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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 6d

Just had to cancel a pottery order to the US because a) Trump did away with the tariff exemption on small items, b) my post office is not shipping to the US because of the tariffs, and c) the US is apparently destroying packages at customs.

What a f*cked up situation.

#pottery #ceramics #art

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 8d

The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today.

I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.

#ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 8d

Today I have been making a pottery paddle with the CNC machine I bought for just this purpose 2 years ago!

These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle.

www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/

#ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking

danpalmerceramics on Instagram: "I bought this CNC mill two years ago to do just this. I'm making a pottery paddle with which to decorate pots. You give the clay a …"

I bought this CNC mill two years ago to do just this. I'm making a pottery paddle with which to decorate pots. You give the clay a slap and the pattern is imprinted.The CNC can easily do things that would be very hard with hand tools.I'm also loving my name for this potential product! 😄#pottery #ceramics #cnc #potterytools #woodworking

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 19d

A rutile blue yunomi tea cup that got a bit oxidised on one side. It's still pretty.

No blue pigments are used in this glaze.
Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron.

#ceramics #pottery #keramik #keramika #poterie #yunomi #tea

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 20d

A tea bowl for matcha or whichever beverage you most enjoy. Inspired by Japanese chawans. Shino glazed/reduction fired.

I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!)

#pottery #ceramics #tea #chawan

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 21d

It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6.

Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).

#ceramics

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 23d

These mixing/pouring bowls came out pretty great.
A wood ash-based chun glaze over a tea dust tenmoku glaze.
Fired in gas reduction to cone 10/1300ish.

#ceramics #pottery #glazes #clayart #kitchen #cooking

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 23d

Etsy AI be like:

Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.

Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 24d

Yes it's quite dismaying. My first year on Etsy wasn't amazing but a reasonable start. Then since Trump II, sales almost stopped. Even before the the tariffs. I'd like to sell on my own site but I haven't been able to build up enough followers. Meta only shows pics to friends. It seems better here.

Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 24d

Fixed!

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks Chris! I will look at the links now

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OldeHippi🦋 @oldehippi.bsky.social · 24d

Tyelenol?! What about nanoplastics?????.

"...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."

Plastic particles in bottled water

Researchers developed an imaging technique that detected thousands of tiny bits of plastic in common single-use bottles of water.

www.nih.gov

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 24d

A simple tea cup, but the things that went into making it just so are not so simple.

Yellow iron glaze, high fired in gas reduction to 1300C. Speckled stoneware clay.

It's quite big. Will hold a mug's worth of liquid.

#ceramics #pottery #tea

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 24d

The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing.

Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.

It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.

#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you again @oldehippi.bsky.social and @madsciencepottery.bsky.social !

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · 27d

Bit of a wild one from last night's gas firing. But it looks wood fired, right?

It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures.

Cone ten/1300C

#pottery #poterie #ceramics #keramika #keramik #ashglaze

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 11

Great to hear!

Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 11

So many people supporting me! It's a lovely experience

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you so much @oldehippi.bsky.social !

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 10

So true.
I've not had such a nice reaction on other platforms. Bluesky feels different

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 10

@craftiverse.bsky.social @mb-pottery.com @madsciencepottery.bsky.social

Thanks so much for your support! Means a lot

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 10

#ceramics #pottery #tariffs

Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 10

The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US.

To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.

Maybe you'd like to have a look.

www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 10

I trimmed the pots from the last post. They are drying now before their first firing.

#ceramics #pottery

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Dan Palmer @danpalmerceramics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Saving up stock till the day the US government falls 😅