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Spraying glazes
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Firing Schedule - Fine tuning your electric kiln controller
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Kiln Controller Bartlett Genesis LT-3140
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Getting serious about selling your work.
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What is this glaze?
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Glazy -- a great ceramic glaze program online
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New Ownership for the Cone6Pots Network
Andrea Wolf and Gabriel Takacs are the new owners and managers of the network. They have solid credentials as ceramicists and perhaps more importantly for this network, as web/business developers. George Lewter will continue on as a member, friend, and promoter.
Reviving the network is going to require a leap of faith, with members providing new, relevant content, feedback, connections to outside content, and yes, buzz. We need more BUZZ.
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"I have installed my mural/grill on my porch, each tile is like a grill but the 5 holes have kiln cast solid glass that looks like the bottoms of old wine bottles. I have a total of 70 bottle bottoms in the mural. When I designed our…"
elephant bowl
Laguna white stoneware . black gloss inside . saturated gold on rim tusk and toe nails . smoke glaze on underside and heads. disappointed b/c small flaw inside bowl where I didn't close one dart well behind the elephant's head . fired cone 5-6
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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.
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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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