Hey, Bud...
How are you going to fire and to what cone, throw and/or hand build? There are lots of good clay vendors out there but they too will need to know what you want a clay to do...
pottermim
>Good Morning Everyone,
>
>A question that has been floating in and out to ask, for those who throw
>clay on the wheel.
>
>What are good throwing bodies, that you can get commercially ?
>
>Some names would help, so that I can look for them here locally, got
>Aardvark Clay about 3 miles from the house, pretty big place and lots of
>clays, only not much help when I try to ask questions or get information.
>(Some people do not take the time to deal with someone trying to find words
>fast enough to talk them, only I also understand that it is not others deal,
>to have to deal with my speech problems, thank God or is that Bill Gates for
>spell checkers)
>
>Found out that the man who was trying to hard sell me a electric wheel is
>one of the head honcho types there.
>
>Also got the retail store of Kemper Tools about 30 miles to the north in
>Chino, had to go up there to get a replacement pedal for the wheel Dennis
>loaned me (Clay Devil), they have a decent selection, although half of it is
>from Aardvark. Although they also have Laguna and a few other brands.
>
>Perhaps after I get my workspace figured out and built in the backyard, I
>can look at mixing my own. Try some of that fermenting processed clay. :-)
>
>Thank You,
>Bud
>