Joseph Fireborn

There is an interesting part to selling pots. It is very personal what somebody likes, I have sold many things that I thought looked friggin terrible but the customer loved it because of what I hated.

Great stuff Joseph. I like the rustic look of the glaze. The aged wood you used for the photo surface plays off that idea nicely.

Thanks. I had an old flower pot I just broke up and thought it would help show the look I was going for in my pots. At first I thought it was too distracting, but later I liked it. Sort of makes the pots feel like that's where they belong. I am not sure I am going to keep going down this path though. A lot of decisions to make this week about production. I want to become more efficient and I am not sure that I want to work with a dark stoneware because of the amount of kiln time it takes...

Glad you fixed it.

So handy .... I'm fortunate that my dad is able to do those kinds of things because I'm not handy in that way at all. So he comes over and builds me shelves, and when he builds his own shelves, I go over and organize them for him in exchange.

Joseph, what's your Etsy shop? I'm on there every day.

I will check out your etsy store tomorrow its late. I sieved 100 mesh 8 bucket s of glaze 3 times each by hand with a paint brush. Very tired.

Cool, I posted the email I got from Amazon in the Business and Marketing forum as Amazon Handmade, if anyone is interested. Best wishes for your success.

Neat email. can't read the links but seems like program is pretty good.

Good the results are on my blog. I am scaling down my testing to 15% per load, and making the other 85% of my kiln for sale. Or that's the plan anyways.

Get feeling better.

Great results Grype (or may I call you Joseph?).

Thanks Evelyne. Joseph is fine. I need to just change my name on here to my name. Grype was just something I came up with a long time ago. Stands for gryphon.

But your a tenacious newbie. And one with plenty of common sense. Your good man. Happy for you.

Appreciate the kind words mark.

Grype, sounds like a very beneficial experience. Those things can really influence your growth more than a technique.

Ooooh, that Akira Satake. i had to google, hehe. he has such intuitive work. I think. I have so much to learn.

Wow, what beautiful objects. I just googled Akira. Enjoy the workshop Grype!

TOMORROW!

Sounds as if you're taking a smart approach. Lots of folks have said that it's limitations that lead to good work, and they are right. Because clay is such a protean material, it's a little harder to get natural limitations, so they have to be self-imposed.

I like that saying rayaldridge. Self imposed limitations to increase quality of work. Good stuff.

Whatever you do, just keep doing it. It will be nice to see your results. Cool.

Kiln going! Lots of random combinations. Only time will tell when I open that thing up if its terrible or not. Haven't glazed like this in a while.

I'm sure it will be good.

Well, personally, I could do without the cleaning...

Hahaha, wife works, I stay home with my son all day. Cleaning is my duty!

Looking after family and home while making pottery, sound great to me

I DID IT! After about 20 test firings with tweaking of glazes, bisque firing, and glaze firing. I finally have glossy glazes that I am proud to say are mine. Not only that but I achieved some beautiful results. I also solved my black clay bloating issue at the same time. Only took 5 months of work.

Congratulations!