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August 2012 Blog Posts (3)
Almost time!
Here it is only 3 days till school starts, and I have been in teacher mode all summer. This year I agreed to teach their first ever ceramics class for summer school, so I tried to come up with something new for the shortened classes. I had three weeks to take the students through pinch, coil, and slab, with a project in each method. The first group did a pinch bowl, a coil mug with a face on it, and a slab plate on a hump mold. The second group did a pinch bowl, a coil mug and saucer,…
ContinueAdded by Robert Young on August 15, 2012 at 11:19pm — 2 Comments
Syncronisity
I've been extending my 'NEST' series and working on some exciting new bird feeders this week, they are great fun to throw! So was delighted to see fellow cone 6er Joe Shaw's Lovely form and delicious glaze when I logged in this morning.
If you havnt checked out Joes work yet I urge you to do so...Lovely work!
Heres a pic of the progress so far, these ones have been slipped with porcelain and incised, just waiting for the 'dags' to dry before brushing of and applying the Iron…
ContinueAdded by rose maguire on August 15, 2012 at 4:58pm — No Comments
Maybe old hat..... but it was new to me!
A while ago, some of the buttons on the control panel on my little Skutt KM-818 stopped working. I asked around & ended up sending it to Bartlett to have it repaired. Just this last week I was able to get it all put back together(I upgraded to an S-tc at the same time). Well, instead of repairing my old board, those nice boys at Bartlett sent me a re-furbished 700 board. Now how cool is that!?! In the menu, you can set it to prompt you for a pre-heat time every time you do a Cone…
ContinueAdded by Jeff Poulter on August 1, 2012 at 10:57am — 1 Comment
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