| Other potters visiting our
workshop have often shared their ideas with us, as we have
with them. This is easier to do if the information is
already set up as a computer print-out, like the pdf
documents available on this page.. If you have similar
good ideas of your own, we'd like to hear them too. |
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| Brongniart's
Formula made easy |
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page 9 kB |
W = G(L-1000)/(G-1)
Ouch. That's too
hard!
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This is a re-working of the
traditional Brongniart's formula, which deals with the
amount of dry matter suspended in a glaze or slip. Useful
when you want to add percentage amounts of another
ingredient to an already-existing glaze. |
| Make Your Own
Pottery Stamps |
12
pages 662 kB |
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Written out originally as a
submission to the magazine "Pottery Making Illustrated". |
| Water Etching... a well kept
secret |
5
pages 122 kB |
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Another article written
originally for "Pottery Making Illustrated", a bit more
detailed than the version eventually printed. |
| The Kiln Exhaust
Sniffer |
4
pages 92 kB |
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A do-it-yourself version
of an expensive oxy-probe, built for just a few
dollars using an exhaust gas oxygen sensor from a car
engine. After using one for over a hundred firings in a
gas kiln, it's hard to imagine going back to the old days
when reduction was judged by the presence of smoke and
flames. |
| Building a Pugmill |
9
pages 980 kB |
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Photographs and
measurements made during the construction of two
successful home-made pugmills. A good place to start if
you're thinking of making one too. |
| The Glaze Spraying Book |
26
pages 122 kB |
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A much larger file this
one, 25 pages of practical ideas about applying glazes
with a spray gun. |
| A Floating-Straw
Hydrometer |
1
page 48 kB |
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Instructions for making a
floating-straw hydrometer, to measure the specific gravity
of a glaze. Useful if you mix your own glazes, and
want reproducible results every time. |
| Pottery
Stencil Ideas to Share |
10
pages 290 kB |
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This is the draft of an article originally
prepared for Pottery Making Illustrated, and eventually
published in Sep/Oct 2013 under the title "Stayput
Stencils". As always, the text had to be edited and the
images re-arranged to suit the magazine layout, so the
original draft contains more information than the
published version. |
| Reverse
Engineering for the Potter |
3 pages
132 kB |
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Another article prepared for Pottery Making Illustrated, this one published in Nov/Dec 2015. A quick, simple method for calculating the "wet" dimensions required, to allow for shrinkage when making a copy of an existing pot. |
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