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March Newsletter
The Cone6Pots Network Newsletter
~ Ceramic info, tips, and tidbits from our network and beyond ~
OUR UN-CONFERENCE IN ALASKA
We’re pleased to announce the upcoming Alaskan Claycation is nearly booked! Just three spots remain! Last chance registration period ends March 17. For more information, check out Alaska Gallery Lodge or contact George Lewter, leaving a message with your phone number.
A GREAT PLACE TO NETWORK
A network like Cone6Pots is a great place to see and be seen. Many members share their websites, blogs, and other online goodies. This month, E. Preston Rice of Pic Works Pottery invited folks to visit his blog. His latest offering features video of him centering on the wheel with his elbow. Good times.
FUN FACT
Did you know all of the letters for the word “pottery” are on the top line of a standard “Qwerty” keyboard. And you thought you knew all there was to know about pottery?
INSIGHT
There’s a prayer that goes into digging the clay, there’s a prayer that goes into refining it. There’s a prayer for making the pots, and maybe two prayers for bringing them to the dealer.
Emma Lewis, Pueblo potter
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Use These Links to Support Us
Low cost flat lapping disc can be used on you potters wheel if you, drill bat pin holes in it, and provide a trickle of water to cool it. At amazon.com, 120 grit for aggressive material removal. Click the image to purchase
Members have had great things to say about John Britt's new book, Mid-Range Glazes. Click the image to buy from Amazon.com
Purchase Glazes Cone 6 by Michael Bailey, The Potters Book of Glaze Recipes by Emmanuel Cooper, or Making Marks by Robin Hopper, all available at amazon.com. Mastering Cone 6 Glazes by John Hesselberth & Ron Roy is now out of print.
Harbor Freight is a great place to find unbeatable prices for better HVLP spray guns with stainless steel parts and serviceable economy models, as well as detail guns, all tested by our members for spraying glazes, as well as compressors to power the guns. As yet no one has tested and commented on the remarkably inexpensive air brushes at harbor freight.
The critter siphon gun is a spray alternative that is well liked by some of our members, and is available at amazon.
Amazon is also a competitive source for photo light tents for shooting professional quality pictures of your work. They also have the EZ Cube brand favored by several of our members. You might also want to purchase the book Photographing Arts, Crafts and Collectibles . . .
If you are up to creating videos of your work or techniques you might want to invest in a flip video camera
Following are a few scales useful for potters. Ohaus Triple Pro Mechanical Triple Beam Balance, 2610g x 0.1g, with Tare $169.00
And finally a low cost clone of the OHaus. The Adam Equipment TBB2610T Triple Beam Mechanical Balance With Tare Beam $99.62
ebay is a great alternative for many tools and the equipment used in the ceramics studio - kilns, wheels, extruders, slab rollers are often listed there both new and used.
Tips for Members
If you just want to spout off, it is best accomplished as a blog posting. If you want to get more guidance and ideas from other members, ask a question as a new discussion topic. In the upper right corner of the lists for both types of posting, you will find an "+Add " button. Clicking it will open an editor where you create your posting. 4/16/2014
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