Working Potter on mon 31 mar 03
Excellent advice, Tony, but remember floor tiles have very strict standards
that all in some way are related to avoiding a customer's not slipping and
taking a fall, especially when wetted.Surface slickness, more and hardness
are part of those standards.If handmade tile are incorporated, they must be
out of the traffic pattern I would assume.
This is one of the ''fold 'em'' ones in my book.
In a message dated 3/31/2003 3:34:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
clennell@VAXXINE.COM writes:
> . Why not suggest a majority of Home
> Depot tiles with the inclusion of some handmade and hand decorated tiles as
> accent pieces.
> Otherwise, this tile job might well be given the words of advice sung by
> Kenny Rogers in the Gambler. Know when to hold them, know when to fold
> them
> and know when to walk away.
> Even, firing 600 12 x 12 tiles in a electric kiln in the basement to cone
> 10 sounds like Mission Impossible. My shelves are 16 x 32 and I have
> twenty
> of them.I'd get two of your tiles to a shelf which means I'd fire 40 in a
> firing. that's fifteen firings in a mid size gas kiln. That's at 100%
> success rate which never happens expecially on commissions. I only fire it
> 25 times a year.
> Potters would be outta their minds to go head to head with tile
> companies.
> Help your customer source the tiles and then suggest you make accent pieces
> for the hall, her kitchen whatever. Leave the tiles for the off shore
> gang.
> cheers,
> Tony
>
>
Anji Henderson on mon 31 mar 03
Tony you are too funny.. And also right..
Who ever wrote the origional post for this reply could
you e-mail me off list.
Anji
Vual7@yahoo.com
--- clennell wrote:
> Sour Cherry Pottery
>
> > Hey All!
> >
> > I'm desperately hunting for tiles that I can glaze
> and fire to cone 10 for a
> > client in these here parts. They'd be for a
> hallway floor, so no warping is
> > allowed. It's amazing that no one carries them
> anymore. I've approached
> > several people about doing them (some of them on
> Clayart, so sorry if they've
> > already been asked about), and it seems like they
> are really impossible to
> > find. Tile manufacturers don't have them (or, at
> least, they're not selling
> > them).
>
> Julie: I have glazed kiln shelves for larger
> absolutely non warped tiles,
> but for $3 this would not be my plan of attack.
> Since the customer wants
> you be part of her dream tile job. Why not suggest
> a majority of Home
> Depot tiles with the inclusion of some handmade and
> hand decorated tiles as
> accent pieces.
> Otherwise, this tile job might well be given the
> words of advice sung by
> Kenny Rogers in the Gambler. Know when to hold
> them, know when to fold them
> and know when to walk away.
> Even, firing 600 12 x 12 tiles in a electric kiln
> in the basement to cone
> 10 sounds like Mission Impossible. My shelves are
> 16 x 32 and I have twenty
> of them.I'd get two of your tiles to a shelf which
> means I'd fire 40 in a
> firing. that's fifteen firings in a mid size gas
> kiln. That's at 100%
> success rate which never happens expecially on
> commissions. I only fire it
> 25 times a year.
> Potters would be outta their minds to go head to
> head with tile companies.
> Help your customer source the tiles and then suggest
> you make accent pieces
> for the hall, her kitchen whatever. Leave the tiles
> for the off shore gang.
> cheers,
> Tony
>
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clennell on tue 1 apr 03
Sour Cherry Pottery
> Hey All!
>
> I'm desperately hunting for tiles that I can glaze and fire to cone 10 for a
> client in these here parts. They'd be for a hallway floor, so no warping is
> allowed. It's amazing that no one carries them anymore. I've approached
> several people about doing them (some of them on Clayart, so sorry if they've
> already been asked about), and it seems like they are really impossible to
> find. Tile manufacturers don't have them (or, at least, they're not selling
> them).
Julie: I have glazed kiln shelves for larger absolutely non warped tiles,
but for $3 this would not be my plan of attack. Since the customer wants
you be part of her dream tile job. Why not suggest a majority of Home
Depot tiles with the inclusion of some handmade and hand decorated tiles as
accent pieces.
Otherwise, this tile job might well be given the words of advice sung by
Kenny Rogers in the Gambler. Know when to hold them, know when to fold them
and know when to walk away.
Even, firing 600 12 x 12 tiles in a electric kiln in the basement to cone
10 sounds like Mission Impossible. My shelves are 16 x 32 and I have twenty
of them.I'd get two of your tiles to a shelf which means I'd fire 40 in a
firing. that's fifteen firings in a mid size gas kiln. That's at 100%
success rate which never happens expecially on commissions. I only fire it
25 times a year.
Potters would be outta their minds to go head to head with tile companies.
Help your customer source the tiles and then suggest you make accent pieces
for the hall, her kitchen whatever. Leave the tiles for the off shore gang.
cheers,
Tony
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