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ping Steve Graber
Hi Steve Thanks for your kind comments re dragons. You asked for more detail about the emerging dragon - what would you like to know? All this has given me the confidence to keep going along this...
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Used wrong cones in kiln sitter - Help
I can't believe I did this. I fire in an electric kiln. I was rushing to get in a ^6 GLAZE firing for an upcoming event and I use an 04 cone in my kiln sitter instead of cone 6. In the morning I'm...
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International Ceramics Directory
If you are a craft and pottery or ceramic artists in general you should add your profile to the International Ceramics Directory at already many ceramic artists registered becasue registration isFREE...
 
Allach Porcelain displays odd socialist symbolism or markings.....
Allach Porcelain uses a logo that exposes the swastika as crossed "S" letters symbolizing "Socialism" under the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party. provides additional confirmation of...
 
porcelain firing
I've built something which is very, very fragile. It will finally need firing to 1250C to mature the clay - at which point I suspect that the clay will be beginning to 'soften' and not be able to take...
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Kiln cement and kiln repair
Please forgive my newbie ignorance, but I just purchased two cans of: Refractory Cement (Thin with water) Kiln patch (contents may settle and solidify. Stir with putty knife.} I need to do some...
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on glaze colours and lustres
I regularly use onglaze colours fired to 760C on unglazed porcelain which has been fired to 1250C. What I was wondering was if there is sufficient 'glaze base/cover' deposited by the colours to enable...
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glaze freeware
Some time ago someone asked me to include a print function on the little glaze program I have. Well I finally got around to it. This is a simplified version of a glaze analysis program for those who...
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Re:Trolls
Best not to reply at all to these Trolls and certainly never cross post (thank you for not). They then attack the group and being trolls you can neither educate or reason with them. Rec.ponds was...
 
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Help with price of Skutt model 181
All Working through my grandmothers estate we have a Skutt model 181 that she bought many years ago but apparently never used. Seems she kept using her Paragon A-55. We have someone who is interested...
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Stuff for sale in U.K.
Hope it's OK to advertise some equipment for sale by a friend who is giving up pottery; if not, flame me: ************************************************************************* *** FOR SALE, in...
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tea pot handles of other than clay
Hi, I want to make my own tea pot handle, not just get the bamboo ones that we see all the time. I have seen many very interesting ones in the pages of Clay times, etc, but the info about the tea pot...
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Sharing ideas
I posted 2 recent thoughts I had on useful tools (using toilet brushes for stirring/mixing glazes and using dehumidifier water for mixing glazes) and the moderator of clayart came back with his own...
 
Calendar with photos of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Wall Calendar featuring photos - Unguided Tour of The Anderson Ranch Arts Center Established in the mid-1960s the Anderson Ranch Arts Center is on the site of a turn-of-the-20th-Century sheep and...