Dave Wheeler on tue 12 dec 00
Misc. thoughts regarding current topics.....
Warping Tiles
I haven't made many tiles myself but I did tour a local 'art' tile
studio/factory once and they were drying all of their tiles on
metal racks (like a bakers rack) so that air could get to both
sides of the tiles. They also claimed that the "drywall sandwich"
process didn't work at all for them.
Shino experiments
A year or so ago it was decided that a certain mug deserved the
ugliest glaze combination possible (I won't go into why this was
but these things happen). In any case, the ugliest that we could
think of was the house shino with a blue-green gloss over it. This
combo has been known to bubble, craze, spit, and turn a really nasty
bluish, grayish color (huge, sharp craters). Something obviously
went wrong and the mug turned out spectacularly--a deep midnight blue
with funky bright green spots about 1/8 inch in diameter every 1/2
inch or so. I have this mug on my mantle now. Crazy. Noone that
I've talked to yet has seen anything like it at cone 10 reduction.
Glaze Tests
Thanks to Mel for the brilliant post. I've never been able to bring
myself to make test tiles. I always use pots. I couldn't agree more.
I was at my potter friend's house just this evening and she has a big
board with hooks and test tiles hung all over it and I'm pulling them
off asking 'What's this?' and 'What's that?' (marked with #s instead
of names) and God bless her but when I started hanging them back up
she says "Hey! Those are aren't in order". Geez. I have boxes of
test pieces. Ones that worked AND ones that didn't.
The Archive
The clayart archive is amazing and I agree that it should generally
be consulted prior to posting standard questions...but...things change,
new people join the list (new people who know new things, different
things), new info becomes available to 'old' people, etc. It seems to
me that if everyone always just consulted the archive, read what was
there and was satisfied with it then the info regarding that topic
might become stale, out-of-date, etc. Anyways, just a thought. I
don't think we need a cone 6 clear recipe on the list every week,
but then, maybe someone has come up with a *better* cone 6 clear and
we won't know about it until some newbie mistakenly posts the question
without consulting the archive.
Blizzard
OK I'm done now and going to bed. There are at least 10 inches on the
ground and I can't see the neighbors place. Pretty cool. We haven't
had snow like this in maybe 10 years, maybe 25. I seem to remember
1974 or 1975 having a big blizzard. I've never seen a "Blizzard Warning"
graphic on the TV set before (right in the middle of the Monday Night
Football score-box). What a great night to go tromping.
Dave Wheeler
Dwheel@cris.com
Michigan, USA
Gail Dapogny on tue 12 dec 00
Dave,
I really liked your comment about the archives. Part of the charm and
immense satisfaction of being on Clayart is that, despite our being 3000
(or so) strong, Clayarters seem to share a warm, cozy kinship with one
another, an alliance that gives us permission to communicate our questions,
problems, discoveries, and even occasionally our digressions without always
having to consult a database. (I say this while also recognizing that our
archives are a tremendous resource.)
------Gail
P.S. You must have been somewhere far away on a nice warm vacation on New
Year's Day in 1999 when we had at least twice this amount of snow! And
there have been plenty of other good storms as well. I do admit that
winter 2000 was small pickins in the snow department. Right now though it's
beautiful and my 3 Border Collies are in doggy-romp-heaven!
Blizzard
>
>OK I'm done now and going to bed. There are at least 10 inches on the
>ground and I can't see the neighbors place. Pretty cool. We haven't
>had snow like this in maybe 10 years, maybe 25.
>The Archive
>
>The clayart archive is amazing and I agree that it should generally
>be consulted prior to posting standard questions...but...things change,
>new people join the list (new people who know new things, different
>things), new info becomes available to 'old' people, etc. It seems to
>me that if everyone always just consulted the archive, read what was
>there and was satisfied with it then the info regarding that topic
>might become stale, out-of-date, etc. Anyways, just a thought. I
>don't think we need a cone 6 clear recipe on the list every week,
>but then, maybe someone has come up with a *better* cone 6 clear and
>we won't know about it until some newbie mistakenly posts the question
>without consulting the archive.
>Dave Wheeler
>Dwheel@cris.com
>Michigan, USA
>
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will edwards on tue 12 dec 00
Hello,
Well that goes to show that everyone has a different opinion. We have two=
huge
sets of drying racks as described and have had little luck using them for=
tiles. It does help with our platters and other flat objects if we use a =
light
drape over the top.
Perhaps drywall is for some who are willing to do the flipping and the wi=
re
racks are for others who have figured out the best method for that.
Its always good to hear both the pro's and con's of how to do things so w=
e can
narrow down the process of invention.
"I haven't made many tiles myself but I did tour a local 'art' tile
studio/factory once and they were drying all of their tiles on
metal racks (like a bakers rack) so that air could get to both
sides of the tiles. They also claimed that the "drywall sandwich"
process didn't work at all for them." <<
My thought is the edges seem to dry the quickest and regardless of how mu=
ch
air we have around them it never has given up the flatness we would desir=
e.
The weight of the board would not only slowly remove moisture from the pi=
eces
(The drywall has a similar effect as casting plaster but can be slowed do=
wn)
but would give enough weight to hold them flat while in the midst of dryi=
ng.
And we make tiles often! We have 3 installations right now in process. I =
would
say that D. Wheeler may have hit on a good topic. I bet they must turn th=
e
tiles every so often and it is quicker for them that way?
William Edwards
Opelika Arts Center
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