mel jacobson on tue 3 jan 12
earl, with that new kiln of yours and with
the need to find self...kick that kiln in the
ass and fire cone 11.
simple glazes...good melt.
find out what the kiln can do. hell,
empty one of those coffee cans of money
you have buried in your woods and kick butt.
your wife told me to tell you...`earl, don't be timid!`
once you find that your kiln can fire to an
apex temp and you can control it, then you can tone it back.
lots of good reduction stuff at cone 6-7.
that may be your future, but test your limits.
that will build your confidence and sense of
limits. good and bad.
start with a sandy, fine grog based clay body.
open it up.
make a lot of stuff and fire it all.
sort it, plant some in the woods, dig a big hole...and
start again.
fire that kiln every two weeks.
don't stop, keep going....you will sweat
and swear, but you will discover what
you can do. don't think like an engineer..think
like a competent potter. you don't work as an
engineer any longer. be you, and that is far good enough.
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Earl Krueger on tue 3 jan 12
So what you're telling me is
Just let go
Go with the flow
Let it all hang out
My god, its not like a mistake is going to put a hundred million phone
customers out of service
Take a chance and see what happens
If the kiln doesn't reach temp tear it apart and rebuild it
Doing something is better than doing nothing
Ah Mel, you're so predictable.
To follow your advice my next pot will be made of clay with no less than
13.7% grog, will be 28.4 cm high by 9.2 cm wide at the base in the shape of
a parabola of revolution and will be fired to cone 11.0.
More or less.
Earl...
In the last stages of moving
And getting punchy.
On Jan 3, 2012 2:06 PM, "mel jacobson" wrote:
> earl, with that new kiln of yours and with
> the need to find self...kick that kiln in the
> ass and fire cone 11.
> simple glazes...good melt.
> find out what the kiln can do. hell,
> empty one of those coffee cans of money
> you have buried in your woods and kick butt.
>
> your wife told me to tell you...`earl, don't be timid!`
>
> once you find that your kiln can fire to an
> apex temp and you can control it, then you can tone it back.
>
> lots of good reduction stuff at cone 6-7.
> that may be your future, but test your limits.
> that will build your confidence and sense of
> limits. good and bad.
>
> start with a sandy, fine grog based clay body.
> open it up.
> make a lot of stuff and fire it all.
> sort it, plant some in the woods, dig a big hole...and
> start again.
> fire that kiln every two weeks.
> don't stop, keep going....you will sweat
> and swear, but you will discover what
> you can do. don't think like an engineer..think
> like a competent potter. you don't work as an
> engineer any longer. be you, and that is far good enough.
> mel
> from: minnetonka, mn
> website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
> clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
>
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