Slip Glaze with local rock, kiln shelf wash, and a few more pots

[gary navarre]

Hay Crew,

A while back (4 years ago) I was in the old Hayes gravel pit scraping up crushed stone for the foundation of my kiln and came upon a pile of decomposed iron red rock that was mostly dust so I saved it for when I started glazing later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6yoO7h9yHc

Another in some shorts showing grinding a spot with a chunk of brick and some brushing on kiln wash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHYkLQWyrac

The throwing still is coming along but it seems I'm a lot slower than I usta be, maybe it just seems that way because this kiln needs twice and a half as many pots as the first Hobagama...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/ (starting at #89 near the bottom of the page)

or...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/cuttingmasonitebatts.html (and click the photo to next)

I think I might have discovered a materials mixup when I found a whole bucket of blond EPK I had stashed and forgot about. I think I took my kiln wash and some glaze EPK from a sack that had been mixed with fireclay and kyaite/mullite for lag but I read the bag and thought it was the clean EPK, although I felt it was looking different. I wonder what effect the fireclay will have on the kiln wash in the back half of the load if the alumina hydrate was increased. My guess is the mix has 25% or less of fireclay so it could be refractory enough to stand ^10 in the tail. Can't think which glazes I used it in but we will know when I fire eh? Oh well, guess I'll just have to leave it for now and make new wash for the front of the load and make new glazes with the clean EPK.

Later so stay in there eh!

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

[John Boyd]

Gary,
          Fire that thing will ya, eh?  I'm dying from suspense.
JB

[gary navarre]

Sorry JB, I never thought my procrastination would end someones life, and you're not even an enemy. I'm thinking I need some speed to keep me concentrating on throwing pots... I bet if I look around Norway for a kid that looks real calm I could get him to trade me some of his Ritalin if I get them some beer...

This morning when I woke up though the first thoughts I was having was seeing myself out by the wood pile splitting up the slab wood I'd gotten cut to length so after a couple a cups-a and a couple bowls-a I ended up there and intuitively solved a problem that had been baffling me all summer so I set up and started splitting. Then I decided to shot it with the camera set on 22 second intervals for a Fotki slideshow. I think tomorrow I'll start putting in an hour or so a day finishing up splitting the rest. Because of the grain some pieces break off shorter but most split fairly evenly end to end. The pieces that are fat on one end I can use in the pignose...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/gf/ssw/

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, John Boyd <burningcof...@gmail.com> wrote: