mel jacobson on tue 4 jan 11
this is a great selling point that every potter
should have in his or her sales talk.
cheap dishes are usually bisque fired high, glaze fired low.
you all know the reason....room in the kiln.
you can stack gobs of dishes in a bisque firing, and
every dish must have its own space in the glaze firing.
think of the fuel saving. industrial magic. so, they
don't last a lifetime, and craze like mad..no one cares.
they are cheap.
potters do the opposite, low bisque firing, and high
fire glaze.
the melt of the glaze into the clay body makes for very
strong, long lasting dishes. they do not chip in the sink.
they have legs for the future.
this is not a cheap spin story. it explains a great
deal to your customer.
as with the last sets of dishes i made....i can
tell my customers that their great grandchildren will eat off
these dishes, and maybe the entire set will be in great shape
a hundred years down the pike.
just like those wonderful historic porcelains from grandma that last foreve=
r.
vitrification.
i remember when i first saw that word...vitrification.
on the back of men's toilet urinals. `vitrified china`.
one day i said...`hooozah, now i know`. i think i was reading
dan rhodes first book.
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
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