Baking dishes and some un-handles mugs. The wheel makes a nice table.
Greenware rack.
I have gotten my hands on a bag of Helmer Kaolin...a material that's hard to come across in Texas. I plan to do a bunch of tests with it but I went ahead and mixed a small batch of 70/30 kaolin/neph.sy. with 1% redart. I brushed it onto a couple of leatherhard bowls in a state that I didn't think was too thick. The slip is cracking at leatherhard which worries me a bit...clearly some high shrinkage. That's ok, I'll figure it all out.
Cheers!
3 comments:
Pots look great. I really like your baking dishes. Are you solely using the treadle wheel now?
yeah, every pot here is off the treadle wheel. I haven't done anything more than about 5#s on that wheel yet...i think i could handle up to maybe 10 or 12#s but beyond that i think the flywheel(pine) is too light which someone had warned me about previously. i thought about adding weights to it but i'm worried about upsetting the balance. i'm going to build a new flywheel in oct. or nov. i have a bunch of heavy, thick live oak sitting around, time to put it to good use.
yeah, that helmar cracks where thick. it can be really nice though. keep crankin'!
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