shawnhar

I like the yellow throwing water drips! (Bowls are cool too...)

Thanks Mark, I hope you are correct! I will let him know when I drop of this batch.

He has chinese ones for $20, so I made the deal for 12 each, that's a 60/40 split in my favor. He's gonna buy the original 30 pots and ask 20 for them, set up in a separate space inside with a sign designating them as locally made by a potter to see if people will buy them. He thinks we can up the price a bit if they sell.

Planters, went to my nearest garden center after work and got a "test" wholesale order for 30 to see if/what sells, spent 2 hours wedging/throwing and ended up with a dozen. It was a good day tater...

Thanks Liam. I completely ruined my 1st 2 kiln loads of mugs, we should form a biker gang and call it The Mug Killers... We booked a small thing at the nature center on the 7th and applied for a big summer show in the next town over, but no "real" shows yet. I don't have any branding/website yet either but we did finally decide on a name, that took forever, so now we can start with the other stuff.

Iv'e seen tons of deer in our back yard, they've scared the heck out of me walking out to the observatory in the evenings just after dark with a loud "HUFF!". That's OK though, Iv'e snuck up on them and gotten payback. Unloaded the kiln with some mugs and planters, and some of my wife's first experiments with underglaze, I think she's gonna do great!. Sure feels good to have work on the table! Getting ready for a show at the nature center in a few weeks.

The 10,000 hr thing is to be a master, at anything, it's a generality of how many hours it takes to master any skill. "Others will want" is pretty vague, I started selling pots I made in the 1st week of throwing, for dirt cheap, they were terrible. Around 500lbs I started getting better, but at 1000lbs I started having some confidence and felt better about selling a few mugs at the going price.

Iv'e gotten pretty good at picking up my mugs from the bat, but your vid makes me want one of those bat systems

At less than a year in, I have gotten way more out of utube, probably by a factor of 5, even though I took 4 or 5 classes since then. There is no option for me to receive physical instruction from a master potter here, I liked my teachers, and they are skilled, but I quickly moved beyond the basics and watching people that have really mastered it helped me tremendously. This forum has also been and continues to be a huge boon. I am still mainly focused on the physical act of making forms.

I got one of those little table top slab rollers and some slab mats when I bought a package deal for someone's studio stuff, but the person didn't give me the boards for it and it has sat unused. I plan to cut some plywood so my wife can use it for handbuilding, but i am out of space, my studio is in our bathroom. So no, I can't even afford to have the little table top roller I already have, lol - Wife says she's gettin' "clausty"!