Mark C.

If they are clean flipping will be fine. Just wash the other side. They will slowly warp the other way now.

The covers have to come off. Its ( agota come off) as they say in Italian

Cress kilns of that vintage have some blue on the control boxes-they where in business in the 70s for sure A photo would help-does this kiln have a infinite dial for turning up?

Are they real wood or flake board (composite) . Ware boards usually are pretty dry so your must be getting them wet. Describe your use-are you keeping wet clay on them?

I have a set of rules that apply to any contact-They always inculde pricing shipping pick up and how to pay and the like 1st off return email to weed out the tire kickersand shorten the back and forth. The fish plate guy made it thru all that with flying colors Photos are always 3 or 4 options down the line I did a post years back on email pots taking an average of 7 contacts back and forth usually before the credit card call comes thru and its over..I could throw lots of pots in that time frame. My business model that works very well is not depending on web/email sales. Thank my lucky stars on that.

In the past 50 years I few with a small suitcase packed 100% with stilts/pots. The xray folks had a melt down as it was a solid. I few a brick in hand carry (due to weight limits on checked bags) back from New Zealand. Untold pots coming and going.

As long as the original labels are on the jars I think you are fine. I would tape the lids down to be safe.and put them in a plastic bage for each as well

I like the euclids two screw barrel type see if they will work for you. I keep a stock of them when needed. https://euclids.com/collections/connectors-lead-outs One trick I have used when trying to reuse the element with a crimp connector on it is to grind off that connector with a small angle grinder so as not to shorten the pigtail on the element at all . If you go slow and then use some sharp electrical dikes it pretty easy to leave the elenment pig tail full length. I have replaced all cramp connectors with the Euclid barrel type as they work so much better. If you need a small one (I see thay are out now-I can mail you one) Or I can measure to the screw and see if it will grab tor pig tail (1/4 inch you say) Let me know via a PM. We are in a huge wind storm right now and the power is out (not for us - as we have a generator) Bomb wet cyclone is bearing down on us this am.Been wild with two large earthquakes (one on new years the other Dec 20th) and this is our second atmospheric river to hit us in a few days.I am slowing finding earthquake stuff (no real damage yet)

Every Year I push hard at Xmas season all of November and the 24 days of Dec keeping the galleries and stores stocked and selling at my own booth full of wares as well. I stop sending any mail order out before thanksgiving. Then I pack it up and take at least 6 weeks off from Xmas day to mid to early Feb. Tax prep and tree pruning, clean studio etc. The start of the new new sales year for me is Dec 26th really that’s when it can either stay sleepy or pick up with mail orders via email Every year its different. I like the sleepy years-a Hundred-dollar minimum slowed orders a lot 2021 which was the idea. They seem to always show a theme-from sleepy to busy and now this year-space cadets So, this year I have had 4 emails asking about pottery in past week and only one follow thru It’s what I call the new space cadets. I broke a fish plate can I get another as asap. Yes, I have some but you will have to come out to studio, ok no problem, so I send him a photo of 7 choices of what he wants-and 3 days later no response. Packed them up and moved on today. The next two where a bit like the 1st one. It’s the new world order of I want it but not really . Wholesale is a bit more work but no space cadets. I'm starting to like the separation from the cadets Today’s order is looking solid ,4 huge mugs to Ma. I do not want to count these chickens before they hatch Wens update Mugs got paid for and shipped today of to MD I hope this ends the space cadet run

I put in 2 mini splits since 2019 -one in our kitchen dining room (12 foot ceilings) and one in the master bedroom. They are heat pumps with outside compressors on cement pads.They heat or cool. We have gotten hotter in summer and now use the cool funtion now and then as well as thge heat fuction in the winter. These are mini splits are easy to install and am thinking about one in studio-they are pretty cheap as well. They are the most efficient heat and cooling there is so far.Mine are Mr Cool units both under 2k to by. The install is easy if you are handy We also have a 98% efficient whole house natural gas heater (small heated closests as well) I upgraded units in 2015 from 82% to 98% We also have a mini pellet stove in living room which we use a lot during winter (nov-april) A pallet of chips last 2-3 years

I have never locked down a bat pin on any wheel in my 50 year career. I pull them up most of the time and put them in when needed. They stay put and uaually are hard to pull out after some time goes by. Wing nut as Kelly said if you want them locked up. As. Dick said the wing nuts can hit a splash pan. The stainless ones sound pretty nice. I keep a small bowl on shelve near wheel with a couple of types some are ground down a dat to fist tighter bats. I throw on clay pad 90% of time and use plaster bats so no pins are used. When I threw it all on bats I droped in the pins and never thought about wing nuts

Laguna has a body that can do it as Kelly said above I'm not sure of the cone range but 6 for sure-I think they have acone 10 one as well-thes eare fairly new for them as well. The glaze fit needs to work well.

