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Sorcery

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  1. I think it's counter productive to think looking at pots is counter productive. That's the mindset I stay in. Sorce
  2. Wire type matters too. Something braided or like the Mudtools Squiggly wire will create a better gap to lift off. A thin smooth wire will just keep it stuck. Sorce
  3. Sweep and ....... You ever hear the Bill Burr when he uses that voice and says, "oh, it's pesto"... That's the voice I hear taking about wood ash, "it's caustic, it's caustic". I don't even like that word! Sorce
  4. I had a Potter Friend pass this year. 102 and used to drill through asbestos kiln lids. Fear Nothing! Sorce
  5. FYI.... You may get more recycling the metals and just selling the shell. Sorce
  6. I'd stick em at best offer and take one! I found a used one I offered dude a hundo for, watched it go down and down in price till he sold it for less than what I offered. Everything on OfferUp still after 2 years, is what NOT to price things at! Sorce
  7. Whatevs! That's fantastic! My spot is kinda generic, more old ignorant littering than history. That stuff looks old old. Sorce
  8. Somewhere near The Brookfield Zoo! What do you find? Sorce
  9. What do you find? Here's some of my stash! Some from Germany, England, and Japan too! Sorce
  10. Depends on how you want them displayed I guess. You can melt their glaze to stick, or melt something lower temp on your clay and stick them with that. I'd love to see the shards juuuuust melted, that would be dope. I find some old Buffalo Pottery from 1912 in a campsite by my River. Sorce
  11. It might take a change of motor, but you can probably hook up a frequency drive for speed adjustment. Sorce
  12. Hey @liambesawdon't know why I read that oval kiln post this go round...but...I would consider Rectangle shelves and utilizing the empty space of the oval for tall things like that birdbath stem. I got a 27inch tall space right next to my upward burner, stuck a 16in vase there the other day, came out like 4 tone, fading up in melt. Really dope. @Mark C. There won't be any "filling the shop" with these! Lol! They call big Bonsai trees 2 man or 4 hand trees, I call this "Four Hand Barbie". Sorce
  13. That's what I was thinking, specifically, what material the cut edges go onto, and when was the last time it was cleaned? I found nothing drys clay faster than dry clay. Sorce
  14. Yes, the air can still escape, but it has already caused the piece to not attach properly. Then with just the edges attached, normal shrink makes it pop. Sorce
  15. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, since I don't throw, only hand build, but realize the same shortness throwers experience with reclaim, and blame on a lack of fines due to throwing wet taking off fines. How can I experience the same shortness? That theory is falling off for me, and adds to my belief that it is microsopics alone. Bacterias and Fungi. Even exposed to the air for a short while, or x amount of time in a bag then exposed to chlorinated water, can be what kills/changes them. Time changes everything, including the numbers of these microgrowths. The population of good bacteria in the clay could have reached a critical point where it all dies again, or becomes so numerous that it has the opposite effect. There is a good balance to everything! I am a believer then, in the aging game. Get that stank back. The Good Book says clay is good when it smells like the bowels of the Earth. When my reclaim smells like this, it is never short. I keep it funky in wet towels in a closed cooler. Perhaps their production should account for these times, and allow for a longer wet storage of this clay before use. Let time work. I reckon of you start adding concoctions, like is usually suggested, tiles won't be the same, and time may work against you. Sorce
  16. I would be slightly worried about them falling off with glaze in a glaze fire. Sorce
  17. I'm anti slip. Just score and water droplets from a needle bottle. Your skip could be the culprit if it's different. I believe slip in a jar can become so bacterially different, it could effect the drying rates. Especially taking into account @liambesawnotes of Fungi gathering metals and minerals, it's what they do. This picture shows best the smooth parts that were attached well. If you concave the attachments slightly, so the center is first to contact, you will never trap air, or begin at one side and roll it out the other side. If you're a criminal, like they do fingerprints! Sorce
  18. I am with this one... Especially if you were trying to line up edges well, it makes you seal up the edges first, trapping the air. Then, unless you push so hard you break the seal, it'll feel good and attached no matter how hard you push. What does the scored side of that fish shaped piece look like? Those score lines shouldn't be visible at all, that clay should be homogeneous. It had to be air, or just not enough "scoochy scoochy". (That's a technical term I love as learned from a HS teacher on YouTube!) Then Shrink either drying or firing, made them break off. If attached well, you may have still seen cracks where it cracked. Ar other attachments still on and cracked? Sorce
  19. You could send me down to the river and I wouldn't even need the van! Find a spot where the erosion already carved out most of a kiln in the bank, supreme to find an old dead hollow tree in the back to dig through as a chimney. Light a fire, dig the clay right there, paddle em up, and toss em in! Sorce
  20. Hell yeah! Save them boxes and packing! Sorce
  21. My first thought was, anything you can't find in the woods is "technology". However, a depression in the earth to turn a round pot and an anvil and paddle were once new technology. So I believe a "History of Pottery Tech" would be more wholly encompassing and easier to.... Not argue about? Lol! Sorce
  22. You should remain close enough to it for the first firings to not have to just "test" it. The worst that could happen is you reach some bisquish temps which will be a much more efficient use of your time and energy than firing an empty kiln. Plus working once doesn't necessarily mean working twice. Fiddle with how to "reset" it when it falls, which you usually have to do to properly melt your witness cones and reach actual temps. Hot or cold, you'll want to be there to know where your witness cones are at when the sitter falls. Usually a 6 in the sitter means a 5 in the kiln. But this can vary greatly. Here's to 0 mistakes! Sorce
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