Hello All, I am sort of new to Pottery. I am trying to make some good Pottery from jade (that stuff is hard to cut!)I found someone who sells raw jade on line at
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Hello All, I am sort of new to Pottery. I am trying to make some good Pottery from jade (that stuff is hard to cut!)I found someone who sells raw jade on line at
Hard to cut? I bet it is even harder to wedge. Steve in Tampa, FL
Red i think what you really might want to do is find out about sculpture or a sculpture group. No offense but the only way i can see this as applying to pottary is if you take the remnants and grind it up for iclusion in a glaze recipeee.
Now what i do know about jade is that it can take very well to polishing but the quality depends on the region. I do know that chinese jade is very rare and expensive but it is considered to be the best.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
i like the "hard to wedge" reply. definitely! redrider, what you are looking to do is definitely in the sculpture genre rather than pottery. but good luck with it.
It also has very toxic dust and you need to wear a mask when carving it. Like the others suggested though, this is a pottery group, working in clay which is then fired in a kiln. :o) In NZ we have jade, or green stone or pounamu depending on your preference. The Maori people value it very highly. Annemarie
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