mel jacobson on wed 15 feb 06
remember, there are all kinds of wood fuel kilns.
all sizes and shapes.
one person can fire a wood fuel kiln
if you make it to do such.
don't confuse 800 cubic feet anangamas with
a small `fast freddie`.
david fires his own kiln because he has designed
a kiln to be fired with one person. and it is not
a tiny kiln..it is a production kiln. and don't confuse
a new potter trying to build a kiln with david...the consummate
professional.
elizabeth has a great idea to fire to cone 6 with
her own glazes. she can do that without any suffering.
she has a source of free wood. we are going to work
out a plan together.
no big deal.
lowell in alabama has one of the neatest wood fired kilns
i have ever seen...he fires it from a lawn chair.
he injects sawdust. has a cord with an on/off switch.
fills a hopper and sits and flips the switch. i have seen
him melt kiln shelves in that kiln. hot sucker.
we have built several small versions of wood kilns at the farm.
they work. one person could fire them. hob kilns tend to be
easy to work with one person.
so. there are many ideas, many ways of doing things. it just
takes passion and serious interest. does not matter if you
are man or woman...just serious intent. and of course an
attitude that `i can adjust to anything`.
nil's gorilla glue will not work at all. he left out the most
important ingredient...`baby urine`. and best collected
from natural cotton diapers.` `huggies` mining is not the
way to do it, plastic contaminates. it has a great deal to
do with `uratic interaction with molecular interfacing`. that is
U6+aol2=comcast inversion.
mel
from mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://my.pclink.com/~melpots3
Elizabeth Priddy on wed 15 feb 06
By the time you reach a certain age,
you know what you like and what you
are like.
I lead well, teach well, but am a poor
follower and not a great "team player".
things get invented because there is a need.
I have a need for a certain kind of firing, not
a group effort because the 'committee' it takes
to fire an 800 cubic foot kiln would simply kill
the adventure for me. If I get a wild hair and decide
to introduce salt at a certain point, the cries and
whines of people who have five pieces in there they
have to match to the last five pieces they did
two years ago...they would fall on deaf ears, and
then *I* would be the @#$hole.
you see, if you know yourself, really know yourself
well...you eventually begin to see things like that
coming and you adjust your life to fit you rather
than adjusting you to fit life.
I was fully engaged when I participated in firing
a kiln over a week long, joyous process. I could
not have handpicked the people involved better.
they were fantastic. And still, there are a few hours
of my life that I can't get back where the kiln had
stalled and the current crop couldn't decide what
to do and wouldn't just go ask the only person who
really knew, the owner of the kiln. About three
hours to be specific. And as beautiful as the pots
were that came out and as fun as the week was,
I still remember that three hours first when I revisit
the experience.
my small mid-fire wood kiln is a derivative. All the
things I liked about it, without the bickering. And
will I invite people to fire it with me? Yes, of course!
But will I *need* them to fire it? not so much. So
whenever I have a batch of pots to mess with, I
can just crank it up and crank it out.
I think mel gets this and sees me as a kindred
spirit. And when I get this kiln to work as well as
the chimney kiln works, I will gladly share the
details. And that's when, not if. If I let kibbitzing
over whether it can or should even exist stop me,
I would already be done and sipping lemonade...
E
You could say I don't play well with others,
or you could say I am a maverick. Just
depends how much you like me. And for those
that I have taught, they have said I was a
compassionate and generous person. The
short list of people that know me real well
know that my problem with groups is an
intrinsic perfectionism that sees compromised
projects and just can't deal with the chaos.
I can't stand to see a working project go to hell
because everybody involved wants to piss on
it a little just to mark it as their own. Years
in academia showed me that this is a universal
trait of humans, everyone involved needs to
leave a mark to feel good about the work they
did. Natural. And enough to drive me nuts,
and away from projects like that
mel jacobson wrote:
remember, there are all kinds of wood fuel kilns.
all sizes and shapes.
elizabeth has a great idea to fire to cone 6 with
her own glazes. she can do that without any suffering.
she has a source of free wood. we are going to work
out a plan together.
no big deal.
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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