clennell on sun 31 jan 99
I understand that our glaze doctor Captain Crawdad has been invited to Mels
potters camp in Feb. I now know why Mel needs to see the doctor. The
postings on Petes Red will have turned the doctor cranberry. The reckless
approach of copying a glaze out of a mag and then glazing 10 bowls as a
test will have smoke coming from RRs ears. This is exactly what I did for
over twenty years. One good glaze and 40 trips to the dump with 40 other
glaze loads that looked terrible. Not at all what they looked like in the
mag, nothing near what I imagined, wasted time, wasted material, wasted
money and wasted dreams.
All the while that I did this I was buds with the Captain. Why didn't I go
for help, get myself cured, get on the road of recovery. Kind of like the
kid that didn't listen to his father throughout his teens and then turns 20
and says "I think my old man is getting smarter."
As we move along in our careers we see that we ain't got the time, energy
or fortunes to waste pots. We take more time to make them, they are better
than before, probably more valuable and there aren't as many left in us.
Hopefully thousands more but fewer than when we were twenty.
If you call the doctor, you got to listen to his/her advice. Me thinks, you
ain't gonna like it. It even requires testing a glaze you have used for 10
years before you glaze 10 bowls and fire them.
This recovering reckless potter is trying to follow doctors orders.
Have a great doctors appointment.
Cheers,
Tony
P.S I got a great recipe for vegetarian lasagna , if you want to try a
recipe. It's even a red in colour.
Clennell
4545 King Street RR# 1
Beamsville, Ontario Canada L0R 1B0
phone (905) 563-9382
fax (905) 563-9382
e mail clennell@bestnet.org
David Hendley on mon 1 feb 99
Dear Tony,
I copy glaze recipes out of magazines and glaze good pots
with them (not 10 at a time, but a few).
I also:
Buy lottery tickets
Speed in my car
Try for 'one more pull' on a big round pot at the point of collapse
Open the kiln too soon
Ignore the doctor when he says to drink less coffee
All these things may be stupid, but they're F-U-N.
Then there's always that chance that you will hit the jackpot.
Yeah, I know how to develop a glaze. I have a pretty good
idea what it will be like by looking at the formula, and if
it meets the criteria for a durable food-safe glaze.
But I still want to be surprised sometimes, even if it's not
a 'successful' surprise.
Don't suggest that we should always eat vegetarian lasagna;
let us go against the doctor's orders and have a thick, juicy
Texas T-bone occasionally.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
P. S. I can tell by looking at the recipe that, on my claybody,
Pete's Cranberry Red would have more craze lines than a
dried-up Texas pond in August. Still might be fun to try it.
At 04:39 PM 1/31/99 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I understand that our glaze doctor Captain Crawdad has been invited to Mels
>potters camp in Feb. I now know why Mel needs to see the doctor. The
>postings on Petes Red will have turned the doctor cranberry. The reckless
>approach of copying a glaze out of a mag and then glazing 10 bowls as a
>test will have smoke coming from RRs ears. This is exactly what I did for
>over twenty years. One good glaze and 40 trips to the dump with 40 other
>glaze loads that looked terrible. Not at all what they looked like in the
>mag, nothing near what I imagined, wasted time, wasted material, wasted
>money and wasted dreams.
>All the while that I did this I was buds with the Captain. Why didn't I go
>for help, get myself cured, get on the road of recovery. Kind of like the
>kid that didn't listen to his father throughout his teens and then turns 20
>and says "I think my old man is getting smarter."
>As we move along in our careers we see that we ain't got the time, energy
>or fortunes to waste pots. We take more time to make them, they are better
>than before, probably more valuable and there aren't as many left in us.
>Hopefully thousands more but fewer than when we were twenty.
>If you call the doctor, you got to listen to his/her advice. Me thinks, you
>ain't gonna like it. It even requires testing a glaze you have used for 10
>years before you glaze 10 bowls and fire them.
>This recovering reckless potter is trying to follow doctors orders.
>Have a great doctors appointment.
>Cheers,
>Tony
>
>P.S I got a great recipe for vegetarian lasagna , if you want to try a
>recipe. It's even a red in colour.
>
>Clennell
>4545 King Street RR# 1
>Beamsville, Ontario Canada L0R 1B0
>phone (905) 563-9382
>fax (905) 563-9382
>e mail clennell@bestnet.org
>
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