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Glaze Fire Complete

Merry Christmas to your eyes.  Check out the photos of the new ceramic items that I just pulled out of the kiln.  If you’ve been keeping score at home you probably realized that I had a lot of glazing to do approximately one week ago.  Well, by “a lot” I meant “so much that I might never want to glaze anything again”.  You see, I spent most of the day and all night Saturday and into the early morning Sunday doing nothing except glazing bisqueware.  The good news is that I ordered five new glaze colors recently so I got to try them out. 

I fired the kiln starting Sunday at around 1:15 and it finished 8 hours later.  It cooled down Sunday night and Monday while I was at jury duty.  Of the new glazes that I ordered I really like the Temmoku and Textured Turquoise from Amaco and the Red Gold from Coyote.  Here are a few pictures:

Full glaze fire load from 12/14/08
small bowls and mugs with earth tones
Larger items

stoneware containers with lids
Small and medium mixing bowls
XL mug, marbled vase, torn vase

ceramic wheel-thrown plates
target practice, small cylinders
pitchers, tall lidded containers

cone 6 glaze test tiles

If I can pull it off again, I hope to glaze another load and have it fired by Christmas.  Or Groundhog day….

Small Clay Studio Upgrades

Last weekend I was hard at work in the studio.  I not only made a few small clay pieces, I also improved the studio a little bit.  I got tired of walking all over to get a bat when I was ready to throw so I upgraded my wheel table to include a bat holder.  It can hold a total of eight bats at a time and is conveniently located under my wheel table to the left as I am sitting at the wheel.  I also decided that I needed  little more shelf space.  I put a larger shelf above the original glaze shelf which hangs over the glaze table.  Now I have room for glazes, tools and bisque pieces that are ready to be glazed, all within reaching distance of the clay table.  So now I’ll probably have to start some sort of exercise program since I won’t be walking back and forth across my studio every few minutes.

Fuzzy’s Original Pottery Bat Holder
Bat Holder with Bats
Studio-Glaze Shelf #2

This past weekend I threw a couple small lidded vessels.  Perhaps there will be pictures available on this very site at some time.

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