mel jacobson on sun 5 jan 03
it was so interesting when doing the `black shino`
article to have malcolm davis give me about 40 of his
best recipes for `american shino`. he had been collecting
them for years. he just dropped them in the mail and there
they were.
then to have tom buck look at them, do the math and
conclude.....`there are basically two recipes here, with
some small changes with oxides...iron etc.`
so, from that 40 it meant that they were basically
all the same. slight variation for local materials, some
changes in the math, but in the end, mostly the same.
( i also conclude that the soda ash amounts are critical.
i have gone to 18 percent. and it works great.)
girded with all that information, all of those recipes,
i still cannot make malcolm davis shino. nothing ever
looks like his. ( he makes wonderful pots.) in the end, i am
just grateful that he trusted me to give out that information
to the world, and have people, have a go at it.
cm published about 30 of those ideas.
what would make malcolm and me cranky is if someone
used that information, then republished it as their own
research. you know,`the final word on shino from wally johnson.`
when you look at what malcolm has done, dannon from nils has
done with soda ash, application techniques that pete pinnell has done,
well it is staggering. it is all out there for the taking.
when i started my research into shino, it was based on getting the
word out that ginny wirt had started it all. we helped get that done.
since then i have become friends with hank murrow, know how he
does shino. (amazing work.) the list is long, and they all give freely
the information.
my last thought about shino is:
`how do i take all that information and make pots that look
like i made them`. that is the task.
mel
i would love to get a post on clayart that said:
`anyone know what the best tools are, wheels, pug mill.?
i want to buy the best....`
cheap is the sure way to junk.
recycle, used, quality is great. but, cheap is junk.
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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