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Skip Deems
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- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- I was a watercolor artist and wanted a more challenging environment. I was blessed to make friends with a potter named Rick Berman who took me under his wing. With Ricks guidance I quickly mastered many shapes and focused on high fire gas, salt, raku and saggar firings. I moved to the Florida panhandle and set up a studio in my garage. Now I have my own electric kiln and I am trying to master cone 6 glazes with mixed results. Again, my experience is cone 10 gas, salt anf raku.
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- Trying to master the glazes. Mixed results. Currently using pre mixed Amaco Potters Choice and Coyote Slow Cool crystal. Have achieved sone good results with layering the Amaco but the Crystal is a disaster. Following the ramping but no crystals. I'm not at the point in room or experience to mix my own.
- 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?
- I want to be part of a group not a lurker. I want to create discussions on how to make everyone better and learn as much as I can.
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- home studio
- How did you find this network?
- referred by friend
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Tips for Members
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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