Published Articles - How-to
These are the articles I currently have published is Pottery Making Illustrated.
- Ceramic Gumball Machine, “Feeding the Habit”, November/December 2008
- The Pancaker II, “The Pancaker”, May/June 2009
- “Classic American Butter Dish” November/December 2009
There’s also a video.
Video(s)
- “Making Square Mugs” - on YouTube (lol, made prior to standing to throw…)
- A video of the firing and an unloading of the Cane Creek Kiln (13 hours condensed to 6 minutes).
- “Making a Classic American Butterdish” - on YouTube (goes with the article for PMI above)
Ceramic Decals
- My original blog post from December 2007 (it’s kinda outdated though…)
- Pronto Plate Lithography (color decals, still experimenting)
- DecalPaper.com - source for decal paper (they say not to fire with it, but it’s a ok in my book)
- I use a HP 1020 Black and White Laser Printer… (the older the HP laser printer the better
- Decals over Cone 10 glazes - fire to cone 04-6
- Decals over Cone 6 glazes - fire to cone 04-1
- Decals over Cone 05 glazes - fire to cone 012 (haven’t actually done it yet though…)
- Other resources:
Commercial Ceramic Decals
Linda Arbuckle’s Laser Print Decals Handout (PDF)
Kiln Building
Blog posts are in chronological order so they make sense. I’ve built 3 kilns so far. These posts show in progress photos and information on firings etc.
Jack Doherty’s Soda Kiln from Tudball’s book “Soda Glazing”
- “So it begins again” The post where I decide to build it.
- “Beginning Pics of Kiln Building” The foundation, arch etc.
- “Getting Burners” From Mark Ward at Ward Burner Systems…
- “Brother Soulshine I love your show!” Casting the arch with homemade castable
- “Homemade Castable Shopping List” Nuff said
- “She Stands!” Removing the Arch form.
- “I can almost smell the soda combusting” Door blocks and chimney
- “Finishing Up” Piping the gas, etc…
- “First Firing” a failure…
- “Second Firing” if at first you don’t succeed…
- “Third Firing” third times the charm…. mmmm soda…
- “Making Dirty Dishwasher Safe” another good load…
- “A convo with Homefry” some sage advice from Kyle Houser.
- “Yunomi, I know You” Some soda fired Yunomis
- “Autopsy Report: Homemade Castable Kiln” Yep, I destroyed it, knocked it down on purpose. Here is what I learned…
Cane Creek Kiln - a Fast Fire 32 from Olsen’s book, slightly modified to fit a gas kiln I bought.
- “Kiln Shed Complete” I got smart and built a shed for this one.
- “Cane Creek Kiln” kiln plans and info…
- “New Kiln Progress” the foundation and fireboxes
- “Kiln Progress” The arch
- “Kiln Update - the optimist says the kiln is half full” Kiln is done, welded grates and rake. Starting to fill with pots.
- “First Firing a Success!” Nuff said
- “The day after” a kiln firing, help from friends…
- “Pleased” some favorite pots from a firing.
- I occassionally webcast a firing live (you can watch live video). Stay tuned on the blog for updates on the next webcast.
- A video of the firing and an unloading of the Cane Creek Kiln (13 hours condensed to 6 minutes).
The Suburban Soda Kiln - A small cross draft soda kiln.
- “The Suburban Soda Kiln: Part One: The Why?” … where I try to sound like I know what I am talking about.
- “The Suburban Soda Kiln: Part Two: The What?” … plans, building etc.
- “Post Firing ReductionSlipScraffito-ism” The first pots from the Suburban.
- “Cramming it in…” More pots and some tests from another potter…
- “Sharing and caring…” Recipes from the above post…
Blogs and Websites…
These are links to blogs a regularly follow and websites I try to keep current on…
- MudStuffing.com - self serving I know, but if the site is “self upadting” anytime I blog, post to flickr, twitter, or add items to my etsy shop, the website is automatically updated with the new content. You can download my code for free (use with Adobe Flash CS4) here.
- Kyle Houser - yes I know, I’ve got quite the pottery crush on homey’s pots…
- Michael Kline - a blogging empire in of itself!
- Emily Murphy - Currently she is in transit, but blog is choc full of great soda firing info. We miss you emily!
- Salt Soda Ning Social Network
- Ceramic Arts Daily - I subscribe to their email newsletter, great resource from the people who bring you Ceramics Monthly.
- Etsy Mud Team - A group of potters very near and dear to my heart.
- Ceramic Twitter people I follow (there’s duplicates in here I think) : @circaceramics @whitneyspottery @arthurhalvorsen @Potterchik @mugmkr @glynt @juditavill @klineola @grrrissa @lurearts @clayartwebguide @caroleepp @misslo @Claytastic @sofiasdad @pcNielsen @OrrPottery @tlgcritter @CharanSachar @thebrokenplate @JDWolfePottery @CircaCeramics @jeffcampana @webbpots @ceramicerin @akardesign @mudstuffing @brian_harper @matt_davesclays @fetishghost
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