you're time-rich/cash-poor, but........