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Tony Hansen
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- Canada
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- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- master
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- Create technical online support materials including articles, databases, software.
- All our content is viewable by the public. Why do you want to be a member, when you can already see everything as a non-member?
- Ideas on the kinds of problems people are facing to give me ideas of the kinds of things I want to research to help them. I have been doing pottery since 1972 and my heart has always been at cone 6, successes there have been highlights of my ceramics life even though I have always had access to a free cone 10 reduction kiln in the studio at Plainsman Clays.
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- commercial studio
- Do you have your own, or participate in other ceramics Websites:
- http://digitalfire.com
- How did you find this network?
- referred by friend
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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.
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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.
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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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tony - yesterday i asked you about an alberta slip formula that you had mentioned in a previous message. sorry to have bothered you as i did a bit more searching and found the answer on the plainsmen clay alberta slip page. sometimes it takes just a bit more persistence to find the answer. thanks, though, for all your efforts to make ^6 website and insight more accessible. i really appreciate the work.
Tony I read Zakin's Cone 6 book in the early 70's and felt it was the future of ceramics what made you feel this way. Denice