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Matt black cone 6 oxidation glaze 

Nicest customer at my market today. She invited us to a bbq dinner at her place after the market today. Total sweetheart.

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!

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!

greenware cracks

Need to dry out and launder my entire display, after a rain-soaked weekend show.

My passive-aggressive neighbour is out cutting the grass after he threw all the pinecones back into my yard. We had some strong winds a few days ago. Thinking of making some clay pinecones, but maybe not-  since the real ones  are from my pine tree

I am new and ask ,why does the glaze crack after kiln.

Hey Mark,

You said recently that you are going to be at the upcoming event in Davis this weekend. Where are you gong to be set up and how many days are you going to be there? If I can break away, I would like to come by and meet you...

JohnnyK

Searching for a transparent honey colored glaze, this one is too dark, 2018.

Hey Mark,

I am an American Potter working and Living in Windhoek Namibia. Been a potter since 1968.  My mom is from Scotia, CA. Redwoods.

Just read your post about steel bracing a kiln.

I am building a cross draft wood fired kiln out of bricks made of Magnesia. 8x8x 3" tapered. Makes a 3M circle. Donated from a Cement factory. Not ideal but they fire to 1700c. Can't get wet though. Causes them to fail. Weird. 

Anyway,  the design id from Olsens Kiln book. Page 126-8. Also from a Dec 1977 Ceramics Monthly Mag.

Aparently the bracing wasn't secure enough. Maybe the valve lifte® springs that gave way but when we removed the arch form support the wall opisite the chimney spread open about 1/2 inch. The arch is made up of 7 cources of 29 bricks = 232.5 bricks that weigh 9 k each = 2092.5 Kilos = 4603.5 lbs!

So we are placing buttresses on the wall/ We took off the arch and will repair any spreading. I will double the existing thickness of the wall with red brick and cement and add steel or cement buttresses. And better bracing at the middle and bottom of the kiln. Oh yeah and get rid of the springs!

Any thoughts?

John Hunter

Has anybody worked with slate clay?

Gas prices are crazy here, $1.57 / litre, works out to $5.97 a US gallon. Expected to go up again later in the week. Glad I don't have to drive to work!!!

Packing up for Cherokee Triangle art fair! First big show of the season, and first big show with the new work. Super nervous!

Gas prices are crazy here, $1.57 / litre, works out to $5.97 a US gallon. Expected to go up again later in the week. Glad I don't have to drive to work!!!

I have chosen an electrician. ***confetti***

Monday glaze day-been nursing pulled back muscle all week

Making a mug for a neighbor...I sense a slippery slope here.

cloudy and cooler today -76 degrees with light trade winds

Ordered my first kiln, the KM818 from Skutt. 240v configuration. 4-6wks. Yay! (I hope). Thanks to all for their input on my choice. 

just recycled a s___t load of Polar Ice. Its so expensive that you can't toss this stuff. Made out of  New Zealand halloysite. 

just recycled a s___t load of Polar Ice. Its so expensive that you can't toss this stuff. Made out of  New Zealand halloysite. 

Took the day off and caught 100#s of herring for bait.Two glaze fires in am for me now.

just recycled a s___t load of Polar Ice. Its so expensive that you can't toss this stuff. Made out of  New Zealand halloysite. 

So I'm buying a kiln. Probably a Skutt from Georgie's. How do you like them bananas?