We had a xmas pair of chipmunks around the kiln for a spell this year.They liked the warmth of the chimney area where I have lots of English dry pressed shelves stacked up from long ago

(Do you know what type of ceramic casserole dishes that big box stores sell? They seem to withstand thermal shock fairly well.) Thats a complete unknown -they are massed produced (slip cast or ram pressed) they most likey were produced with some cerramic engineering done in terms of body firing temp and glaze. They are made offshore most likely as well. China -Thailand-Japan?

Check this out for how to info https://www.amaco.com/equipment_how_tos

(Could just be a lifetime of accumulation,) nope its all from the same co-op market-I was there for about 3+ years.And I pulled out over a year ago so its all work from that short period. Remember all pots have the original stickers on them-never used. Very clean (not dusty) all where wrapped in large boxes then put away.

Its under warrenty still call them (amaco/Brent ) The wheel head (bearing and shaft are all one unit) they do not come apart. it it a wobble when throwing? why are yopu lifting it up? anything drop onto head?

You have wasted to much time already just looking at it

She was to old for any of that Lee-her Husband had passed a few years ago they said. It made her feel good. She had money and I think of as a illness of sorts. But whatever makes you feel good -no harm to others just stuffed the house. It looks like she wrapped it all as soon as it got home and when a box was full she stashed it away like a squirrel.

Ok if you read my post on buying back over $3500 new unused pottery from a horders estate sale for $450 then you know how starnge and rare that might be. well lighning strikes again on that front Today the day after Christmas at 4 pm I was bookkeeping on the desktop on a very rainy windy day. The phone rings and its the estate sale guy from 3 weeks ago. They found three more large boxes of my pottery and they need to get it gone. He says $100 for it all and you have to pick it up today. I had sanitized/reorganized my van on the only dry day Xmas afterr stuffing it full from taking xmas booth down xmas eve. I Jumped in and drove the 35 minutes back to that house. Last time it was jambed full-this time thay has a box moving trck and all that was left in the whole house was my pottery that they just found in 3 boxed in a hidden space in large kitchen under a counter back water area. My guess is 1-2 k worth of stuff.I'll go thru it in a few days. Just like last time all new all still with sales tags on bottoms. I found out that this person bought my pots wrapped them and boxed them and put them away like xmas ornaments -all 5 k worth. She may have been my best customer-well its a toss up as another from the east coast who runs a private jet rental service may have her beat ? Hard to say as she bought dinnerware sets and lots of st=uff over time where as this lady bought it all in 3 years from one organic market before I quit them. When I left the house a hour ago it was 100% empty of all contents-I drove home in disbelieve as Santa Extended xmas one more day at least to me Merry xmas and Happy Holidays from Linda and Mark

Oldlady Its not my town but a town nearby. Our Fair has two parades one each day at 1 pm I have done this fair since the 1st one in 1974 and am on the board whom runs the fair-we are called the same old people the Saturday parade around the plaza (and show) is called All Species-this parade is also been going on the longest back when our show was a one day in the 70s and 80s now its two days past 35 year or so here is this years all species-It was a ariny day but the rain stopped just before the parade and the dancers where dry the whole way around the square. I love this show-we are looking for more potters so feel free to apply as potters are rare around here these days The second link is the Sunday Samba Parade which is over the top now-this was filmed about 20 feet from my pottery booth.

