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Biggest blunders?
Hi guys!
You are being so quiet these days and I love to read from you - so starting a topic I am pretty sure most of you will have input to! What have been your biggest blunders? Either technical or practical - I don't care - I just want to know what big mistakes you have made (potterywise) and what you learned from them :-) Mine up to now HAS to be making an oven dish with folded over handles, and the handles made the dish too wide to go in the oven! Next dish is gonna have handles straight up from the ends! Marianne |
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Mine was having a blackboard with chalk in my workshop to make notes
about orders while we still had very young children. They had a chalk fight while I was in a different part of the building, and a lot of chalk wound up in the reclaim bin, which was open, and was pugged in with the new batch of clay. I found out about it when bits started blowing out of the sides, bottoms, etc. of my pots. I had to bury half a ton (500Kgs) of contaminated clay and start again. This was at a time when we hadn't long been in business so money was short. Needless to say blackboards, chalk, AND plaster are not allowed within 500 feet of my workshop under any pretext what-so-ever! Steve Paranoid, in Bath UK In article , Bubbles writes Hi guys! You are being so quiet these days and I love to read from you - so starting a topic I am pretty sure most of you will have input to! What have been your biggest blunders? Either technical or practical - I don't care - I just want to know what big mistakes you have made (potterywise) and what you learned from them :-) Mine up to now HAS to be making an oven dish with folded over handles, and the handles made the dish too wide to go in the oven! Next dish is gonna have handles straight up from the ends! Marianne -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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"Steve Mills" wrote in message ... Mine was having a blackboard with chalk in my workshop to make notes about orders while we still had very young children. They had a chalk fight while I was in a different part of the building, and a lot of chalk wound up in the reclaim bin, which was open, and was pugged in with the new batch of clay. I found out about it when bits started blowing out of the sides, bottoms, etc. of my pots. I had to bury half a ton (500Kgs) of contaminated clay and start again. This was at a time when we hadn't long been in business so money was short. Needless to say blackboards, chalk, AND plaster are not allowed within 500 feet of my workshop under any pretext what-so-ever! Steve Paranoid, in Bath UK Oh my gosh!!! I can't think of any thing like that. I made all the normal mistakes of the beginner like lifting a dry green bowl by the rim (left holding rim only) making HEAVY pots. One time I made a composite pot, very complicated, upside down bowl, figures holding up another bowl, then underglazed it, had dreams of a masterpiece ) Then lifting it into the kiln bumped into the kiln shelf and the whole thing slowly fell apart in my hands. I jumped up and down on it. Oh well just wonder what my next big mistake will be. Annemarie |
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While cleaning up the community studio, someone put a small bisqued pot into
the pug mill. Oops. We had to throw about 800lbs of recycled clay and recovered about 30 dime sized pieces of bisquware. We reconstructed the small pot as best we could and put it on display as a warning of what not to do... "annemarie" wrote in message ... "Steve Mills" wrote in message ... Mine was having a blackboard with chalk in my workshop to make notes about orders while we still had very young children. They had a chalk fight while I was in a different part of the building, and a lot of chalk wound up in the reclaim bin, which was open, and was pugged in with the new batch of clay. I found out about it when bits started blowing out of the sides, bottoms, etc. of my pots. I had to bury half a ton (500Kgs) of contaminated clay and start again. This was at a time when we hadn't long been in business so money was short. Needless to say blackboards, chalk, AND plaster are not allowed within 500 feet of my workshop under any pretext what-so-ever! Steve Paranoid, in Bath UK Oh my gosh!!! I can't think of any thing like that. I made all the normal mistakes of the beginner like lifting a dry green bowl by the rim (left holding rim only) making HEAVY pots. One time I made a composite pot, very complicated, upside down bowl, figures holding up another bowl, then underglazed it, had dreams of a masterpiece ) Then lifting it into the kiln bumped into the kiln shelf and the whole thing slowly fell apart in my hands. I jumped up and down on it. Oh well just wonder what my next big mistake will be. Annemarie |
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it has to be adding granite rocks to the kiln load to fill up all the open
