Mark C. Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 After a 10-hour glaze day yesterday I reminded me of what makes me want a shower the most. Throwing pots Making clay Making glaze Cleaning the studio Or glazing wares For me its glaze day-that’s when I get the most love for a shower. Ps wood firing is another level for sure Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 after Raku for me. Have to get the smell out of my hair. But glazing is up there. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilestrick Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 In my current situation, glazing is definitely tops on the shower list. In the past it was clay mixing, especially when I was working for a clay supplier and would have to jump on the line when one of my guys was out sick. Nothing like mixing 12,000 pounds by yourself in one day to get good and grimy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Cleaning the sink traps! best, .................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakukuku Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Post raku clean up is the worst. Bits of ash everywhere no matter how careful i am and emptying out well used trash cans covered with creosote. Once I did raku using old credit card statements that needed to be destroyed. boy did that paper stink. once we used dried alfalfa as a combustable and got accused of dope smoking. rakuku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 I'm with John. Cleaning the clay traps has got to be the worst! TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 I feel the gritty on the days I either make or spray glaze. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantay Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Glazing is at the top of the list of least enjoyable part of the process. It takes a lot of skill to get your pots glazed with no runs, globs, finger marks, dripped wax, .... Oh lets not forget the splashing when the whole pot is dropped in the glaze bucket. I have figured out to always use the heavy Iron receipes last. Iron oxide apparently stains everything. I would be happy if I could just sit and throw and trim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted April 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 Iron does indeed stain-I wear glaze cloths on glaze days (especially tee shirts with stains)-my socks get red stains as well.I like to glaze still but it gets old after about 8 hours. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Not the dirtiest---just the most disliked = yuk = "dirty" (bleh ) = wedging (hate it). j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Dean Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Processing wood ash for use in ash glazes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Glazing for me, wear the old ragged jeans and long sleeved shirt in Winter, short sleeve in Summer. Sink traps I never had to clean out, the janitors did it. They even put the residue in a bucket for me so that I could use in some "mystery glaze" tests. We usually had to clean once a month, but they insisted on doing it so I let them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 ive never done it but would regret...... 1. cleaning sink trap. i am now designing disposable version 2. cleaning flood after drains back up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 Glazing for me, wear the old ragged jeans and long sleeved shirt in Winter, short sleeve in Summer. Sink traps I never had to clean out, the janitors did it. They even put the residue in a bucket for me so that I could use in some "mystery glaze" tests. We usually had to clean once a month, but they insisted on doing it so I let them. I often wondered if you could use that "sink trap" product for a glaze.It's just so darn smelly though. Mostly clay, I would think. I was looking at my mop pail water and thinking that it would make a glaze. I don't need any more slop/scrap glazes. TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 we used a sink trap glaze in college. I am avoiding my sink trap cleaning but can only avoid so long. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantay Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I live in a rental. No sink trap. I use a multi bucket system. I don't think I would ever put one in knowing I would have to clean. I have my son clean the tub drain, yucky. To keep the smell down I pour a few drops of bleach once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perkolator Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 Cleaning sink trap has got to be #1 only based on the smell. A very close contender is making a batch of clay with a super-smelly reclaim barrel which smells as bad as a sink trap, because it's full of dead skin cells, newspaper bits, etc and has been sitting in the sun for a few weeks....and you're putting your bare hands in it...and your head goes into or very close to the trash can because you're reaching to the bottom...at least with the sink trap you can use a wet-vac and cover your nose with the free-hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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