Clay Flambé
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Clay Flambé
@cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
Minter of NFPs (non-fungible pots)
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Wood-fired ceramics, mostly
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Mushie pics, in season
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Disobeying in advance
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Here to heckle coup plotters and collaborators
A mug and a couple tumblers thrown from 1.25 lbs of S182, a true pilsner from 1.5
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I'll be able to do the last with 1.25 after several sessions getting finger feel back after laying off making during the warm months
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Was like this centuries ago and still is
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Two tactile ideas, each thrown with 1¼ lbs
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I'll put a handle on the squat one, call it a mug
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And leave the taller one alone, almost a pilsner
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Maybe throw with a little more, for height
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This body isn't so plastic
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December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reasons for skeeting snaps of freshly-thrown pottery: It's infinitely cleaner than the Regime, harms no one, and leaves no foul after-image on your daily scroll
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Threw a couple more dinner plates yesterday evening
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Probably fire them upside down on crowns in the anagama
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Lobstergama this morning, after the snow
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December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A trick to avoid "s" cracks in the center of thrown plates: dry them slowly
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Upside down preferably, with the foot rings exposed
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That way, the center dries/shrinks first and the tension moves to the rim before spinning out into space
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Slippin' and slidin'
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Troy porcelain slip over Standard 182 body
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December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Eight more dinner plates to go with the six I threw a couple days ago
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Three have defined flanges to go with the five others like it
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The rest will go with the one other like it--or like it, once the interiors are slipped with porcelain
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A mug from the the bag wall of the second chamber a year ago
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It was the second time firing the Lobstergama, the first time firing just the second chamber
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A bad firing, but even a bad firing can produce a few wonders
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'm grateful I get to play with clay
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John Adams famously said (in pottery circles) that he studied politics and war so his grandchildren could study porcelain
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You'd think that we'd have learnt the lesson by now
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Did some minimal brushwork on four porcelain mugs I handled a couple days ago
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The trick I've found with the brush is to stop thirty seconds after you start
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That way, the damage is relatively minor
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
They say you can't be too thin
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Oh yes you can
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Got things handled at this end
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Only put thumb and pinkie rests on one
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Concerned about over embellishment
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Turned them upside down to dry, to screw gravity and keep the handles from slumping
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Minor brushwork and cat licking tomorrow
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Threw four blanks, pulled four handles
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I'll attach the latter to the former after I turn/trim the bodies, make a few stamp marks
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It's all too soft to do now
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So the parts go under cover until tomorrow
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Everything at the right time
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Steve Witkoff really is a Dim Philby
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My take on brushwork when you woodfire your pots: don't
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If you do it regardless: think aesthetic minimalism. Amor vacui. Do it three times on paper before you touch brush to clay
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Works for me, mostly, anyway
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November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Five porcelain mugs drying, along with semi-obligatory handle tunnel
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There were six, but one died when I insisted on turning/trimming it too soon
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Clay has its own schedule and it's not your schedule
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November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Attempted prison break
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Four trimmed, bone-dry Troy porcelain bowls, featuring belly buttons and foot drains
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They'll get a glaze liner before they go into the next firing, but probably nothing on the exterior, as the unadorned clay flashes nicely
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A well-sodaed bagwall mug from the second chamber
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I wasn't happy about the scar left after dremeling out the refractory kiln snot that fell into it from the arch
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Now, it's just a kiln mark/gift
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Not the same story without it
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another pound mug from this past summer's wood fire
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A little dry under the handle, but a little unadorned clay is OK
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A pound mug from last summer's wood firing
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November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A UFC cage match I'd pay to see:
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"Killer" Kilmar Armando Ábrego Garcia vs. "Orange-You-Glad-Your-Daughter-Was-Never-Alone-With" Donald John Trump
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Bill it as Illegal Alien vs. Sexual Predator
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The UFC Octagon could go inside a pyramid where the East Wing used to be
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What a nightmare
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Put together two more shelves
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One for clay--the boxes needed to be off the floor
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One for glaze buckets--they needed to be inside the pottery so they wouldn't freeze
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Finally started a new six-month making cycle with some kilo porcelain bowls
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
First autumn snow
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM