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Clay Flambé
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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
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cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
The Lobstergama this morning, after the snow
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
The Lobstergama, a two-chamber wood-fired ceramics kiln, with wood storage to the left. The kiln consists of two chambers: an anagama-shaped chamber in front, followed by a smaller catenary-arch chamber, like those in a noborigama kiln, at right angles to the first chamber. The kiln's chambers are largely obscured by the chimney, which is as tall as the kiln is long, and the shadows cast by the kiln shed roof. Apart from the nine cords of wood in the rectangular rick, there's another three cords in two beehive stacks out of sight. All told, enough to fire the Lobstergama two, maybe three times
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
Slippin' and slidin'
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Troy porcelain slip over Standard 182 body
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
A stoneware mug with a surface altered by a roller and ribs, no glaze on the exterior, just slip
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
They say you can't be too thin
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Oh yes you can
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
Trimmed this Troy porcelain mug blank too soon and hence too much. Cut it in half to be see exactly what went wrong Can't tell jack from the outside Or much from the bottom Ah, there. Too much taken from inside the foot ring and right outside it. I obviously wanted to have a deeper foot while turning it, but threw too close to the bat for that, at least if/when trimming soft. Have to remember to leave a good half inch at the bottom for these
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
Four slightly-altered mug blanks, freshly thrown from Troy porcelain, resting on a few yellow pages from a telephone book (remember those?), on a wareboard, atop a wire shelving unit Four just-pulled handles for attaching the mugs in the previous snap
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
Steve Witkoff really is a Dim Philby
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
A more or less straight-sided greenware mug, sitting on a wooden wareboard. The mug was thrown from Troy porcelain, handled, then impressed with a stamp and brushed with a simple, somewhat cattail-like motif. Used a cobalt-free black mason stain because cobalt tends to run/bleed and turn blue in a woodfire. (I'd rather it stay black, but if the iron in the stain makes it turn brown, that's less objectionable than blue) Like the previous mug, but here the brushwork is just a couple of nondescript flowering somethings. Don't much care for the larger of the two somethings. I'll leave it to the kiln to address my dislike. Maybe it will do me a kindness and obliterate it with a layer of ash
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
Five leather-hard mugs thrown from Troy aligned on ware boards on a wire metal shelf. The three closest were impressed with a commercial roller and altered further with ribs and various mark makers Not the Chunnel
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Attempted prison break
Sir Walter Ralegh wishes to go shopping
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
A pound mug from last summer's wood firing
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
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
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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
Three pottery wheels inside a pottery I built 2½ years ago, in front of a black utility shelving unit on which 50 lb boxes of bagged clay are now stored. A few partial bags sit on the floor to the right, waiting to be heaved up top of the shelves Yellow utility shelving unit at the front of the pottery, on which buckets of glaze are now stored Four kilo bowls thrown from Troy porcelain this afternoon. I make around 200 pots over the cold months. Come late spring I'll fire them in my combo anagama/noborigama wood kiln for 3½ days, along with another 300 or so pots thrown or hand built by other potters
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
cleanmuddauber.bsky.social
First autumn snow
Snow on dead ferns under birch and pine trees, with a gun blue overcast sky above
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM