Dan Palmer
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I can't take credit but thanks. Basically no flux other than neph sye. Here's the recipe. Super simple
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I can't take credit but thanks. Basically no flux other than neph sye. Here's the recipe. Super simple
I used this little pouring bowl to test a new shino glaze that doesn't use lithium or spodumene (which are very expensive these days due to the Li-ion battery industry taking it all). It's a whiter white than many shinos which are often kinda grey white.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
They do tend to flow down into the bottom of things. I like it on tea bowls and fruit bowls etc. But you don't want it on everything.
This was nice from the last firing. But it has some little lumps in the glaze so I'm keeping it :)
This was nice from the last firing. But it has some little lumps in the glaze so I'm keeping it :)
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
They do tend to flow down into the bottom of things. I like it on tea bowls and fruit bowls etc. But you don't want it on everything.
This was nice from the last firing. But it has some little lumps in the glaze so I'm keeping it :)
This was nice from the last firing. But it has some little lumps in the glaze so I'm keeping it :)
I have tried various recipes for the famous Japanese nuka glaze. It's a white that is traditionally made with rice husk ash, which I can't get. Using silica and other ingredients instead, this is by far the best attempt yet. I formulated it myself using an analysis of RH ash.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not my normal style but quite a nice bottle from the recent firing. Two ash glazes. The base glaze has been scorched by the flame and gone semi-volcanic. One of those unexpected gifts from the kiln. More often the kiln kicks you hard in the ass, hehe.
C10 gas redux
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C10 gas redux
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November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My first attempt at making a tea bowl with inclusions of feldspar in the clay. It doesn't make throwing easy!
There's shino glaze inside the bowl, and a mineral wash and sprinkles of wood ash outside. I think I am pretty close to the wood-fired look (but in a gas kiln).
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There's shino glaze inside the bowl, and a mineral wash and sprinkles of wood ash outside. I think I am pretty close to the wood-fired look (but in a gas kiln).
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November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The large moon jar I showed when still wet clay is fired and I couldn't be happier.
It's got a nice shino glaze and sifted wood ash over the shoulders that have produced green drips like you can get in a wood firing.
It's up on my Etsy now. Sadly I still can't sell to the US.
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It's got a nice shino glaze and sifted wood ash over the shoulders that have produced green drips like you can get in a wood firing.
It's up on my Etsy now. Sadly I still can't sell to the US.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yes it was a close call. I had this one too 😂 Thank you!
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Yes it was a close call. I had this one too 😂 Thank you!
I had a really good gas firing last night. I lucked out with maybe the last mild evening of the year. Winter is coming...
Here's one of my recent agate ware tea bowls (thrown with layers of different clays) covered in a wood ash glaze. You can just make out the clay beneath.
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Here's one of my recent agate ware tea bowls (thrown with layers of different clays) covered in a wood ash glaze. You can just make out the clay beneath.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today.
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
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I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today.
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
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I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
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A rutile blue yunomi tea cup that got a bit oxidised on one side. It's still pretty.
No blue pigments are used in this glaze.
Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron.
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No blue pigments are used in this glaze.
Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A tea bowl for matcha or whichever beverage you most enjoy. Inspired by Japanese chawans. Shino glazed/reduction fired.
I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!)
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I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!)
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September 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6.
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
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Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
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September 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6.
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
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Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
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The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing.
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
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Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing.
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
Bit of a wild one from last night's gas firing. But it looks wood fired, right?
It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures.
Cone ten/1300C
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It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures.
Cone ten/1300C
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September 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US.
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US.
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...