The Nichrome Wire Solution: An Alternative to Raku Tongs Makes Raku Firing Large or Lidded Pots Easy
After the Paul Soldner video last Friday, I decided I would go on a bit of a raku kick here. … Read More
Tag: solution
A liquid mix where the components are fully dissolved (as in a water/soda ash solution for vapor-glazing), where materials will not settle out via gravity. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Slipware Marbleizing
Marbled dish, Italian slipware, ca. 1620-1640 (from the Chipstone Foundation collection). Photo credits (unless otherwise noted): Ceramics in America, photographer, … Read More
Converting an Electric Kiln for Wood and Gas Firing, Part 2
On Monday, Bruce Bowers explained his process for converting an old electric kiln into a gas and wood-fire kiln.
Today, as … Read More
Using Slip Casting, Handbuilding, Press Molding and Throwing Techniques to Create Complex Sculptures
Ceramic artist Valerie Zimany shares her process for combining cast, thrown and handbuilt parts.
When One Technique Just Won’t Do
Today we … Read More
Readers Chime In: More Pottery Uses for Old Credit Cards and Other Quick Tips for the Clay Studio
I received a few responses to the request I sent out the other day for more tips on recycling credit … Read More
Ergonomic Glaze Storage: Save Your Back and Minimize Studio Clean-Up Time
Today’s tip comes to us from ceramic artist Jeannean Hibbitts at Spider Hole Pottery in Astoria, Oregon. I thought Jeannean’s … Read More
Low-Tech Silk Screens: An Easy Way to Repeat Images on Ceramic Art
Today’s feature comes to us from Ceramic Arts Daily subscriber C.A. Sanger of Waterville, Kansas. She was inspired to send … Read More
Multi-Purpose Chucks: Using Household Items When Trimming Difficult-to-Trim Pottery
At some point or another many potters are faced with a conundrum: their creativity goes unchecked and they artfully fashion … Read More
Wax On, Wax Off
Anyone who has ever struggled with unwieldy glazing tongs or dropped a piece into the glaze bucket because they lost … Read More
Replaceable Bat Pin Inserts
This Tip of the Week comes to us from Jim Wylder of Lake Oswego, Oregon. Jim got tired of the … Read More
