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Morty Bachar
- Stamford, CT
- United States
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How to turn your pottery knowledge into a business
Started this discussion. Last reply by Benjamin Coffman Feb 3, 2012. 1 Reply 1 Like
Lakeside Pottery is a ceramic art teaching facility in Stamford, CT with over 4,500 enrolments in the past 7 1/2 years. We have experianced that in addition to pottery and sculpting abilities and…Continue
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- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- Interested in learning, professional
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- Patty and I manage, teach and do our own work at our pottery facility, Lakeside Pottery, ceramic school and studio in Stamford CT, where the local building code does not permit a gas kiln. We therefore spent years developing or finding glazes that have a "gas firing" effects. We trained thousands of people in our studio and freely share all of our knowledge of pottery techniques, teaching methodology and glazes with all who are interested.
- 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?
- Share knowledge with others
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- home studio, commercial studio
- Do you have your own, or participate in other ceramics Websites:
- http://www.lakesidepottery.com
- How did you find this network?
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How to turn your "clay" abilities into a business
Posted on December 16, 2009 at 7:00am 2 Comments 3 Likes
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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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My sense is there is a large underserved population of electric potters, and that we may be on the brink of filling that need. My most difficult task over the last year and a half has been getting members to contribute substantive content, but that has been improving over the last month or so, and your contributions appear to up the ante in a big way. So thanks and I hope this can be a significant venue in support of your efforts.