JeffS73
Chumono
I use a bag for a few days, opening it for an hour a day. Then I do what Sorce recommended, I put a single sheet of newspaper over the pot and this seems to slow down drying and even it out. All clays are different though!
Kanorin's chunks of fired mud
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Colorado
Masterpiece
I’ll have to try that newspaper trick!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Dang Kanorin...
I missed this!
Almost everything I was going to help you out with, other kind and wise potters have chimed in about.
I love the progress!
Have you, perchance seem @sorce s YouTube Videos on slab construction.... They really changed my game at an important time.
I can link them, here, if you've not seen.
I missed this!
Almost everything I was going to help you out with, other kind and wise potters have chimed in about.
I love the progress!
Have you, perchance seem @sorce s YouTube Videos on slab construction.... They really changed my game at an important time.
I can link them, here, if you've not seen.
Kanorin
Omono
Link away please!
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Thank you!!
Kanorin
Omono
This pot from a few weeks ago finally got fired…turned out pretty cool.
Kanorin
Omono
Today I finished up my biggest and most ambitious rectangle. A landscape pot around 15x7.5 inches. I started it last week and then wrapped it up to let it dry evenly and slowly.
It did.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Good job! Now your getting it!
Looks like your seams are looking much better, too.
Be careful with that extra clay for inner seams .. too much clay piled up (clay depending) in those corners, and your faces can possibly pull too much.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Also... If you are feeling adventurous...
You can take a rib or flat, straight piece, and pull over those edges a few times (inner and outer), at 40-60degrees..
This will define your edge (make it "crisp") and create a UNIFORM edge, systemically.
You can take a rib or flat, straight piece, and pull over those edges a few times (inner and outer), at 40-60degrees..
This will define your edge (make it "crisp") and create a UNIFORM edge, systemically.
Kanorin
Omono
Thanks for the tip. It makes sense now that I think about it!Good job! Now your getting it!
Looks like your seams are looking much better, too.
Be careful with that extra clay for inner seams .. too much clay piled up (clay depending) in those corners, and your faces can possibly pull too much.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
It's like... Micro planing the edges
...
If you don't want super crisp you can use a rounded edge...
I have a tool with both! I bet you could find something like it, at your local dollar store.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I was actually doing some edges and decided to take some pictures during a "pass"...
To help put actual imagery to my statements.
Plane em down...
Smooth em out...
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
(lately I've been building structures INTO my pots 
)
Soon I will start documenting my greenware for spring!
)Soon I will start documenting my greenware for spring!
Kanorin
Omono
Got a few more pieces back. Everything is fired in a gas kiln at the co-op, by the way.
Little accent planter I made with some scrap clay.
Little accent planter I made with some scrap clay.
Kanorin
Omono
Two more accent pots:
Kanorin
Omono
This one did not turn out as expected…but I kinda like it. It looks like a piece of old oxidized copper.
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