Hi all, When I was first setting up this kiln I got a lot of great advice from this group. I've been set up for a few months now and have completed 2 firing cycles (bisque/glaze) however, I still qualify as a complete newbie! The kiln is an electric cylindrical kiln, 7 cu. ft. I have some...

Hi everyone! I've been reading the post for some time and I have a question too. Has anyone ever made anything with copper inlay? How exactly would copper act in cone 6 glaze firing? I would greatly appreciate your advice or even a reference to where I can find more information on a...

I was recently given an older Paragon electric kiln, meant for china painting (so it's not huge... about 18" across and deep) -- during transport, the refractory material in the bottom cracked, apparently along brick-shaped lines. The top looks like it would be moderately easy to reline, but I'm...

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find local clay banks? How to test the clay found ? Any suggestions? Comments? Thank You, David Smith

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Hi All, Speaking of raku, does anyone know where ferric chloride can be obtained? I'm getting ready to get my own raku kiln and I like the brown highlights spraying ferric chloride on horse hair pots gives. I looked in all my pottery supply catalogues and can't find it. I was rakuing at friends...

Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do. Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region. http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about...

Hi, I have been part of this group (of and on) for the last five years.(I was very quiet lately as we had lot's of problems with email). Anyway, as I was putting together an CD intro for my Clay Feet exhibiting group it occurred to me that you guys might be interested in seeing it. It is only...

Well I unloaded the kiln and was amazed how many pots came out with such few flaws. One poor little pot was glazed and reglazed so many times that I was never planning on firing it, just playing with techique. It got stuck in just on principle and came out one of the better pots. The pots...

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Hi folks Hubby is giving me new challenges. This time, he has asked me to make a röhmertopf. I have started, but now I am having misgivings. The clay I use is a high-fire clay that can be fired to 1350 C. But I know that it has to be low-fired (1000 C), in order to be able to absorb some of the...

Hi, I would like to make a very simple pyrometer for raku work. I know that most people do not regard this as necessary but I would like to include temperature as one of the many things I look at when playing around :-) Can someone point me to a link/instructions on how to construction a simple...

Hi All, Was wondering if anyone has seen a tiny wood fired kiln, cone 10 or so. Also wondering if there is such a thing as *too small a wood fired kiln, as in, would the, say, physics of the firing process (air, firbox, flue, chimney, flame flow, etc...) breakdown at some point? Or another way of...

Does anyone have any information (or can point me to a link) for a Skutt 231X kiln? I'm trying to decide whether or not to buy one. I've googled and can't find any info on this model, so I'm assuming it's not in production any more. The person selling it says it's a never-been-fired kiln, but I...

Hello to all, In the city where I live, I have been trying to find someone to teach pottery. However, I have been unsuccessful. The local university teaches pottery, but requires all sorts of prerequisites to take the course. And, I don't want to work towards an art degree just to take a pottery...

I was thinking about starting to make my own Christmas town houses. So far my idea is to press some tiles in the shape of walls and roofs and bonding them together. This is (IMO) better than attempting to make a multipart mold and slip casting it. But since I don't know the pro's and con's of...

I am interested in the techniques used to put grains of rice into the walls of porcelain bowls. Are the bowls thrown or slip cast? At which stage of the procedure is the rice inserted? Must the wall be as thin as the rice is thick so that it is exposed on both sides?

My week started off normal... made my clay order from one of my two usual suppliers but chose to order 1000 pounds from great lakes clay co. They say they can get you a freight order in 3 days and make special arrangements so it doesn't show up frozen(problem in north midwest winter) SO ANYWAY...

After a pit firing attempt about this time last year which drew many informative and helpful comments from the group, I think I am ready to go to the next step. I am planning to build the kiln shown on this web-page which I found by...