Hello Everyone, I've washed my woodstove ashes 3 times, sieved them and tied a piece of cloth over a bucket and dumped the ashes on the cloth and let them suspend over the bucket a few days but now I think I need to lay them out flat and break up the clumps but I don't know what to put them on that...

HI all, I'm in the process of moving my studio some 300 miles, from my home in the Midlands UK to a harbourside village in South Cornwall. Lease contracts got signed yesterday and we aquire the premises on Saturday. There is a lot of work to be done, before we can open to the public, we are...

Hello, I invite everybody to type "heat retentive plates" in Google to learn about a ceramic microwaveable heat retentive plate that you preheat for just one minute, and stays HOT FOR 1/2 HOUR and the rim remains cool for easy handling. Regards. Juan

is wayneinkeywest still there? i suspose it might not have been a good night to try a wood fire with huricane charlie passing by... i hope all's ok over there... maybe this was a good day to collect some seaweed & driftwood though for that beach pit firing.

this is a fun thing that i would love to start in my home. i am taking my second series of classes, but in the future if i want to get a wheel and kiln, where would i get this stuff from. i am not opening a business or anything, just for fun. or is it best just to join open studio somewhere. i am...

Hi Everyone, I want to throw a 2 piece bird bath. I have no trouble with the tall pedestal but the wide low bowl part is giving me a problem. The sides start to sag when I pull it out so far. There must be a secret trick to it. If anyone knows how to throw a wide (maybe 15 inches) low (maybe 3...

Hi, Here is a link to the updated website of Janice James, the raku ceramic artist. http://www.janicejamesceramics.com Any suggestions/comments would be very much appreciated. Regards

Attended a ceramics class and of course, as we were pit firing it rained and doused the fire. The results were not pretty! I'm now back home and only can electric fire. Can I add low fire glaze to the bowls and re-fire them ?

Anyone have any good ideas of places to get cheap bricks, perhaps seconds from a factory or the like. Want enough for an outdoor gas kiln of about 1 cu m. Plan to SW fire. Any advice / ideas much appreciated. Based in Buckingham, Paul f

Any suggestions for removing baked in glaze from shelves. LMac

Is there a recipe that anyone is willing to share for a ^4-6 clear gloss glaze?

Hi Anybody I'm trying to source red clays that will fire to 1270/1280 that are accessible within a reasonable distance from London. Found 'keupers red' but need to go a little higher for my glazes and porosity considerations. thanks pete

I've had no problem painting acrylic paint on pieces from bisque (06) all the way to cone 10. If it is stoneware, it should stick just fine. Diego "no spam here, thanks" wrote in message ... I'm arranging a sort of 'pottery...

Actually I have several somewhat related questions 1. I have some pieces that I used wax resist on for decoration. A couple of them I'm not pleased with after coming out of the glost fire. Can I glaze the unglazed parts and refire the pieces? 2. There was a question a week or so ago regarding...

My local brickyard has bags of something called "Fire clay" which they instruct me to mix with portland cement to make a fire brick. I suspect that this is wrong (or useful only for fireplaces). My intuition tells me that I should form it into my shape (I have a special shape in mind) and then...

Does anyone know of the ceramic artist from the turn of the century or late 1800's with the wild beard. I htought that his name is George Orr. Any help would be great.

Can anyone tell me if there is a technique to all-over glaze a pottery ladle or spoon without it sticking to the kiln shelf. Are kiln stilts needed? Yours quizzingly, JM

I've been thinking about buying some plain white, glazed ceramic wall tiles and then applying decals on them, and firing the decals. Has anyone tried this? I think it would work since decals are only fired to somewhere around ^018 (not sure, have to look it up again). Marianne

Link to Gettysburg photos showing the Gettysburg battlefield before superintendent John Latschar's ego ran amok and ruined it. http://users.snip.net/~hart/ We loved Gettysburg: married there, took dozens of week-long trips, spent many thousands of dollars there, and even considered moving there....

My old ones fell off and were eaten by ball-eating scorpions. Now I need new ones.How to craft them ?