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Re: ClayCraft 5th firing of sasukenei kiln

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:47:40 UT

Looks like a great firing Jesse! Can you point us to photos of the
kiln? What kind of wood did you use?

Thanks,
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Lee Love in Minneapolis
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5th firing of sasukenei kiln

stess...@hotmail.com (Jesse) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:37:45 UT

I'd like to share some of the results of my latest firing. Loading
strategy was a little different than my last firing, a result of
having more small pieces. Also, I had more help with the load and
firing, which I'd done largely by myself up to now. I guess I'm
confident enough to risk others' work now. We fired for 38 hrs to

Re: ClayCraft What is Bizen

craigledwa...@gmail.com (CRAIG) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:13:30 UT

Thanks Paul: I'll give that clay a spin... you asked about the insulated
floor. I must agree that it was worth the work. A bonus that I hadn't
counted on was the hugh reduction of smoke!! In times past when the kiln
would be belching smoke... it was completely smokeless!!!
Make Good Pots
~Craig

Re: ClayCraft My Late Uncle Gave Me This Bizen Tokuri

craigledwa...@gmail.com (CRAIG) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:08:11 UT

Thanks Lee for the pics... it gives a really good reference point... Tasty
pots!!
Make Good Pots
~Craig
New London MN
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Re: ClayCraft Bizen clay

craigledwa...@gmail.com (CRAIG) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:05:53 UT

Lee; Louis, and Jesse: thanks for the recipes it gives me a really good
starting point... I'm still trying for another firing before winter. So new
clays maybe in the spring firing.
Make Good Pots
~Craig
New London MN
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kansaspot...@gmail.com (Eric Hansen) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:05:20 UT

Lee: This job takes 2 people. A really cheap tester like $4 just for
"hot" or "not" is needed - try it on various wires including the one
in question - if it IS hot - start shutting off breakers until you
shut the one off that kills the garage wire in question. Not that it
is NOT hot you can cut a sample of the wire for identification

Re: ClayCraft Faux galena glaze

neon...@flash.net (Neon-Cat) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:44:14 UT

Nice to know, Des.
I must have forgotten I'm OK over here on claycraft with non-standards.

Marian

Re: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

djhow...@hwy.com.au (Des & Jan Howard) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:39:29 UT

Marian
In Oz as well. Snow-white potash feldspar used for
toothpaste, pyrophyllite used as military footpowder,
local plastic kaolin in digestives & anti-diarrhoeals.
Des

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Des & Jan Howard
Lue Pottery
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Australia
2850

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Re: ClayCraft Faux galena glaze

djhow...@hwy.com.au (Des & Jan Howard) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:31:32 UT

Marian
Thanks for the concern re standard limits.
As the glazes posted will have to be made using my
own available materials things will change anyway.
Also I never fuss about standard limits. My shinos,
for example, aren't even in the same house,
let alone the same room as "standards" allow.

RE: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

randall.mo...@gmail.com (Randall Moody) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:19:38 UT

Holy Smokes! Look at all of the Georgia listings! I need to get out more!

Randall in Atlanta

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Looking for kaolin?
try here:
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There is lots of innaccuracy, but its a great resource.

Re: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

neon...@flash.net (Neon-Cat) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:12:58 UT

I just got a book on American stoneware potteries, will pay more attention to source materials, your state is mentioned a lot. Lee, what was with all the pigs every big pottery across the US seemed to make? Just little pigs amid their functional ware -- not even as piggy banks.

Marian

Re: ClayCraft Faux galena glaze

neon...@flash.net (Neon-Cat) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:05:32 UT

Des, I was thinking about the ambers after posting last night (I left school studios here not long after that experience) -- I never did run calculations on the glaze I tinkered with to see if it was within standard limits. As I recall I was more intrigued with the streaky matt opaques that resulted from the yellow iron oxide substitutions for yellow ochre that gave 'clear' and glossy ambers. That's still an interesting question -- at the time there were too many variables, from application of glazes to source materials to firing conditions, so I stalled thinking about that...

Re: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:54:27 UT

I just remembered that Redwing Pottery was using the indigenous kaolin
and just wrote them to find the producer. The clay body I was
testing for Minnesota Clay reminded me of the Bizen clay I have used.
Very high iron content.

Lee

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Re: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

neon...@flash.net (Neon-Cat) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:45:58 UT

Why not call and ask them for a sample and chat them up about the business and its history? People will share surprising amounts of info if they have an interested person asking.
So many of the resources down here in Texas, including those we'd have a field day with, are used for odd things, road or construction fill, have been abandoned, or just never got developed due to environmental regulations and other economic reasons.

Re: ClayCraft http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:38:10 UT

Only two listed in Minnesota there. I am familiar with the brick
clay pit, but thought it was red brick clay. The kaolin I am looking
for was sold right in town.

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Lee Love in Minneapolis
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Re: ClayCraft My Late Uncle Gave Me This Bizen Tokuri

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Re: ClayCraft Faux galena glaze

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Re: ClayCraft Faux galena glaze

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