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Min got a reaction from BARAKE SCULPTOR in What’s on your workbench?
Last pot on the bench today, carved vase.
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Min got a reaction from terrim8 in What’s on your workbench?
Last pot on the bench today, carved vase.
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Min got a reaction from preeta in What’s on your workbench?
Last pot on the bench today, carved vase.
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Min reacted to Mark C. in What’s on your workbench?
Mondays bench (actually 3 areas)-glaze wares from two fires priced and packed-lots of mugs
Pots been flying out of here lately-shipped to Vermont-So-Cal gallery-all local outlets-
All stocked to the gills for Mothers day and our Collage Graduation weekend-usually a large sales event for all shops locally
today bench is empty -off to a show in am for 5 days
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Min reacted to Mark C. in What’s on your workbench?
Last Wedesday It looked like a wheel repair shop on my bench-really my outside tables next to kilns under large metal roof
I bought a new old stock model A new in the box. These have not been made for 15 -20 years or more. I took it apart and sealed the deck edge and bottom with 6 coats of clear sealer (pressboard with a plastic top )
I also replaced the top deck hardware with stainless steel fasteners and replaced the belt since the original belt had a flat spot from sitting 20 years.I had all the parts as I have a model A already for trimming. This is my 6th Brent wheel now.Not sure what I'm doing with the two extras wheel yet as I use only 4 of them now.
Thursday my bench was filled with bisque ware -Friday it all got glazed and loaded into two kilns and today Saturday the bench is empty.
Monday the bench will be covered with two glaze fires unloading-pricing and packing-some to my outlet a few (one box) to mothers day show at UC Davis next weekend and most summer back stock .Monday night bench will be again empty. Its about every week-pots on bench pots gone pots on bench pots gone.
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Min reacted to Pres in What’s on your workbench?
Busy glazing once again, Honey Jars this time to be out on Thursday for trip Friday.
best,
Pres
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Min got a reaction from lgusten in What’s on your workbench?
Thanks for posting my question Pres.
hanging planters for succulents
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Min reacted to Pres in What’s on your workbench?
Glazing today, bisque is just turned off. Glaze load goes in tomorrow, then another on Tuesday. This is today load that I have finished glazing though the pic was taken this morning before.
best,
Pres
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Min reacted to Callie Beller Diesel in What’s on your workbench?
My workbench is full of ugly bisque again. I really is my least favourite stage. But a week and a half ago, I decided it would be a good idea to document some new compost buckets before I was packing them up to go to a sale. These are much nicer pictures!
Before you make fun of me for my product staging, I was legit making soup stock with the Easter turkey.
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Min reacted to dhPotter in What’s on your workbench?
A kiln load has been waiting for a month to be glazed and single-fired.
After work and weekends have been building a chicken coop with double chicken run. Been raining so much have really put construction behind. Chicks arrive May 8.
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Min got a reaction from Gabby in What’s on your workbench?
(Waster donuts, take less clay than cookies)
Mugs were my last thing on the bench today
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Min got a reaction from GEP in What’s on your workbench?
(Waster donuts, take less clay than cookies)
Mugs were my last thing on the bench today
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Min reacted to GEP in What’s on your workbench?
On my workbench today ... an experimental bowl with an exaggerated footring/pedestal. How the heck do I fire this thing, on a waster cookie?
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Min reacted to neilestrick in What’s on your workbench?
Busy day glazing today! These are all waxed and ready to dip.
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Min reacted to Callie Beller Diesel in QotW: Do you have favorite shapes or forms in your work?
I seem to have a 20 year fixation with small lidded jars. It started about my third year in college, and has been a form I've worked with off and on ever since. That, and mugs. So. Many. Variations. For both of those forms.
I went through a depression several years ago now, and I wasn't able to make a whole heck of lot, but I knew it was important to me to keep making. I thought, well, the simplest thing to make is a cylinder. I didn't really just want to throw plain cylinders and scrap them, so I decided just to add a handle so I could feel like I was doing something productive. So consequently, I can make mugs no matter how much I may not feel like doing anything. I'll usually start a work cycle with them, because it gets me into a rythm of moving, which allows me to make the next thing, and the next thing...etc,
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Min got a reaction from yappystudent in QotW: Do you make feminine, masculine or gender neutral work and is it a conscious decision?
When LeeU said “one of my more masculine pieces” in another thread it had me contemplating her comment. Masculine and feminine encompass a large set of related characteristics, would be hard pressed to make a pot that didn’t have curves but that alone doesn’t make a pot feminine. Are visually heavy pots defined as masculine? At first this seems like an easy question but I’m finding it very hard to nail down what defines a pot as masculine or feminine and yet I have no problem looking at a pot and thinking it is one or the other or neither. Does our subconscious make the decision for us?
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Min got a reaction from terrim8 in What’s on your workbench?
Thanks for posting my question Pres.
hanging planters for succulents
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Min reacted to oldlady in What’s on your workbench?
today i had things on my workbench i would be happy to let anyone see. hope they all make it through the next steps to finished product.
i would be happy if i could capture in the final firing that soft color of the slip. who knows how it will look when it is finished?
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Min reacted to oldlady in What’s on your workbench?
"bench" is buried. kiln is bisque firing and i cannot use the space until it is opened and i restore the space. i only bisque during the winter when i am a thousand miles from my glaze kitchen and big kiln. that allows me to get the pieces home.
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Min reacted to Joe_L in What’s on your workbench?
Raw Glazing. And in the background a first attempt at throwing a double walled vessel and then carving it.
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Min reacted to Gabby in What’s on your workbench?
Winter tea bowls in red clay, part of a series I call "Wild Heart." They will all have a red accent somewhere on the bowl.
I have hand-built some using a simple template that gives them a squared shape at the base above the foot ring, and I threw a couple this morning.
But it is too cold, really, to go very long at all. Today I threw wearing a thermal shirt, thermal pants, and a down vest.
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Min reacted to Marcia Selsor in What’s on your workbench?
working on pieces for Invitational at one gallery, a wood firing in June, and seasonal gallery opening in Nye, Mt.
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Min reacted to karenkstudio in What’s on your workbench?
Working on found object texture tiles to be raku fired and assembled for a wall hanging.
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Min reacted to Callie Beller Diesel in What’s on your workbench?
Good question for a Monday morning!
I have a kiln load of bisque that needs washing and waxing. I’ve got samples for a mug re-design for an existing client and a big pile of test tiles in the bin to go along with that, I have 18 mugs for a new client, and serving bowls, sugar jars and more mugs for upcoming spring shows. And I have weekly scheduling, and homework for an online business course on the go.
Yes, this is my kitchen. Washing and waxing bisque is the only job I really do outside of my studio this time of year. It’s still too cold to take it outside yet.