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  1. Joseph Fireborn

    Made some breakthroughs in my glaze work this week. Finally going to have some stability in the final product which is what I needed to move forward in production quantities for online, future shows and galleries!

    1. Min

      Min

      If you were a mariner your vessel would be a sailboat.

      I think you enjoy the journey as much as the destination. 

    2. Joseph Fireborn

      Joseph Fireborn

      This is very true. I like a good journey, lots of interesting discussion and things to see along the way.

  2. Joseph Fireborn
    Been making yunomi around the clock. I have been testing a lot of clay mixes and additions and I have some big plans for my standard white glaze work. Also been making some new marks on my work that I haven't usually made and I plan to leave the areas rawish of clay. Hopefully, once I can get what is in my head down on the pot it will be as beautiful as I imagine it. I could literally make yunomi and nothing else for the rest of my life. They are the absolute perfection of a pot.
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    Green house isn't as good as a wet box for sure. It will give you a day or so to catch up but after that gonna be to dry. I mostly like it for even drying more than anything.
  4. Joseph Fireborn
    I use a small green house for my mug handles. Works perfectly. I also use it for when something comes up and I can't get to my work to trim it.
  5. Joseph Fireborn
    I just want to be doing more pottery and making more things that I love.
  6. Joseph Fireborn

    Working on a soft blue glaze today to celebrate the gender of my baby on the way. I think I might do some limited edition work in a very soft robins egg blue since that is my favorite mason stain to date. Finally getting some time in the studio again. Life is crazy.

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    2. Joseph Fireborn

      Joseph Fireborn

      Thanks Old Lady and Benzine!

    3. Denice

      Denice

      Congratulations a Libra,  my birthday is October 15.   Libra is a great first child,  I was quiet and had lots of patience,  Libra's are all about balance and peace.   Most Libra's are very artistic so you may have a potter in the womb.    Denice

    4. Gabby

      Gabby

      Congratulations. So much to look forward to.

  7. Joseph Fireborn
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    nice spray work. really can tell the time you put into learning the spray gun and glaze methods.
  8. Joseph Fireborn
    First Mug of the New Year!

    From the album: Mugs

  9. Joseph Fireborn

    Mugs

    Images added to a gallery album owned by Joseph Fireborn in Browse Member Galleries

  10. Joseph Fireborn
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    Family comes first. Sounds like a lot of good things heading your way.
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    Sorry! I missed this. Yes, I still work with an electric kiln. I love my electric kiln. It is so wonderful! Took me a while to accept that, but once I did I was able to achieve a lot more than just wishing I had the ability to fire another type of firing. How are you?
  12. Joseph Fireborn

    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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    2. Benzine

      Benzine

      Single firing, I take it? 

      I have neither the skill nor disposition to attempt that...  I have had some of my students, make that decision for me though.  Thus far, it has been on wares, that I didn't stack...

    3. Joseph Fireborn

      Joseph Fireborn

      Yes! I single-fire a good bit of work. Sometimes I bisque and sometimes I single fire it just depends. It would have been fine if I had turned on my preheat. Haha.

    4. Benzine

      Benzine

      I am OCD, on my kiln.  I will check the program numerous, times, check that the vent hood is on,  etc.  Because that one time that you don't...

  13. Joseph Fireborn
    Aye. RIP Warren. Legend.
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    Haha. Makes me happy.
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    From the album: Yunomi

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    Yunomi

    Images added to a gallery album owned by Joseph Fireborn in Browse Member Galleries

  17. Joseph Fireborn

    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.

    1. dhPotter

      dhPotter

      Think about using this glaze to do your line blend - https://digitalfire.com/4sight/recipes/cone_6_dolomite_matte_base_glaze_121.html

      I used this and a clear in a line blend to get an excellent satin white liner glaze. Came out to use 40% clear and 60% dolomite matte. Had 3 good candidates to choose from. I was looking for a white liner that was not to shiny but not scratchy. 

    2. Joseph Fireborn

      Joseph Fireborn

      Cool. I will try if what I did doesn't work. Yarr! 

  18. Joseph Fireborn
    Bless all you awesome people here. The stories of your overcoming are inspirational. Keep up the hard work.
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    Thanks Yappy
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    From the album: Mugs

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    Just pulled this out of the kiln. One of my better pots with this decoration style. Figured I would share in the joy of posting stuff on workbench! Waiting on the rest of the load to cool so I can see all the rest of it. Hopefully more as good as this one. It is nice to get a little reward before I take a long pottery break yet again to study. Hopefully I will have time to get back out in the garage and get some more work made!
  22. Joseph Fireborn
    Ear. The only way I like my handles. Although I want to try the kind where its an ear with a finger pulled up at the top. Like this, by Ayumi Horie:
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    I like this color a lot. Very well done.
  24. Joseph Fireborn
    My workbench is empty! Well besides all the non pottery related junk on it. I just pulled out some of the best yunomi I have ever made in my entire life. So that was epic. I am going to make 6 bowls to donate to the Patsiliga kiln in south Georgia, its a big woodfired kiln. I have never been a part of the wood firing, but I would like to be one day. I like supporting stuff like that anyways. I am going to go to the bowl event and deliver my bowls and maybe even buy someone else's work. I might post the bowls after I have slipped them with black crackle slip, and maybe after the kiln as well, since this seems like a progress type of thread! I am glad everyone is still here rocking away. Good to be back even if its only for a few weeks.
  25. Joseph Fireborn
    Yunomi
    I'm definitely pleased. It's a beautiful pot and everything I want. Lots of surface texture color varation and more! Thanks for kind words.
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