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orton cones and an old hebew story!

updated wed 2 may 01

 

Ababi on tue 1 may 01


( you would, probably say it on Mark Twain)
A person arrives to a town. "what kind of people are the citizens", he as=
ks
the first man he meets. "Terrible people all of them you should not come
here" The man answered.
The person goes here and there and ask another citizen: "What kind of peo=
ple
live in this town"? "All of them good people always help each other and
support the poor ones"
Our guest was surprised.
After a while he realized that the bad guy gave him his REAL answer and t=
he
good man gave him his REAL answer.
Hello Tim.
Sorry , I was probably wrong a bit.
In my school we never used cone also in my studio, I have an excellent ne=
w
(Hebrew) kiln with excellent control and not even a hole,except one too
high, if I would like to use cones.
In my antique kiln there was kind of 0.5" hole full with rust, could it b=
e
for cones?!

After some off list letters, I decided to check, at least one time where =
is
my ^6 perhaps it will help me with my crystalline glazes or even to save
electricity.
So I am not the bad guy, but was in kind of mind-fixation (is it a real
word?)
.....Ababi in the Northern Negev where birds are singings cows are giving
milk and some kind of nasty smell the sun is shining, and hot like Texas
(near the kiln)
ababisha@shoval.ardom.co.il
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