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"I'm off to see the Wizard...." A Visit to The Wizard of Clay |
Zinc Silicate Crystalline Glaze Pottery A chronicle of my recent progress and a way for me to keep it straight in my head! |
I recently wrote on the Crystalline Glaze Forum "I will be playing this weekend as "I'm off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Koz" starting this evening, for a long weekend."
November 11, 2011........(11-11-11!!!!!) After I got back home.......well rested.....with a million thoughts streaming through my head.
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November 8, 2011 Dragon #2 gave some pretty strange results, but that's what you get when you push the envelope.
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| Packing it up to head home | |||
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| Patti was waiting when I got home. | Thanksgiving is right around the corner. |
November 7, 2011
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| We finally got Dragon #7 to fire through. | Dragon #2 was firing with a load that got reduced at both a high and low temperature. | She was belching CO out of her poop chute like there was going to be no tomorrow. | The top shelf re-fired pieces came out OK |
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| These pieces with copper and tin, on a mixed bag of clay bodies, did a whole range of things............ none of which were expected. | ...........including making needles only on the bottom. | ||
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November 6, 2011
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| First morning light | Not much happening here | A determined Wizard | |||||
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| It turns out an element broke during the firing. Then after replacing it and starting over the thermocouple gave it up too. | |||||||
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| ZnSiO4 crystals on an alumina substrate |
November 5, 2011 We loaded Dragon #7 with a whole mixed bag of stuff.
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| Later that night when ^10 should have dropped she crapped out at ~2150. |
November 4, 2011
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| Who but The Wizard could roll Yahtzee in 2? | Russell White's Black Knight |
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Phil Hamling
376 County Route 1
Warwick, NY, USA 10990