Hi, I'm new to this group and enjoyed reading some of the past posts. I have been doing stoneware pottery in an electric kiln for about 5 years now. My husband cooks down maple syrup on a woodfired cooker and he has recently rebuilt it and lined it with fire brick so that we can try firing some...

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Hello all, My aunt is giving me her old Kiln and I don't know the model but here are the specs she gave me...10 cu ft. The directions recommend a 60amp breaker, she has it tied into her box on a 70amp breaker and the box still heats up. She called the manufacturer and they recommend an 80 amp...

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After browsing or reading about couple of dozen books on pottery, I took my first class just yesterday. This early on it is very aparent to me that the glazing on a piece of formed clay can make or brake it, ultimately. I have browsed and/or read several books on pottery and some specifically on...

Does anyone know where I can find this plaster mushroom house? Here is the photo, very cute: http://www.statuaryplace.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20

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Thank you to everyone, for your excellent advice on moulds.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAM.

HI all, I wonder if anyone knows how to achieve the effect of colour flashing on a stoneware oxidised glaze. There is a perfect example on e-bay of brown glaze with orange flashing. The item number on e-bay is 7388556867. This is a gloss brown glaze on grogged stoneware (oxidised firing). I...

A friend of mine inherited a huge cache of plaster molds from an aunt who was much into casting all kinds of doo-dahs in them, then firing them and glazing them. He also inherited an automatic electric kiln (the one I use occasionally) along with them. He is not into ceramics at all, and has...

Thanks to some great advice from this newsgroup -- and to a touch of blind luck -- my bisque firing succeeded! We opened th kiln yesterday afternoon. I had a dozen or so items appx 16" tall plus many (warped) test tiles (made before I learned on this NG how to keep them flat). Miraculously,...

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Banchawan are shorter tea cups used to drink bancha tea from. Jomon, blue zogan inlay, tetsu/iron leaf decoration: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7745925150 -- Lee Love in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org

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Hi everyone, and Happy New Year!!! I have been off the computer since before Christmas (it was sitting on the dining room table!), and am glad to be back! My problem is this: I make globe-shapes that I fashion into "something" (eg. an onion) and then cut around the top to separate the bottom and...

What's the best way to dry greenware? I've been storing it wrapped loosely with thin plastic sheeting but it takes weeks to dry this way. Is there a faster (safe) way? Thanks, Fred

Now I finally have enough to fill a kiln for a bisq firing as soon as everything is dry. It will be my second attempt. The first time (sad to have to admit) I thought cone 06 was the kiln controller's way of displaying cone 6, and I didn't understand I was supposed to bisq fire before the actual...

Hi, I'm new to this group and enjoyed reading some of the past posts. I have been doing stoneware pottery in an electric kiln for about 5 years now. My husband cooks down maple syrup on a woodfired cooker and he has recently rebuilt it lines with fire brick so that we can try firing some pottery...

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help with a 'not so sticky' problem I've recently encountered: I've used ash glazes a few times in the past and decided to have another go at them as I now have access to a higher firing kiln than my own small (cone six) kiln. I've started with a very simple fifty...

Hi all! Been away for a while, but now I am back! I got a kiln for my birthday - just a little, used one, but it works a treat! I make these round little things http://ceramics.nsen.ch/slides/20060101-j-12.html http://ceramics.nsen.ch/slides/20060101-j-13.html and am having trouble with the...