Huh! http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/Education/Teachers/Book/images/abakanoviczbacks.jpg Maybe I should read the artist's statement re the work. Des ... -- Des &...
Des & Jan Howard
djhoward@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:44 pm
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Dear Hank Murrow, For some years I serviced heavy industry for Wall Comonoy Corporation, a Detroit crowd, promoting their hard surfacing alloys.One successful...
Ivor and Olive Lewis
iandol@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:44 pm
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Hi Janie, Listen to Steve and Craig - they are right - don't use lead glazes unless you have them tested - lead is a controlled substance for potters in North ...
Ron Roy
ronroy@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:47 pm
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Hi Paul, I have never heard of calcined silica - what exactly is it? First of all - adding silica sand to a clay body can present certain problems - mainly...
Ron Roy
ronroy@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:47 pm
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Well, I finally got a block of time to work on the site. If you have sent me a picture recently, you might want to check and see if you are now one of the mug...
Gail Phillips
figglywig@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:48 pm
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R. Markquis Brown (Heavens! What a gorgeous name!) writes: "....I have been a potter now since 1975 and have never really understood the glaze formula for cone...
Lili Krakowski
mlkrakowski@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:49 pm
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Just a thought to add to Lilli's post, the " L configuration" Lilli speaks of at the rim of the lid is the corrugation principal that works everywhere in...
David Woof
woofpots@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:49 pm
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I now have waited long enough. Did I miss this , or DID someone mention what I learned from Beth Molaro (who probably learned it at Penn State)at the Gibbes...
Lili Krakowski
mlkrakowski@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:49 pm
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Just my 2 grosch here -- but I'd suggest to posters generally that when you get to the schoolyard level of "Nyah nyah" or "I know I am but what are you" it's...
Steve Slatin
claystevslat@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
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http://www.chakaiabooker.com/ I would love to hear what you folks think about this work. I absolutely love it. It is reminiscent of an event here at the ...
Elizabeth Priddy
priddyclay@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:14:45 -0500, clennell <clennell@...> wrote: ... I'm surprised but remember I don't know much about pottin' history yet. Lili...
Taylor, in Rockport TX
wirerabbit@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
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I've found the cheapest and most successful way to stamp on pots is to use an underglaze (like velvet) as you would printers ink - ie - roll a small amount...
Meg Smeal
MSmeal@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
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Mel, Your picture is from the Mori pottery in Otani on Shikoku, Tokushima, Japan. I lived about 20 minutes from there when I lived in Japan. I wandered into...
Richard Mahaffey
rickmahaffey@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
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... Dear Fred; I was thinking along those lines for the latest iteration of my "Migrations" series, which I am showing during NCECA. Need to get the image onto...
Hank Murrow
hmurrow@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:52 pm
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hi everyone,,,, so, yes, i throw off the hump,,, but how do you all trim "off the hump"? i hate having to lift each piece and center it and stablize it with...
Tae Kim
taegello@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:52 pm
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Thanks L.P. I'll start making calls in the a.m.! I didn't know they already had them out there. Will you be in Portland this march? Take it easy, Logan "L. P....
logan johnson
audeostudios@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:08 pm
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I am going to use lusters for the first time. What do I use to thin them and to clean the brushes? Thanks. __________________________________________ Mallory...
Studio ArtWorks - Mal...
artworks@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:08 pm
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Dear Paul Herman, Have a look at the reference I gave for Pyrometric Cone Equivalent in Fournier's Dictionary, Page 183. He gives a high duty firebrick with a...
Ivor and Olive Lewis
iandol@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:11 pm
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Masa Miyajima popped up on my Google news scan again today. You can read about him here: http://tinyurl.com/7bq5a *TMCnet -** Jan 29, 2006* (Columbus Dispatch...
Lee Love
Lee@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:11 pm
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In reading Cushings Handbook on slips, he suggests adding 0.25% of a deflocculant (i.e., Calgon, sodium silicate, Darvan, etc.) to the water before adding the...
Paulette Carr
paulette_carr@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:25 pm
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What a schedule! What a menu! I'd like to be included next year, if feasible. Best, B.B.Q. Billy, a.k.a. Short Ribs Steven ... ...
Farfl's House
farfl@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:27 pm
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Dear Michael Wendt, When you write 2300 degree brick I presume you are speaking in Fahrenheit, which exchanges to 1260 Celsius round about Orton Cone 8 What...
Ivor and Olive Lewis
iandol@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:27 pm
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Anyone not sure about the lead issue can do an claart archive search with my name & the subject "lead". e.g. see: http://www.potters.org/subject71095.htm ...
Gayle Bair
gayle@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:27 pm
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... I have wedged perlite into stoneware clay (I don't recommend this for throwing. The perlite can be sharp) and fired it to cone 10. Larger pieces melted out...
Lee Love
Lee@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:27 pm
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... That's where I am now. The ceramics/sculpture department at Washington U. is located in the Lewis Center, named for the above-mentioned chap. It was once...
Snail Scott
snail@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:27 pm
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Robin, On of the best articles I have read on the makeup of glazes was by Richard Eppler. Right at the moment I can't seem to find that online, although I ...
Mert & Holly Kilpatrick
kilpatrk@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:28 pm
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This post brought to mind a photo in one of my early books of the then famous Italian sculptor Marini (Martini?) creating a sculpture in his black suit dressed...
Bonnie Staffel
bstaffel@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:56 pm
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The recent discussion on lead, and a recent development in my glazing has led me to wonder something. Are there other problematic oxides/metals whose vapours...
Mark Tigges
mtigges@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:57 pm
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Hi Group, I read with great interest about the summize of Fero Frit 3278. I got on the phone to my local supplier, Bennett's Pottery Supply in Ocoee, Florida ...
Gary Finfrock
Garybear34452@...
Feb 1, 2006 6:36 pm
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David Woof writes: "Lili, Carol, The "bentonite" and the Bad clay must first be mixed together dry because the bentonite, wetted by itself, will become a...
