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cake stand
Hello Everyone, I threw a tall pedestal all the way down to the bat and I threw a 12 inch plate form and they both turned out great but when I attatched the pedestal to the plate it looks like it bows...
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pottery tools wanted/ glass kiln wanted
Just starting out in pottery. So I'm at the point now that I need som tools. Anyone have any to sell? Also looking for a glass kiln, sm. new to this group. regards, bo -- BOB SANDOVAL
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Cheap Insulation
I want to build a Pottery Kiln out of a 45 gallon oil drum. What can I use as cheap thermal insulation?
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New to this newsgroup
Hi everyone. I am new to the group so I don't know what questions have been asked. Here's mine... I've been making pottery at a community studio for the past 3-4 years. This studio uses gas fired...
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commercial raku glaze advice
I was wondering if anyone had any prefrences for commercial raku glazes. I have a class of 10 students and was considering just buying premade glaze. I am a newbe at making my own glaze(hope to change...
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raku or salt kilns
How many of you have raku or salt kilns?
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What to make for my niece?
Hi again! My niece is being Christened soon, and I will be one of her godmothers. Thus, I would like to give her a very special gift, but am at a bit of a quandry as to what to make. I thought an...
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Pressurized Kerosene kiln burners
Kerosene burners that will work with no electricity; or with a controller and very little electricity [alternative power sources, etc.] I designed and built several, and these last ones work really...
 
Firing clay churchwarden pipes
Hi! I have recently started experimenting with making Churchwarden pipes out of white earthenware clay. By what I have read the pipes are not glazed, and must be fired at a low enough temperature to...
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Problem with Stilts
Hi Folks! I just fired 8 stoneware mugs with cone 6 commercial glaze. I glazed the bottom of the mugs and placed them on stilts. In a few cases, the stilts seemed to have melted. These stilts came...
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ClayArt?
Is ClayArt down I am not getting any messages?
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Collaring and slab bashing
Hi all, I was facinated to read all the stuff about throwing and collaring as I've been trying to throw a number of closed forms recently. I find that when 'Knuckling' up if the finger suporting on...
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Centering and throwing
When I was throwing the other day I was trying to quantify and qualify what the whole process was all about. One of the things that struck me that may confuse beginner potters is that when you are...
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Pottery classes?
Hello, folks! I'm a new lurker to this newsgroup. I'm hoping you can help me connect with a pottery community in Portland, Oregon. My mother was a potter, and I grew up scouring the hills (so to...
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computer program for inventory, sales etc?
does anyone know of a small program that can be used, by a couple who make ceramics, to keep track of their product line - production, sales, raw materials etc. Preferably something that has already...
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