Joseph Fireborn

Whew... Done! Now I have blackish/grey kiln shelves. The corelite shelves held up a lot better than the cheap ones that I bought a while back. Those are like the ocean now. The corelite ones you can't even tell a grinder was on them. When I finished I patted my clothes off and it was a white dust storm. The sky was blocked and my dog yelped because she was scared of the sudden darkness.

Thanks Denice. Roberta: good news!

I read it when I was starting out formulating my own glazes. It's a great book.

Smoke'em if you got 'em....

Welp. Sprayed for the first time after breaking in my compressor etc. It is interesting. Going to take some practice to get used to the movements and spray gun techniques. I like the low amount of glaze I have to have on hand though. I made some tall cylinders to practice on then fire to see how each different application comes out.

High Volume Low Pressure. Remember, low pressure coming into the gun.

Yea I kept the pressure at around 25 coming into the gun.

Are you ready to reveal the process?

Your process and the learning curve to get there, would make a good CM article.

Looking great! I left some comments. Truly a gorgeous color!

i left some honest comments in your gallery, i was to blablabla to write it all here.

Thanks for honest comments and thoughts everyone/

The excitement of experimenting.

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

yea its neat. I never thought about it, i mean its useless for anyone who doesn't have a disk spinning 24/7, but still neat to watch.

You have a point, Joseph. It's still incredible though.

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

I gave up rather quickly because it hindered crystal development. On my winter list to try it again.

im going to use the grid method on this, when I get the book in the mail soon. I think that will be the best way to figure it out as the glaze will pool and i can test many things quickly, or atleast I hope quickly once I learn it all.

How did any of your tests go? Did you return to them? Searching the forums for various Silicon Carbide posts.

Sorry man, I moved it down here to South Texas.

4 of the 20 tiles came out nice. Now I need to test on bigger pieces.

i found a firing schedule from Perry at Skutt for ^5, just take it to your cone temp.. ill try to post it in my gallery..

segment 1 rate 200 Temp 250 hold none

Segment 2 Rate 400 Temp 1000 no hold

Segment

Segment 3 Rate 180 Temp 1150 no hold = adjust if you are need/want more burn off..

Segment 4 Rate 300 Temp 1967 Hold none

Segment 5 120 Temp 2160 {^5} adjustable =Hold 5 minutes

Segment 6 Rate 125 Temp 1900 Hold 45 minutes

Sent you PM

If you want to see my pots here ya go: http://s1183.photobucket.com/user/josephrosenblatt/library/First Firing of 2016

Wonderful results! I love the dark one with the tiny silver dapples, but my very favorite is the black/red one that looks like strips of fabric are wrapped around the cup under the glaze. Wonderful.

thanks for the kind words

I thought about doing the same thing. I just threw a big bowl with no bottom and straightened the wall and cut it into tiles.

HOWWWW did I miss your avatar being a piranha plant?!! OMG

lol. I made that for my niece a while back. She is big into plants vs zombies so I just looked one up and made it out of clay. Was fun. She painted it later I think.

And this is why it's called a process!

Aye! I enjoy the process more when I make things I love. I love yunomi. Thin beautiful cups. I figure I can apply to other cup shows in 2018 besides AKAR. There is one called SIP. I believe there are others as well. So I might be applying to a lot of those in 2018!

Ooh never thought about that aspect ....

yea, a lot of the times ill make a nice yunomi on a bat when I just get a feeling to make one in my sessions, then after ive made it, im like, this foot is too short for the cup height and I dont like it. throwing off the hump solves this problem. and i need to learn to throw off hump anyways cause I am going to start making a lot of jars and lids are much easier off the humpedy hump.

I tried it once. Threw two small bowls and a vase. Worked pretty well but it was strange because I'm used to weighing everything.

Joseph: I recommend anger management courses; throwing things is a sign of anger from stress.

= ). Oh my son loves to come in when I am throwing pots away. He puts on his safety goggles and tosses them in the trashcan as hard as he can. BAM.

Congrats on the 3 year mark-is that 3 years with clay from scratch 3 years ago?

Yes. I have never touched potter until three years ago. I was bored out of my mind and needed something to do. Got addicted. It has been awesome. Mostly because of everyone here.

Joseph, you should try a currie tile next time. Once you try it you won't go back

I thought about a currie tile or a tri blend. I am not sure where to start. I probably wont even worry about it for a while as I have so much other more important work to do. Maybe when I get some slow time or I just feel like taking a break to experiment.

Posted some of the stuff from the kiln, just a few pictures. My wave mug came out ok. Needs more work. Can't wait to put that on the inside of a large shallow bowl.

I finally got around to watching it. So relaxing with the piano music. I loved seeing your process.

I really enjoyed watching your video. And I have bookmark you for future videos, etc. You are doing so well. Thanks for sharing.

Joseph, I couldn't find a place to follow your blog. Did I miss it or is there just no button?

I have had a far more difficult time getting my glazes right than any other aspect of ceramics. I rarely have issues of any kind with the making process, if I'm going to have a problem it's always with the glazing. It can be really discouraging and the journey to success is different for everyone. It's such a disappointment when time after time you open the kiln and the results you see don't match the one you were going for.

Giselle. I can get my glazes pretty good now. I struggled with replicating results for a long time. But now my real problem is just picking a glaze and sticking to it. Although maybe it isn't a real problem. I do need to start using some glazes on actual work and listing it online for sale. I think I am just going to make yunomi and cups with handles for a while. They are my favorite to make anyways.

I tend to stick to about a half-dozen glazes, I don't think that's too many. How many do you have?

Welp. I think I might have found a temporary direction for a while. I just unloaded one of the best pots in my short career. Pictures coming soon. I also figured out how to layer my white so that it wouldn't be so boring. But I will have to do a ton of testing before that is ready to be used on actual pots. This black iron rich glaze is so darn beautiful.

The problem with going in a direction is you never have consistent stock xD

I think I am going to go for it and just see what I can do with these 3 glazes. Of course I will satisfy my testing hunger with my yunomis as they are a wonderful place to explore form and surface. Can it be true? Will I stick to it? I highly doubt it. HBP is always right.