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Jeff Poulter
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Old Skutt GAS kiln
Started this discussion. Last reply by George Lewter Feb 15, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
I have been away for awhile. We had to get our house ready to sell so that we could build a new one. Anyway, I am going to have my kiln room in the 3rd car garage and I will have my gas kiln just…Continue
Licorice V4
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeff Poulter Sep 18, 2015. 3 Replies 0 Likes
I have been having some crawling issues with Licorice & read somewhere that there is a Version 4 that behaves a little better, but I cannot find it again. Does anybody have that recipe or know…Continue
Dry pulling....
Started this discussion. Last reply by Robert Coyle Sep 16, 2015. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I am just wondering if other potters do dry pulling? I know when potters are making big stuff, they'll pull and then use a blow torch to firm it up and then pull it more, or add clay and pull, but…Continue
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"Hi Denice
I did a search and it went right to their new website. It said I had to reset my account since it was a new website. We built a new house a couple of years ago and all my pottery stuff is in storage. While doing the…"
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"Hi Jeff, this is Denice E. Demuth I was wondering if you have tried to get on Ceramics Monthly Forum lately, My computer won't let me, it claims that Ceramics Monthly has a virus. I was just wondering if it was Ceramics Monthly or…"
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S-type thermo couple
So between the house building and moving and 2 open heart surgeries, I have not been involved in pottery for awhile. All my kilns are stacked up in the 3rd car garage and I;m just waiting for spring and the OK from my cardiologist to get back into the swing of things. In the meantime, I have several automatic searches on e-Bay and one day it came up with this Type S TC for all of $18.88! Of course I had to buy one but with no way to test it, I have held off buying any more of them. Is there…See More
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'phew, glad that's done.....
Posted on March 8, 2016 at 10:11am 2 Comments 0 Likes
So my buddy & I just finished the last of these urns. They are for a certain building over in Fort Collins, Colorado. They ordered 10 of them total. We ended up making 19 total when all was said and done & delivered. We had breakage issues and a few glaze issues that we had to work through. In the beginning I was helping throw sections, but in the end I just helped get the clay wedged and took the torch to the sections and then I fired them & glazed them. Just glad it's all…
ContinueTest tiles....
Posted on September 14, 2015 at 3:17pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
So the last couple of weeks during some down time at work, I was able to mix up a bunch of glazes and do some test tiles... Now how do I get them home w/o ruining them!?!
Mission accomplished!!!!…
ContinueSimon Leach
Posted on August 18, 2015 at 9:34am 1 Comment 0 Likes
So Simon was in town last night, well, actually for a few nights but he gave a demo at our local supplier, Capital Ceramics. It was quite interesting & it was fun to meet him. Learned a few tricks even though I don't do much small stuff. A good time was had by all!!! jhp
My new LLutt Kiln
Posted on November 4, 2014 at 12:36pm 1 Comment 6 Likes
A few years back I had bought this used Skutt KM 818. It was in decent shape when I bought it but after changing the elements a few times, I started to have to use way too many element pins and the bottom & sides had had a few mishaps, so when I found this L&L J18 on our local wants ads, I snagged it up. The only place this kiln looked worn is on the top, the inside was pristine!!! So, I took the controller & S-TC out of the Skutt, took the manual controls off the L&L and…
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- At 2:33pm on October 23, 2024,
Ronald Morris said…
Good day,
I am RonaId Morris, I saw your profile and I decided to contact you immediately. Can you get back to me on my email (ronmorri01@gmail.com) for full details.
Regards.
- At 6:59pm on October 5, 2021,
Jeff Poulter said…
Hi Denice
I did a search and it went right to their new website. It said I had to reset my account since it was a new website. We built a new house a couple of years ago and all my pottery stuff is in storage. While doing the landscaping I suffered an aortic dissection. It’s a miracle I’m alive. I’ve had 2 open heart surgeries but this next year I will be getting my stuff out and my studio rebuilt. I’m having to take it slow but it will happen. I so want to throw again and do some glazing! Jeff
- At 6:24pm on October 5, 2021,
Hi Jeff, this is Denice E. Demuth I was wondering if you have tried to get on Ceramics Monthly Forum lately, My computer won't let me, it claims that Ceramics Monthly has a virus. I was just wondering if it was Ceramics Monthly or my computer. I noticed a old post I sent to you Feb 2014, I was telling you how I was cleaning and putting a mural in the drying cabinet. This week I am installing brick like tiles that have kiln cast glass medallions as a flower pattern set in them. I am not sure if it is a grill or a mural. I taught myself glass casting using recycled glass. Each glass medallion looks like the bottom of a old wine or beer bottle. I had to throw, bisque and seal each mold and then break the molds off to get the glass out. Each glass firing took 18 hours, I had to stay with the kiln the every time, none of my kilns are programmable. I am getting ready to start on another mural, I wanted to do something fun but they want a landscape. I am thinking of making it with different clay's but I need to do some testing first. I just finished firing another tile project that is made with three different clay's it will be installed in a few months. Let me know what you are working on and if you have heard anything on the Ceramics Monthly problems. Denice
- At 11:51am on February 25, 2014,
Jeff I'll try to dig that up next week, I am cleaning up a 5'x6' mural and putting it in drying cabinets and I'm running out of room. My studio is a mess but I'm going to clean it up as soon as I get all of the parts and pieces put away to dry. I still have a lot of glaze testing to do for the mural and 50 pieces of molding to go around the edge to make I'll do that after I clean. If you decide to make the glaze wear gloves and mask, I have had people look at the recipe and said they wouldn't make it because it was so toxic. So be careful, I went to college when you didn't wear masks or gloves they just told you not to eat lunch in the glaze mixing room. Denice
- At 2:14am on November 5, 2010,
Robert Young said…
- Well, the mail has gotten a lot better over the years. What used to take two weeks to get here, now takes 3-4 days. Larger items like a kiln, or a large order of clay would have to come by boat - about 2-3 weeks. But I like it here... I must, I've been here 21 years now. Now I'm teaching ceramics at a local high school. If I could just get them to fund the classes... maybe next year.
- At 1:35am on November 4, 2010,
- Congratulations on being featured! I really like the pics you have posted... were some of those done in two pieces?
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