Its all part of a slow down plan I started when I was 63. I stopped doing my most successful show (twice a year in Temps AZ for 24 years). I was driving to Tempe at age 63 and heard the famous Beatles song when I'm 64 and in that moment decided that when I was 64 I was not going to do the show anymore (its a solid two day drive) Since then I cut 8 shows to 6 than to 4 and then to 3 then covid hit. When I gave up myTempe show (in early Dec and springtime) I also did my local outlets and my xmas booth as well at that time.At that time my xmas season brought in about 25-30% of all income. December was a huge month for me for about 35 years. I thought I had saturated my local market area. Then when I had that production time off I fell into a local organic suoper market sales situation and expanded to 4 local orgainic markets. That turned into more money that the shows I stopped doing. Change can be rewarding in ways one does not expect .I quit 1/2 those markets during covid buying craze as it was to much to keep up with in 2021. After working and selling twice as much as a normal years in 2020/2021 I needed to really slow it down more. The tax man really made out those years My xmas booth is about 15% of total yearly sales so its not really that slow for me-no recliner chair yet in this house . What it really is now after a 50 years of my own retailing directly -now its down to one show and 8 local outlets and one huge wholesale account . My plan as it evolves now is work for a few months and then take a few off to keep a stockpile of work to supply outlets. I also have studio assistant so it all needs to work for us .I have commited to two large orders a year to my Harmony Gallery outlet down on the central coast (near where Hulk lives) Its a new phase for me and I know whats I'm cutting out next when I need to hit the brakes again. I was talking to a full timer like me potter friend who lives in Santa Barbara (he is slowed it down already) and we both have lost the mental drive to make a ton of work and hit the road and bring home 15-20K from shows on trip and then do it all over again and again. It's just gone now at this age.It's no longer about money. I still like the making/firing and selling just not as much as I used to.Caly has been good to me-kept me in shape and will in the future. I have many other interests as well-always have. Life is short and for me at times I feel I'm way past my due date (as Jackson Brown says on his new CD). I was on a 24 day dive trip in Bali two months ago (47 beach dives in 18 days with a camera) so I am still able to move well. We shall see how it evolves from here-tax prep in on my horizion now-oh ya I need to stock up the markets and shops after they got wiped out at xmas tomorrow and the next day

Well after 43 years I packed up my last xmas pottery booth . I flew a sign past 12 days telling customers I would not have this booth next year at xmas. Get my work in September at my only show I will be doing . They where not as happy about as I am to say the least but-they still have options Its in same small town (15K population) only its 3rd weekend in Sept. I have build upo a huge following in those consecutive 43 years I'm already supplying 8 local outlets as well , dropping off pottery about every 2-4 days at xmas as well.Since I was in my later 20s I have always had this booth in the same shopping center -in front of a large drug store (its changed these names all thru my years-value giant,payless, longs drugs, rite aid ,CVS) In front of Safeway for 5 more years and then the past 12-15 years in front of locally owned pet store. The money has been great as has the customers but as I approach 70 its in my plan to slow it down and this xmas I put the booth away permanently (this booth is made just for this location) -not the sales racks but the lockable booth. I have a younger potter friend I'm, hoping to give the whole deal to if his health gets better. I offered it free of charge and would set him up in it if he is able next year or the following. I have permission from 4 property owners around town for signage in their years and I and pass it all on if and its a big if he can do it. I operate booth from 12-5 weekdays 11-5 Friday-sat sun. Those hours I learned from decades of messing with the best profitable hours. I also have sales help and have paid them well so they always wanted to come back-all the things you learn over time. Next xmas eve I will not be packing up that booth or driving 30 times into town last few weeks before xmas. Yes less sales but thats the idea-that town sells my work in 3 locations year around anyway-not this huge selection but alot of choices. Its a new transition for me-iI think I made my last canister sets for example and now dinnerware will only be made to order small stuff like that. I'm cutting back on forms (no longer 35 ) My wrist will like this change as well as its not happy right now. I'm leaving that flying dog in the window behind now Merry Christmas all

Vases are a slow sellers for me except at holiday times like this week and Valentine's Day and Mothers day You need to know not only what sells best but When it sells best to take advantage of the market. Keep making spoon rests -I can do 48 in about 40-45 minutes (one pug cut into 48 pieces) No trimmers they are recession proof after 25 years I just raised my price on them last year Gas is up 60-70+ percent last bill (todays bill came and it was $1,313) for big kiln and 4 small kiln glaze fires.