Joseph Fireborn
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That moment you have been making jars with a gallery and also a lid inner gallery that are so perfect that when you wax them they no longer fit inside of each other... perfection. Then that moment where you realize you forgot to turn on a preheat for your greenware to fire in a glaze firing and remember at 540F before you have a terrible disaster in your kiln and you stop it and vacuum it the next day. Thank you Jesus.
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That moment you have been making jars with a gallery and also a lid inner gallery that are so perfect that when you wax them they no longer fit inside of each other... perfection. Then that moment where you realize you forgot to turn on a preheat for your greenware to fire in a glaze firing and remember at 540F before you have a terrible disaster in your kiln and you stop it and vacuum it the next day. Thank you Jesus.
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I just finished cleaning it. L&L so nice. A pocket knife to lift the elements up slightly and vacuum under them and it took me about 30 minutes to make it look brand spanking new again. But yes. I am very lucky. It would have destroyed my kiln. There were shards of clay covered in glaze everywhere. I would have had to replace tons of bricks, element holders and elements. I am very fortunate today!
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In Shanghai airport on my way to Australia for Christmas and the only thing that I can seem to access is this forum ;D. Not blocked by their fire wall.
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Be safe! Enjoy your trip!
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Going to run some line blends today. I want to matte down my standard white glaze slightly. I want it to be more of a sheen satin and not a solid glossy glaze. Taking a much needed day break from my studies.
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After 1.5~ years working as a receptionist and saving money I have moved to Stoke-on-Trent to find a job in a pottery factory
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YAY! Fanfreakingtastic! Best of luck to you.
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So excited My first regional entry and one of my submissions has been chosen.
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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Gabby that is awesome! I am so excited to be there in a few years.
Thanks Min for those words of encouragement!
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Concrete slab getting poured on Monday. Walls will follow shortly. This will be my new kiln shed for year-round firing ability ...as long as I can shovel my way out there!
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Nice. You get to much snow I think. Send some south, my son will be thankful.
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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Min, my studies went well. I graduated with a degree in economics, straight A's my last semester in the hardest classes I've ever taken. It has been an interesting week. I just got accepted into a Masters for in Teaching Middle Grades Education. So I will be doing even more studying over the next 1.5 years. But I am excited to get back to what I always wanted to do before cancer beat me down a few times. Teaching Kids MATH! WOoo. I will hopefully get on here more to read all the good stuff happening here. I won't be doing a lot of pottery still, going to make some bowls for a fundraiser for a big wood kiln down in south Georgia. Probably going to make those tomorrow.
Hey TOM! I might throw your porcelain tomorrow!
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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Hey Mea, Roberta, and Callie! Hope you three ladies are doing well. I checked out your stuff on instagram when I installed it for a few days. Looks like you all have been rocking beautiful pots as always.
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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That's awesome! 50% is amazing!
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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No reason to worry. Just had to put some studies in front of my pottery. Thanks for all the nice words.
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I have made a section on my Pinterest Clay board on Kilns & Firing, specific to the anagama kiln that John Baymore "made happen" for the New Hampshire Intute of Art. Check it out https://www.pinterest.com/LeeUstinich/clay-kilns-and-firing/fushigigama-nhia-wonder-kiln-at-sharon-art-center-/
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I have chosen an electrician. ***confetti***
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KABOOM! *fireworks*
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you can lead a horse to water but...
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Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.
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I am not trying to replicate wood fired pieces, I just really like those surfaces.
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Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.
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Tom, I posted some pictures of a vase just for you.
Enjoy.
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Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.
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It isn't anything to do with the site. Just didn't think it was needed to put pictures in two places my Instagram and here. Plus I try to minimize as much as I can.
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Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.
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I stopped posting pictures here. If I get a good one I will PM you.
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So I'm buying a kiln. Probably a Skutt from Georgie's. How do you like them bananas?
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Make sure you think about what your end goal is for how large of things you want to fire. I have a little kiln and its brilliant and I love it, but I can't make big platters or tall vases. In retrospect, I wish I would have gotten either wider or taller, but not much bigger. That being said any kiln is 100% better than no kiln, or a kiln you don't have control over the firings.
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So I'm buying a kiln. Probably a Skutt from Georgie's. How do you like them bananas?
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I like bananas, and kilns. So WOO HOO FOR YOU!
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Just peeked in my kiln full of test tiles with wood ash mixtures, pastes, and soda washes. Some very very promising results. Can't wait for the next 250F to cool so I can open that beast and spend days looking at every inch of every tile! It has been way too long since I have run a kiln load full of tiles.
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I just emailed him thanking him for all his past post. They are enlightening.
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Just peeked in my kiln full of test tiles with wood ash mixtures, pastes, and soda washes. Some very very promising results. Can't wait for the next 250F to cool so I can open that beast and spend days looking at every inch of every tile! It has been way too long since I have run a kiln load full of tiles.
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Nice. I have some really beautiful wood ash results that I just pulled out of the kiln. I am very happy with them. Formulated them all myself. Getting the hang of the feldspars. Out of the earth and into the fire was an absurd recommendation from John. I miss him.
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