tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post7566597212578460214..comments2023-12-07T02:42:50.522-06:00Comments on Grit in the Gears: I Was Mixing...soubriquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-13325506614299422252010-05-13T22:57:10.040-05:002010-05-13T22:57:10.040-05:00I've always liked pastel colors. they are so s...I've always liked pastel colors. they are so safe. :)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706331228965193251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-2748016164815809122010-05-10T18:08:30.777-05:002010-05-10T18:08:30.777-05:00Rita: Pretty colours?
They look like ice-cream fla...Rita: Pretty colours?<br />They look like ice-cream flavours!<br />Alas, the colour of an unfired glaze is rarely much of a clue to its finished state. However, I'm expecting, if it's not too disastrous, to photograph the results.<br />At the current rate of progress, that may take a while....soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-68750222494634281272010-05-10T18:04:21.798-05:002010-05-10T18:04:21.798-05:00Kim H: Thanks for the encouragement, I'm a laz...Kim H: Thanks for the encouragement, I'm a lazy blogger, and a slow potter. <br />Real life and work get in the way.<br />But there's this guy in Iraq who wants to put $14 million in my bank account for a while, and will let me have 15% as a facilitation fee, so soon I should have a lot more free time to make pots and blog!soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-45616681179167225732010-05-07T09:23:17.627-05:002010-05-07T09:23:17.627-05:00P.S.
Ref. Saint Anthony:
Those darn Catholics are...P.S. <br />Ref. Saint Anthony:<br />Those darn Catholics are a never ending source of amusement. ;]Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706331228965193251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-29454480230279678542010-05-07T09:19:07.240-05:002010-05-07T09:19:07.240-05:00Pretty colors!
I hope you are going to give us a ...Pretty colors! <br />I hope you are going to give us a peek at the finished products. <br /><br />Losing track of important things...<br />When I got divorced, I walked away from a houseful of everything. The only thing I regret leaving behind was a box of floppy discs filled with my deepest thoughts, reminiscences, stories, etc...that I had lovingly typed & sweated over on my word processor(pre-computer days).<br />Alas, those efforts (important only to me) are gone forever, it's like losing my life's work. <br />I'll say a prayer to <a href="http://www.catholicplanet.com/articles/article137.htm" rel="nofollow">Saint Anthony</a> for ya. ;)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706331228965193251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-7019962334790674312010-05-06T10:00:04.213-05:002010-05-06T10:00:04.213-05:00just stumbled across your blog and wanted to say h...just stumbled across your blog and wanted to say hi! very entertaining reading and i love the piggy banks. :)Kim Hineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17735663073994877951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-64299124614544376872010-05-05T17:12:07.156-05:002010-05-05T17:12:07.156-05:00That little teapot in the front's embarrassing...That little teapot in the front's embarrassing. Spout too low, dammit!soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-36093490113202416992010-05-05T17:10:16.841-05:002010-05-05T17:10:16.841-05:00gz:Thank you. You understand my pain... There are ...gz:Thank you. You understand my pain... There are clay body recipes in there too, and luminous paint recipes, and drawings, and things invented in long cone-watching vigils. Sigh.<br /><br /><br />Jim: The magical crank sieve?<br />Would that be a Talizman one, from New Zealand?<br />I have one, somewhere, or I did, but.... where?<br /><br />As for blenders, search youtube for "Will it Blend?"....<br />I think that ought to be an everything-proof blender. <br /><br />As for letting a hot motor cool, it's the right thing to do. But I'm impatient. Some years ago, I had to cut a lot of five-inch diameter holes, through a 38 inch thick wall, of stone, and engineering brick. I told the hire shop exactly what I was doing, and specified the drill I wanted for pushing the dry-diamond cores. Bear in mind each hole took about two hours... So the guy arrived with, not the drill I'd specified, but a shiny new De-Walt one. I said, that's not the drill I asked for, that's a toy drill. Oh no, he replied, it's guaranteed tough. Two hours later, I put the smoking ruin down on the shop counter, and picked up another new De Walt... I killed three before they sent their driver to another branch and got the Hilti drill I'd originally specified. <br />After that, no more trouble. <br />the man in the shop did ask why I let the drill get so hot that its casing melted. I pointed out that "Guaranteed Tough" was a worthless boast for a tool that could not do a grown-up job. My "guaranteed tough" De Walt boots fell apart too.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-30727493074309930592010-05-05T07:55:00.819-05:002010-05-05T07:55:00.819-05:00hi soubriquet... this is my journey in miniature. ...hi soubriquet... this is my journey in miniature. i started with the sieves about 5 years ago and have moved on to the immersible unit like the one you just got and a cheap blender for slips. they do get hot but after about 5 minutes are cool enough to start over. i can't imagine doing glaze work without them or the magical crank sieveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-78263877433563384042010-05-04T14:15:14.939-05:002010-05-04T14:15:14.939-05:00I know how I felt when I thought that I'd lost...I know how I felt when I thought that I'd lost my glaze books (started early 70s)<br />Commiserations.gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.com