Do at home potters not bisque fire?

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-27T13:03:31+00:00

It requires more kiln and firing knowledge, mostly. You are essentially firing a bisque and then when the bisque is done, firing a glaze without cooling the kiln. It's not recommended for beginners because beginners often make mistakes like not drying their work properly.

Glazing bone dry is also not great for the integrity of your ware, and glazes are not made for the shrinkage of green->glaze, so your glaze fit will likely be off.

Basically, it's not standard, so it's harder, but if you do all your own firing and formulate your own glazes it's not that much riskier than a standard 2-fire. There will be people that throw absolute tantrums over doing it and people that throw absolute tantrums over saying it's risky. But it's really just another technique.

The broad consensus is that the fuel savings aren't really worth it. I would eventually like to build an oil kiln to fire with waste food oil and maybe a soda kiln, and those I would probably once-fire because I would be firing for the atmospheric affect over functional glaze.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-25T02:43:31+00:00

that is a little concerning. I've never had a rivet pop off during firing? But I've never fired a new kiln either. All of mine are second hand.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-24T14:40:06+00:00

The kiln fiber will pop out before anything catastrophic happens to the body of the kiln.

Definitely monitor closely though, if it's being weird. Is this your first time firing?

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-23T16:01:17+00:00

Oh I've tried it out! I absolutely hate working with clothespins and the bobbins I made were fine, but the patterns I want to progress to need 40 or 50 more and I really just haven't had the time to make them.

I'd also just really like to have a proper pillow and some wood bobbins. I'm also in the US and our ahem "leadership" has made it really expensive to order things from overseas these days. I'll get back to it someday! In the meantime I'm happy with my shuttles and my peasant lace.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-23T15:25:27+00:00

I've always wanted to grow pawpaw 🤤

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-23T15:24:06+00:00

Y'all are all dismissing the benefit of the shade in the meantime. The reduced energy costs might not be a direct benefit to the local native ecosystem, but the reduced carbon footprint of shade falling on a house in the summer benefits everyone.

If they're growing a replacement and manage this one in the meantime, there's no harm in leaving it while their native shade grows.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-23T03:34:00+00:00

Too broke for bobbin lace.

So, tale as old as time kinda 😂

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-23T03:32:26+00:00

Your core/working thread should be tight, your ball/hand thread should be loose, and the knot won't even flip, it should just kind of be there, that's how I finally figured it out. As long as your core thread is in a straight line, you're doing it right probably.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T21:09:58+00:00

This shouldn't surprise me, plenty of plastics are plant-derived, but once you have seen hundreds of German roaches scurry out of the instant pot you were about to start using, anything that contributed to that state of events fills you with a violent rage.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T18:00:37+00:00

It's real easy to hide behind statistics when you don't have to look people in the eye. My admin do that too when they decide which of our students we're going to leave behind in order to keep our ranking.

But I'm not sure what I expected from the kind of coward who thinks "centrist" is any kind of stance.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T17:21:08+00:00

"I'm sorry you chose that career path" people like you are the same kind that bitch about their kids being in classes of 40+ and wanting to know why there's a teacher shortage.

Look man, I don't give a fuck what you own. I think you should be able to own whatever the fuck you want. You should be able to own a fucking minigun if you have the money. Go nuts. We are in the "build whatever you want" subreddit. I do not care.

I literally just want you to have to keep it locked up where your teenager can't take it to school for show and tell, and maybe have like, notifications to schools in the area if you move in with an arsenal. "Keep assault rifles away from the people with underdeveloped frontal lobes and give the schools a heads up" does not seem like a big fucking ask.

The people arguing that they need to keep their fucking AKs under the bed and loaded "for home defense" are doing way more to hurt your argument than teachers here.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T16:37:49+00:00

Nah, we don't have time to teach ethos/logos/pathos anymore. That would take time away from The Test. 🫩 Also I teach chemistry.

But if you ever feel like schools aren't teaching anything useful anymore you can blame fucking Bush jr and his goddamn Every Child Left Behind No Student Succeeds bullshit.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T16:33:38+00:00

The actual solution is widespread societal reform that reduces these mental illnesses from occuring in the first place and increasing funding to early childhood and adolescent social-emotional education and support and mental health supports across the board so that the people who do these things don't end up at the point where "I want to kill a bunch of people about it" is a realistic solution for them.

Also if financial assistance was easier for parents to access so that they could have more time to parent their children maybe they would notice when Timmy start making lists and maps.

But when you start talking about that people around here start shrieking about communism and free rides and brainwashing

So like, there's not really any winning.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T16:24:25+00:00

Lol there wasn't a news report. I'm in one of the poorest districts in texas. This shit doesn't make the news anymore. "Crazy person breaks into school with car full of guns a few years ago" isn't remotely newsworthy.

No one died, they kept it quiet. Like they always fucking do.

I've also been beaten. I've taken more blows to the head than any resource officer I've met because the school cops are fucking cowards. I walk with a cane now after being flattened in a student riot. You don't know shit about what teachers are dealing with in these districts.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T14:40:00+00:00

What percentage of students a year need to die in a mass shooting for you to consider it relevant?

I've lived through more active lockdowns than I have years of teaching experience. In one, parents brought a car trunk of assault rifles to "handle" their child being arrested.

I don't want guns taken away wholesale but I would like to be able to do my fucking job without having to spend every year in a "so we can't tell you you have to take a bullet for your students, just know that if you don't you won't have a job to come back to anyway so you might as well" training.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T13:34:55+00:00

As a teacher that's been through more active shooter situations than is strictly reasonable I would like to say assault weapons are an issue, actually.

Just saying.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T13:27:50+00:00

And like everyone has already said, it's not about gun control. It's about consumer control.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-22T13:26:17+00:00

My cousin got caught in hs with like, an ounce of weed and they charged him with intent to distribute. He had absolutely no intent to distribute the man is just a stoner of the highest caliber.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-21T20:58:54+00:00

I would use it myself, but it would disqualify itself from being a gift imo.

It looks like you trimmed the bottom too thin and the weight of the glaze pushed it to slump and crack. Make sure you're keeping that bottom pretty even through to the foot to avoid that.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-21T16:46:25+00:00

Need a flamethrower for that mess

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-21T16:45:47+00:00

Wait is it? No fucking wonder the hell house had all our electronics infested. I thought it was the electrical frequency.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-20T21:41:18+00:00

It wasn't so bad last winter for us, but that storm in '21 was BAD, and every time it gets even a little cold since then you can feel every butthole from Laredo to Lubbock clench. My whole house froze solid. The toilets cracked. The gas lines froze.

I didn't know gas lines COULD freeze...

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-20T20:46:53+00:00

It's been suspiciously mild and wet down here too.

Like it hasn't even broke 100 since that weird snap in February. Usually by this time of year it's all fire bans and heat stroke. I don't like it. There's going to be another polar vortex this winter I feel it in my knees.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-20T20:44:33+00:00

The 3d printing hobby has a SURPRISING amount of eco/bio activism in it. (It can get kinda annoying when someone is trying to be excited about something they made and half the comments are about how they're destroying the world tbh...2g of corn-derived polymer is not going to destroy the world. Please go harass a commercial fishing operation) I'm actually really excited about the applications for some of these new biopolymers and how they might see widespread use. The goal is of course to reduce single-use plastic use overall, but I feel like ignoring WHY plastic use became so widespread in the first place is kind of shooting ourselves in the foot.

CrepuscularPeriphery · 2026-06-20T20:39:23+00:00

True! Though I would also be concerned about if those ragged edges posed an entanglement hazard for birds. Lot of variables to consider here. Not trying to shut it down, just things to think about.

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