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Let's see, these are the things that I hear about the most: There's too many pots in the house Too many orange buckets outside Driveway is full of clay Tracking clay in the house Can't have the windows to the carport open when firing When are you gonna sell all these things? For the most part I try to do everything once the kids and wife to go sleep, that gives me 4 hours of solid me time either in the shed making pots, or editing videos, designing, silk screening, etc etc etc. But since they're asleep, they don't ever complain about the time I spend out there... Unless it's the weekend lol, because I try to be out there every weekend all weekend.

Would make your job a lot easier

I tap center and use chucks, but not because I view the giffin grip as a crutch, just because they're so expensive! Holy cow! Chucks and lugs are free and haven't set me back any. For bowls and plates I use a foam bat and id be willing to bet it's faster than using a giffin grip, just because I set a bowl on, tap tap trim, no lugs, no problem. If I come across a good deal on a giffin I'll grab it, seems handy for decorating as well. If you feel yours is defective I'd give them a call and see if they can help you out.

Here's a chart with both:

We were only allowed to buy clay from the school as students. The TAs or studio assistants as they liked to be called, were allowed a lot of latitude in what they wanted to do. After they switched everything to cone 10 it made recycling clay a lot simpler too, everything was just tossed into a single bin and what came out was the "free" clay. A mixture of stoneware and porcelain all plugged together was all I could afford at the time lol.

In school we had three different firings, 5 kilns. We had lowfire/bisque, cone 6, and cone 10. The lowfire and cone 6 were always done in big top loaders, and the cone 10 stuff was saved for the big walk-in gas kiln outside. Students would put their work to be fired on big rolling shelves clearly labeled with the firing temp, well one of the TAs grabbed two carts of porcelain and loaded them in the gas kiln, grabbed the stoneware and loaded it, and after the professor checked, gave it the go ahead to start the firing. Well one of the porcelain carts was not porcelain, it was a bunch of another TAs lowfire slipware. They had to replace sections of the floor, and after that, no more lowfire clay, and all clays had to be purchased from the school. I talked to a person who is currently going there and it sounds like they're down to two clays, cone 10 stoneware or cone 10 porcelain, and use a cone 10 stoneware for raku. But now they also do 2 wood firings a year, which I'm very jealous of. It wasn't the person loading being silly though, it was the other TA who was pretty much trying to run a business out of the school studio. He got in trouble for making sinks and selling them as well.

Ask them to order you some

Oh those will work much better because I actually need to be able to cut with the tip

Wow that's interesting! I've never paid a fee to enter a show, we have a few big ones that charge an entrance fee, and those booths are multiple thousands per weekend, I've never even pondered applying to one. I had a neighbor who did woodworking and iron, and he did two years of a big one (home and garden show here in Seattle) and he said never again. I don't mind paying a jury fee, yeah it's kind of a cheap shot to artists, but I understand someone has to sift through all of it. Just silly that they juried you in this year, so obviously you made the cut in some way, why not shoe you in for next year?? Since I have to apply for next year's show again, I'll be out basically 150 dollars between application and jury fees.

It wasn't the full booth fee, but let's face it, the online market of a tulip festival is going to bring in a couple of pity buys from the organizers and no one else is gonna show up to buy. Established folks likely have an online presence, and those who don't, good luck in marketing your festival online.

I could have applied my fee to next year's show and kept my spot, but I'm not confident that they'll be around next year after losing out this year, which is why I requested a refund. So far correspondence has been 2+ weeks with them so I'm not expecting a check until summer

Yeah? Every show I've applied to has been juried, maybe it's different on the east coast? I mean it makes sense, they can't just let everyone in, right? Maybe it's just a quick "oh yeah that looks like he made it, and it is what he says it is", I don't know the specifics

Sorry, I meant if you don't participate in their online market, you forefeit your application and jury fee, so you will have to reapply for next year's show. Their original plan was to just shoe you in for next year if you wanted. Application and jury fee was not cheap though, so a little sad about that.

I finally was able to request a refund on my tulip festival booth fee. They offered a spot on their "virtual market" without any description of what that would be, and if you refused to spend your money on that, you don't qualify for next year's show. So whatever, money in the pocket now is worth much more than possible sales at next year's tulip festival.

Here might be a place to start. Magnesium mattes with some calcium and cobalt can go pretty vivid indigo without having to get toxic. https://glazy.org/recipes/16778

It also says copper carbonate, I'm guessing to make barium copper silicate or "han blue"? Copper and barium that recipe would be very sensitive to any acid attack, probably straight tap water even

Beating the crap out of my hand (and my wire cutters) trying to cut this 12ga steel. Need to get a pair with more leverage! Love my knipex piano wire cutters but they're not designed for this thick stuff

I bend wires for work, albeit much different wire for much different purpose. I recorded a video of me doing it on another jug, should be able to edit it in the next few days and get it up.

Same. I've been laid off since March 20th and have been in lockdown since the week before that. I am an essential worker by law, but apparently not essential enough to actually have work to do. Been a lot of fun here in the land of schooling two kids for 7 hours a day. Pretty sure i could never cut it as a teacher now, drives me totally nuts. On top of that my wife thinks this is a great time to remodel everything in the house, and fishing and camping are CLOSED. Sooooooo, it's a lot like hell here in Seattle

Wasn't too bad, took me about 20 minutes to bend. Direct from China the cheapest wiretop enclosures like this were 10 dollars a piece. And then, of course, I would have had to throw them exactly to their specs minus 12.5%

Wow lucky, we are still food-only at the markets here. Not even flowers which is completely bizarre.

Ok, here's my custom swingtop lid on the growler. Wasn't too bad! I'm using a silicone gasket, it's a little stiff, but it holds water, is very nice and tight with a good solid click when its locked. Basically a miniature jam jar setup. I didn't want the typical grolsch style cap, it comes with too many design restrictions. So I'm glad this came out well.

Haha! We lived in a small airstream borrowed from my grandparents for a few years growing up, and I ended up buying a manufactured home and land when I became an adult. It's a lot more fun when you embrace it

Yeah mine went bonkers last year and I actually had to cut them back a bit because they were sharing my baby fig tree

Our garden is on year 2, and we got even less than last year, lasst year we had 3 super skinny stalks, this year it's one super skinny stalk that's about a foot and a half tall. Not sure if I'm supposed to cut them when they come up this young or just let them fern out, but it sure gets bizarre if you leave them alone