Ron Roy on wed 2 mar 05
Hi Daniel,
Now you have me thinking - Your nose will tell you before you feel it - if
it's well aged.
I have not done the testing but there will be different factors - how much
and what kind of organics to feed the bacteria, temperature, and starter
(aged clay.)
If there is sodium leaking from a material you need to counter that because
it will go the wrong way (deflocculate) - in that case use a flocculator
like Epsom.
The right amount of water and the right temperature with some "starter"
should do the work within weeks I would think - especially if you so some
wedging or pugging a couple of times to entrain some oxygen to keep the
right kind of bacteria reproducing. It's their byproducts that so the
flocculating I think.
Best regards Daniel - RR
If Robert Tichane is to be believed it should be that
>most progress will be seen in the first week or two. After that, diminishing
>returns. Of course, if the oriental potters who handed/hand down clay
>generation to generation are correct I could be at this a while :) So have you
>ever done testing of this sort ? Did it reveal a good ballpark age to shoot for
>? Should we be thinking of aging bodies in terms of months or years or is
>several weeks enough ? I think it was either Cardew or Leach (probably Cardew,
>haven't read Leach in a while) who commented, that one should get a pipeline
>going so that initially you might not have aged clay to work with but, once you
>got it going you'd always have it, so long as you kept making clay regularly
>and well before you needed it.
Ron Roy
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