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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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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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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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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Slippin' and slidin'
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Troy porcelain slip over Standard 182 body
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A pound mug from last summer's wood firing
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