A few favorites from the most recent firing! All local clay; left to right we have our waste granite glaze, two tea dust tenmoku, and our rutile glaze

Cone 10 here we come!

Firing the TDI downdraft kiln; this is nearing cone 10; the kiln is kept in slight reduction as indicated by the flames from the peeps and chimney

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Loading the kiln; these pots dried out too much before glazing, which can result in more pinholes. But fingers crossed! There are some rutile, Shino, teadust, and granite glazes in this load.

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My local clay has tons of iron in it. As in triple the iron content of RedArt. Here is some of the sand/pebble mixture I sieved out of this batch. The magnet pulls out literal nuggets of iron ore.
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The year starts off with making clay; this is a blen of local North Carolina red clay, EPK, and North Carolina feldspar. Here are the raw materials being mixed; over the next few weeks I’ll sieve and dry it out to a working consistency.

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