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Welp, I've been on the lookout for a decent deal on a wheel and I found a brand new Skutt prodigy for 650. Couldn't pass it up. Got it set up tonight and wow what a difference. Anyway, threw another 9 bowls, I think I've got it now! I think I'll have enough for a kiln load by the weekend haha.

Yep the rims are thin, my wife likes the entire bowl as thin as possible, and since she's my only customer right now, she gets what she wants!

We don't have a dishwasher! The only colorants are 3 copper, 1.5 cobalt, 6 rutile and of course the magical 14 titanium. I usually use my 20x5 + zircopax and titanium as a liner, works great!

Could be! It's just a glaze test though. I'll do a lemon test on this one, I've heard of SCM causing normally durable glazes to be underfired. These titanium crystals are insane though. Love the look!

So out of my glaze tests, this combo was the most promising. My other glazes didn't really respond well to SCM, at least not in a beautiful way.

Yeah, I grabbed the wrong box last night and didn't feel like hauling it back inside. This red clay is a lot smoother than my yellow stuff, so I can't complain too much. I like both equally, it just takes a few days before my throwing water and wheel turn colors

Thanks! I just pulled the rim out on opposing sides

Round 1

Under these is strontium crystal magic, just want to see what they'll do on a vase, I already know what they do on their own and with each other, the SCM is the only unknown here. I'm firing it on a waster so it should be a lot of fun, muahahahah. Made this picture so I can remember what went where on the dang pot since it's a harlequin of sorts now with overlapping colors.

I don't know about you, but I've never had a test tile come out the way it comes out on a pot. Since I'm testing these glazes for a specific set of pots, I threw a few smaller but the same shape just for testing the glaze, hard to translate a tile onto a large vase. I do use test tiles for experimenting with glaze recipes, nothing works better for line blends or small adjustments.

Today I mixed up a couple new glazes and sacrificed a few pots to see what they'll look like. Doing a glaze firing now, it should be cool enough to open up and take a look tomorrow night! This week I will go back to trying to throw repeat bowls. I need to step up my bowl game, I'm pretty decent at mugs now. I just need to finish putting handles on all of last week's mugs and then it's bowls bowls bowls. Gonna force myself to figure out getting them to the gauge every time. Oh yeah, and I have to finish editing my latest YouTube video. Hah. I don't think people realize how difficult editing video is until they're neck deep in it. Kudos to any YouTubers out there

Interesting! A lot of what I'm thinking when making forms is "how will the glaze react to this form?" And it still never quite reacts the way I envisioned, I need to work on my vision

Here's the article for the lazy among us: https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/ceramics-monthly/ceramic-art-and-artists/ceramic-artists/lessons-learned-time/ Nice read but if you've lurked around here for a while it's all OLD HAT! I need to settle into some things, I can throw 30 mugs a night that all look pretty much the same, but for some reason bowls are a total mess for me. I need to figure out a better way to bring them to the gauge because the way I learned bowls was to V them and then open them and it just doesn't work well with a gauge. But I am slowly building out my forms.

Hah not quite, more like hack of all trades, master of none

Did a glaze firing over the weekend, here's some of the doggie bowls and a few of the more interesting mugs. Loving my new digital controller.

Had a dream last night that there was some kind of potluck or something and I was eating off of one of your wamo mamo plates. So weird.

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Ahh, yeah that's the stock yellow sponge, it was also very soft when I attached the handles, gonna clean them both up once they're not quite so floppy. I will try using a cut up grout sponge, thanks for the tip

The yellow sponge I use? Or the one I keep in my hand? I use a piece of foam from a box of cones for my hand one and the standard yellow Hydra ones for mopping out and cleaning the surface. I have a bunch of grout sponges but they seem the same as the yellow ones. I do have some really fine makeup sponges, but they stick like crazy to the clay, I only use them when smoothing after attaching handles or whatnot. Speaking of handles, I attached some to the other vase I threw. Still three handles but smaller and in a different style. They're still really soft so I'm gonna have to clean them up when I get home from work tonight.

Yeah I go back and forth, bad habits! Sometimes for those first pulls with the super hard clay I have to use my right hand inside to pull it up off the bottom. I'm a bit sad, I am out of my hard reclaim now, gotta go pour out some more on to the ole plaster slabs.

That's neat! I never would have thought. It's actually surprisingly light weight, but full of water this thing would be a monster! Here's a video of me throwing a similar one, just a few lbs smaller, last night. Different angle, less pajama.

Heh, that would hold a lot of gravy! Messy pour too, but come Thanksgiving you'll wish you had one. Wish we could post gifs or imbed clips, I took a better video of it rotating. Here's an external link: https://imgur.com/gallery/vBBBCuV

Just a vase, the handles are just for looks, look how wide they are, that would be uncomfortable to hold by them. I'm hoping that either this one or the similar one I threw last night will make it through the process of firing and whatnot so that I can give one to my neighbor that is moving away as a housewarming gift.

Put handles on it! Three of em

So what does a wholesale flower pot go for? That looks like a lot of fun!