John Baymore on sat 26 jul 03
Toni,
Came across a 40 mesh sieve that someone told me I needed when I first
started pottery in 1980. Anyone know what its used for? John Hesselberth=
suggested a paperweight!:) Just wondered if you knew.
Hi. I use a 40 to sieve my wood ash before using it to weigh out into
glaze batches. All the usual health caveats.......... .
best,
............john
John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
22 Riverbend Way
Wilton, NH 03086-5812 USA
JBaymore@compuserve.com
http://www.JohnBaymore.com
603-654-2752 (studio)
800-900-1110 (studio)
"Earth, Water, and Fire Noborigama Woodfiring Workshop: August 15-24,
2003"
Steve Mills on sun 27 jul 03
Use it to sieve stoneware glazes; that's about as fine as I sieve for
stoneware (if I feel like sieving them at all!), else I lose some of the
coarser lumps of stuff that make glazes interesting, after all at that
temperature (tho' maybe not at ^6) most stuff melts :-)
Steve
making simplicity more of a watchword in
Bath
UK
!
In message , Toni Smith writes
>Hi Claypals, I am getting back into my studio slowly, and decided to reorganize
>a little. Came across a 40 mesh sieve that someone told me I needed when I first
>started pottery in 1980. Anyone know what its used for? John Hesselberth
>suggested a paperweight!:) Just wondered if you knew. Toni Smith in Ohio, so
>happy to be working with my clay again.
--
Steve Mills
Bath
UK
Roger Korn on sun 27 jul 03
Steve Mills wrote:
>Use it to sieve stoneware glazes; ...
>
I use a 40's sieve to collect organic "sinkers" in locally dug clay that
is being refined by levigation (pouring stirred thin
slip between buckets), rather than sieving.
Roger
>--
>Steve Mills
>Bath
>UK
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Logan Oplinger on wed 30 jul 03
Hello Toni, and list,
After sieving reclaimed clay through a 20 mesh sieve to remove trash, I use
a 40 mesh sieve as the second sieving step to reclaim/recycle used clay
that may contain bits of limestone or plaster. Any passing through 40 mesh
has caused no problems for me. Most of the clay I use contains 60 mesh
grog/sand, but occasionally larger mesh size. The 40 mesh removes the
larger particles of grit, and produces a nicer clay body.
The 40 mesh sieve, as others have said here, allows larger particles of
glaze materials to pass, which helps produce glazes with greater variation
in color.
Logan Oplinger
Another Pacific Island
13.28'27"N Lat., 144.44'52"E Long.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:54:29 -0500, Toni Smith wrote:
>Hi Claypals, I am getting back into my studio slowly, and decided to
reorganize a little. Came across a 40 mesh sieve that someone told me I
needed when I first started pottery in 1980. Anyone know what its used for?
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