Cyberpotter@AOL.COM on wed 5 sep 01
In a message dated 9/5/01 5:14:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
melpots@PCLINK.COM writes:
> and i do not like making pots from `baby phoo`.
>
> Fresh from the frustration of "handling" a set of 4 porcelain mugs, I must
> echo the sentiment and say there is nothing worse than pulling handles
> from, and attaching them to, baby poo! I will try to remember this and
> reach for the stoneware next time I feel the urge to mug.
>
> Nancy in Cincinnati
mel jacobson on wed 5 sep 01
funny stuff.
i have a bag to throw.
susan karrisch is working with it.
she has found:
you can make a plate with it...(and she knows how
to make great plates with clay...)
come back the next day and the rims are flat on the table.
it does not dry the same as clay. it forms a thin crust and remains
wet inside.
the trimmings take days to dry.
it acts not as clay, but as something else.
beyond thixenthropic...it is like hard, and if you drop
the bag it becomes liquid.
strange stuff.
makes me nervous.
smmooooth...very smmooooth.
and i do not like making pots from `baby phoo`.
any way what the hell do i know.
funny stuff.
mel
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
Stephen Cappelli on thu 6 sep 01
I have been using Axners Norma's porcelain for about two years now and love
it. Yes sometimes it is like baby phoo, but then you learn to just let it
sit for a little time uncovered. Attaching handles etc are no problems, I
do check them on a daily basis but figured that is all part of the process.
I like the end results, I like the way the glaze fits to the body, the depth
you get with oxide washes, and there is nothing sexier that a great copper
red against a deep black temmoku over porcelain. MMMMMMMMM , well maybe an
amber celadon.....
Stefano in the still hot and humid Gump, sometime called Montgomery
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: icey porcelain
> In a message dated 9/5/01 5:14:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> melpots@PCLINK.COM writes:
>
> > and i do not like making pots from `baby phoo`.
> >
> > Fresh from the frustration of "handling" a set of 4 porcelain mugs, I
must
> > echo the sentiment and say there is nothing worse than pulling handles
> > from, and attaching them to, baby poo! I will try to remember this and
> > reach for the stoneware next time I feel the urge to mug.
> >
> > Nancy in Cincinnati
>
>
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Paul Taylor on thu 6 sep 01
Dear Mel
Sounds like someone at the factory got defloculant in the clay - It would
not be the first time .
From The reading of some posts, am I to gather that we are spoilt in
this part of the world ( NW Europe) with the quality of our the materials ?
(especially the china clay and feldspars).
Regards from Paul Taylor
http://www.anu.ie/westportpottery
Alchemy is the proof that economics is not a science.
> From: mel jacobson
> Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 03:58:33 -0500
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: icey porcelain
>
> funny stuff.
> i have a bag to throw.
> susan karrisch is working with it.
> she has found:
>
> you can make a plate with it...(and she knows how
> to make great plates with clay...)
> come back the next day and the rims are flat on the table.
>
> it does not dry the same as clay. it forms a thin crust and remains
> wet inside.
>
> the trimmings take days to dry.
> it acts not as clay, but as something else.
> beyond thixenthropic...it is like hard, and if you drop
> the bag it becomes liquid.
> strange stuff.
> makes me nervous.
> smmooooth...very smmooooth.
> and i do not like making pots from `baby phoo`.
> any way what the hell do i know.
> funny stuff.
> mel
> From:
> Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
> web site: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
>
Rick Monteverde on thu 6 sep 01
Mel wrote:
>funny stuff.
Is this that Australian material - "Southern Ice"?
- Rick Monteverde
Honolulu, HI
Ron Roy on fri 7 sep 01
Same clay I use most of the time - we call it HHP up here.
RR
>I have been using Axners Norma's porcelain for about two years now and love
>it. Yes sometimes it is like baby phoo, but then you learn to just let it
>sit for a little time uncovered. Attaching handles etc are no problems, I
>do check them on a daily basis but figured that is all part of the process.
>I like the end results, I like the way the glaze fits to the body, the depth
>you get with oxide washes, and there is nothing sexier that a great copper
>red against a deep black temmoku over porcelain. MMMMMMMMM , well maybe an
>amber celadon.....
>Stefano in the still hot and humid Gump, sometime called Montgomery
Ron Roy
RR# 4
15084 Little Lake Rd..
Brighton,
Ontario, Canada
KOK 1H0
Residence 613-475-9544
Studio 613-475-3715
Fax 613-475-3513
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