Mel Jacobson on tue 23 dec 97
have been gone for a couple of weeks....been busy.
let me jump on mr. katz' comment on claybody.....
i am a firm believer that if you have s cracks you are
using the wrong clay body.
never had one s crack in the thousands of pots made in
kyoto...not one.
never have them in my studio.
had many from the school a few years back when using
a tight white mid range body. in fact could not make a
set of anything with a tight ring foot....all s cracked.
you can compress til your hands bleed, and if your
body is too tight....s cracks.
modify your body, add sand, fine grog......
some bodies are just prone to s cracks.
mel/mn
p.s. it was a joy to see doug gray's new teaching facility
at francis marion college in south carolina...and his 150 cube
kiln has real potential....i think he should just increase the scale
of his own pots. i wanted to stay and make huge pots, lots of
them, and fire in that big kiln.
and dannon, we are all waiting to hear how the `best little kiln
in the world` fires. tell those janitors to run that #* gas line.
and i might add....fire that kiln to about 1900 before the wood
goes in. in fact, you might want to fire gas with one burner, and
add wood in the second port. (response to your letter on clayart last
week). (and she did spill a wonderful martini of mine all over our pots at
the farm last summer....looking at the bottom)
i am almost recovered from mexican e-coli, a really bad cold, and a
really nasty rotatore cuff.....god, what a combo. if i had gotten a cold
sore, paper cut or a pimple in my nose i would have jumped off a bridge.....
happy holidays clayart friends.....
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