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  1. Still freezing.  I hate 'pages". Working on a small catalogue & things keep disappearing. Grrrrr..... #$@&^%**!!! software. And no- you tube isn't helpful so far- grrrrrrrr

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    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      ashamed to say that I called in one of my kids to help- I used word - which I'm used to and she'll convert it to pages that has a prettier template- Some days...............

    3. High Bridge Pottery

      High Bridge Pottery

      That's what kids are for :D I used to type up most of my mums stuff because it would take me 1/10th of the time.

    4. LeeU

      LeeU

      Problem is the conversion from Word etc. to Pages etc.and vice-versa is not always a two-way street. It is hard to shift from one system to another when one way is virtually automatic from years of experience and the "new" one has been perversely set up to be "backwards" & everything is in weird places. I feel your pain! 

  2. freezing in my basement studio today :ph34r:

    1. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      Not been in my studio since mid November. Had the flu most of December, and the 0-10 degree weather does not suit me these days. I can heat my studio, just did not feel like doing it this year.

  3. I wish there was an easy way to turn a caternary arch kiln into a salt kiln. I'm too lazy to rebuild it so I guess driving across the province to a salt kiln is my only option right now.

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    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      I thought of that but I currently have a brick up (then brick down) style door and part of that  is scavenged soft brick. Looks like a few "denaros" would be required to build a door. 

    3. Mark C.

      Mark C.

      The bricks can be coated on the insides. You can then spray the salt in thru the burners via a garden sprayer.

    4. terrim8

      terrim8

      the ITC stuff??? Or is there another product? Do you have to be concerned about it falling off into the ware??? Do you use it?

  4. taking a break- going skiing tomorrow!:ph34r:

    1. Marcia Selsor

      Marcia Selsor

      Have fun!

      Marcia

       

    2. High Bridge Pottery

      High Bridge Pottery

      Keep those skis together!

       

    3. terrim8

      terrim8

      wow- I was pretty shaky yesterday. Have to go every day now to get my ski-legs back.

  5. heading to Medalta again for a week!

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    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      Mold making all week with different kinds of machinery!

    3. Callie Beller Diesel

      Callie Beller Diesel

      Jealous! Are you going to check out that store with the weird spray painted tumbleweeds again?

    4. terrim8

      terrim8

      No- I didn't have time! The course was extremely concentrated time wise. i even showed up early as the key fob lets you in- like 6 am once! It might have been easier if I had some experience with it but I didn't and it moved fast. only 1 lathe too so I tried to get in early for that. And it was HOT!!!!!! I didn't even have time for carrot cake!

  6. I took a Shibori style fabric dye course. The concepts are useful for ceramics too and there are some common ingredients. Lots of fun!

    1. Roberta12

      Roberta12

      gotta google that!!

       

    2. Marcia Selsor

      Marcia Selsor

      sounds like fun!

       

    3. terrim8

      terrim8

      we've always used pattern resists but there's some ideas that translate other than fabric folding.

  7. Thank you! Now I just have to get my derriere in gear & make more.....
  8. Yep- that is my home-made prospected-for glaze that I had tested & was so glad that it passed the tests!
  9. terrim8

    Mugs.....

  10. I made a large porcelain bowl. It is 14 inches tall and 22 inches in diameter. Think I need to support it for the cone 6 firing?

    1. terrim8

      terrim8

      the foot is kind of small- about 6 inches diameter. It's handbuilt- not thrown.

    2. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      Depends on the clay, wall thickness. The fact you are not sure, suggests maybe you should.

    3. Roberta12

      Roberta12

      Let us know what you do and the outcome. I always wonder about those things.

  11. just realized why I like Plainsmans M340 cone 6 body. It has muscovite in it! I just ribbed a pie plate very smoothly and noticed the sparkles in the sun.

    1. glazenerd
    2. Marcia Selsor

      Marcia Selsor

      I had a student /rancher that said Plainsman clay got their clay from her Montana ranch. I don't know what part of a clay body it is. I have used M340 when I taught in Billings.

       

    3. terrim8

      terrim8

      interesting- they are close to the border so I guess they operate all around the area.

  12. how long would it take you to throw 100 mugs? I think it would take me all week.

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    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      ya- me too. I have wet pulled handles. I thought about a week- more or less. I'm not "speedy gonzales". I wonder where that came from- speedy gonzales?

    3. terrim8

      terrim8

      oh- just googled it- a cartoon character.

    4. Marko

      Marko

      You're a young one terrim8. LOL or you just didn't watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. ;)

  13. trying out my rebuilt little Paragon kiln to cone 6 today. I usually just use it to bisque but the electrician said it can go to 6 but the elements won't last as long. I wonder what that means exactly....

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    2. Marko

      Marko

      I have a A82B Paragon kiln that I fire to ^6 without any problems. It has actually saved me when my big kiln went down.

    3. Marko

      Marko

      Unless the electrician checked the ohms on the elements. And the condition. I don't think he could make that assessment.

    4. terrim8

      terrim8

      believe it or not, it was a bit of kiln brick fragment stuck way deep in the sitter.  Its fixed now. 

      I should start shopping for a used nice electric kiln with a controller. Maybe I can find one in the US and ship it back across the border????

       

  14. trying a quick dry method- involves trimmed mugs, 2 fans and outdoors in warm & unusually humid air for our area.

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    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      mugs and lamps so fingers crossed. (i.e. mid fire grey clay and some porcelain)

    3. terrim8
    4. Roberta12
  15. I had the same problem. I like the colour of the dark body PSH- black clay, so I made a slip out of it and I use it with my regular Plainsman cone 6 clay. So far- so good. I bisque to 04 and I have an old bisque kiln with just a kiln sitter so I couldn't soak it at 04. The slip seems to be a good solution but I have also just made some things out of the dark clay without glaze and that works too. My profile picture is of unglazed black PSH and a cone 6 porcelain mixed together.
  16. So happy & relieved - my home-mined glaze is good to go. Lab results were good!

    1. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      Sounds like a good day at the pottery mill.

    2. Min

      Min

      phew! glad to hear you got good lab results : )

    3. terrim8

      terrim8

      I will be planting roses this week and mining with each rose.

  17. Or... make something out of your own mix of clay with a flame-ware recipe from scratch (no buying ready-made clay) , then make some type of food with it -so, start to finish - raw material to finished food item made in the flame-ware. ( cross between pottery throw down & great bake-off) (I've been wanting to learn how to make flame-ware)
  18. that lab is slow. I think I'm stuck behind a big order they're working on. I'll show pictures of the new glaze as soon as I pass the tests!

    1. Callie Beller Diesel

      Callie Beller Diesel

      If they're running Dean Starks, or anything else related to core, you're probably not their priority right now. You'd likely get faster service in the summer.

  19. wish I still had it digitally. Its next to the Forestry office and their helicopter lands there.
  20. still testing glazes....but making things while I wait for results.

    1. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      We going to see these results?

    2. terrim8

      terrim8

      yep! I hope to pick up some today- mind you its just test chips before I glaze the next load- then i'll post pictures.

  21. terrim8

    other stuff

    old pictures of pots around the studio, reclaiming bowl, cones in the kiln,...
  22. From the album: other stuff

    One of my favourite pictures and I don't have it digitally anymore. This is from a paper copy I had on the wall.
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