areas for a glaze fire. you know how well a full kiln fires and all. i ran out of pieces, and kiln posts. rocks don't melt, right? .....they melt..... see ya steve Subject: Biggest blunders? From: "Bubbles" Date: 9/8/2004 12:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: Hi guys! You are being so quiet these days and I love to read from you - so starting a topic I am pretty sure most of you will have input to! What have been your biggest blunders? Either technical or practical - I don't care - I just want to know what big mistakes you have made (potterywise) and what you learned from them :-) Mine up to now HAS to be making an oven dish with folded over handles, and the handles made the dish too wide to go in the oven! Next dish is gonna have handles straight up from the ends! Marianne steve graber |
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Two stories
1. I had packed my glaze kiln and put the top shelf in place however I had not measured very well and the post wasn't quite as tall as one of the pots I put in...which I didn't figure out until I unloaded and the top of the pot was glazed to the underside of the shelf. Lesson: Make sure the posts are tall enough for the pots. 2. I had already started a bisque fire and the kiln had been on for at least two hours, I just wanted to add that last pot I had made. The pot was rather dry, certainly not wet. I opened the kiln up and added this new addition. About 15 minutes later I heard a loud poof...I went down and the new addition had burst into a hundred pieces. Lesson: Don't add pieces to a hot kiln. "Jesse" wrote in message ... While cleaning up the community studio, someone put a small bisqued pot into the pug mill. Oops. We had to throw about 800lbs of recycled clay and recovered about 30 dime sized pieces of bisquware. We reconstructed the small pot as best we could and put it on display as a warning of what not to do... "annemarie" wrote in message ... "Steve Mills" wrote in message ... Mine was having a blackboard with chalk in my workshop to make notes about orders while we still had very young children. They had a chalk fight while I was in a different part of the building, and a lot of chalk wound up in the reclaim bin, which was open, and was pugged in with the new batch of clay. I found out about it when bits started blowing out of the sides, bottoms, etc. of my pots. I had to bury half a ton (500Kgs) of contaminated clay and start again. This was at a time when we hadn't long been in business so money was short. Needless to say blackboards, chalk, AND plaster are not allowed within 500 feet of my workshop under any pretext what-so-ever! Steve Paranoid, in Bath UK Oh my gosh!!! I can't think of any thing like that. I made all the normal mistakes of the beginner like lifting a dry green bowl by the rim (left holding rim only) making HEAVY pots. One time I made a composite pot, very complicated, upside down bowl, figures holding up another bowl, then underglazed it, had dreams of a masterpiece ) Then lifting it into the kiln bumped into the kiln shelf and the whole thing slowly fell apart in my hands. I jumped up and down on it. Oh well just wonder what my next big mistake will be. Annemarie |
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Bubbles wrote:
Hi guys! You are being so quiet these days and I love to read from you - so starting a topic I am pretty sure most of you will have input to! What have been your biggest blunders? Either technical or practical - I don't care - I just want to know what big mistakes you have made (potterywise) and what you learned from them :-) Mine up to now HAS to be making an oven dish with folded over handles, and the handles made the dish too wide to go in the oven! Next dish is gonna have handles straight up from the ends! Years ago, while taking care of the studio at Bowie State University, i was cleaning up the large table with buckets of glaze. What i didn't realize at the time was, the table wasn't a table, it was a huge heavy tabletop resting on two oildrums. I was pushing buckets from one side to the other in order to wipe the surface underneath, when suddenly the load was too heavy in the front and the entire tablatop with about 12 large buckets tipped over and crashed to the floor. (I was lucky i didn't stand in front of it and got hit by the tabletop!) The mess was beyond description! Monika -- Monika Schleidt www.schleidt.org/mskeramik (If you wish to send me a mail, please leave out the number after my name!) |
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Once a paraplexic asked me to fire some sculptures for him, from his own clay.
He told me it was porcelain, and although I had misgivings, I fired it in my stoneware kiln. It was some lowfire kind of porcelain, for every shelf I put the sculptures on, it congealed into the shelf. I was out a few shelves--he was upset that I'd destroyed his sculptures. I'm very leary of firing other people's work as a result. Brad Sondahl -- For original art, music, pottery, and literature, visit my homepage http://sondahl.com To reply to me directly, don't forget to take out the "garbage" from my address. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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