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"you can't stilt hf"...

updated thu 4 nov 99

 

eden@sover.net on tue 2 nov 99

In response to Anji's queri: I worked at cone 9-10 for years stilting
everything I fired on either porcelain triangular stilts or the "hershey's
kisses" porcelain stilts they used to sell or bigger ones I made myself. I
made sure the stilt points were firmly under the wall so they were
well-supported and didn't have any problems with deforming the pots.

Eleanora......all set up to pour the floor......let's pray it doesn't snow
before the concrete truck comes next week.......

..............

Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net

Jonathan Kaplan on wed 3 nov 99

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>In response to Anji's queri: I worked at cone 9-10 for years stilting
>everything I fired on either porcelain triangular stilts or the "hershey's
>kisses" porcelain stilts they used to sell or bigger ones I made myself. I
>made sure the stilt points were firmly under the wall so they were
>well-supported and didn't have any problems with deforming the pots.


The stilts made by Rosselli Pottery of Philadelphia, the ones we see in
most of the catalogs with metal pins in ceramic bases can fire well up to
cone 4, which we have done repeatedly.

Jonathan

Jonathan Kaplan
Ceramic Design Group
PO Box 775112
Steamboat Springs CO 80477
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