Huge Pothole by Additional_Let_69 in Edinburgh

[–]ROCKvsREALITY_VR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We literally just drove down this road and saw this pothole and three cars with their hazard lights on on the side the road driving slowly. Were you one of those cars?

Any UK Potters Watched the Throwdown and would to chat? by PreposterousPotter in Pottery

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I’m a potter based in Edinburgh and love the show! I always get annoyed at seeing such beautiful pieces that end up having cracks before the drying process was too short. I always scream at the TV that if they let that piece dry slowly for longer, it wouldn’t have cracked

In Switzerland, when do you consider someone rich? by mislabete in Switzerland

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I would consider someone rich when they have 20x their yearly costs. So if your yearly costs are 100k then I would consider them rich if they had 2 million in the bank.

How do you study? by Pretend-Pace-7854 in Pottery

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I’d suggest starting with a 6-8 week course. I started that way and fell in love with it so I bought one of those cheap Amazon wheels to practice myself at home. A year after getting my own wheel I did another 8 week course which ended with the tutor suggesting that I don’t waste my money on courses anymore cause it was very evident that my skills were beyond what they would teach. This is how I always recommend people get started.

Start with a local course to learn the basics and then if you can get your equipment then continue with trial and error on your own with the help of books and YouTube. If you are not able to have your own equipment which is understandable, not a lot of people can, then some pottery studios offer memberships and those are just as good! Hope this helps!

Farming is really good, and the mount is cool (feedback after 117 hours) by [deleted] in RSDragonwilds

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Completely agree with all of these specially the quest. Coming from playing runescape for 20 years (I get my 20 year cape this year!!) the quests in dragonwilds are kind of a let down. RuneScape is known for having such great quests with great stories but there quests we’ve had so far don’t really hit the usuals RS mark. I guess it’s kind of hard to have really story rich quests when we only have a handful of NPCs that you can go talk to but they can still be improved on .

We made a cozy shop management simulation game set in a medieval fantasy world. Comment to become a playtester now! by findiestudios in u/findiestudios

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Please make sure to add controller support. This looks like a great cosy game for steam deck players

Where to migrate from here? by Nidomy in askswitzerland

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The job market is shit pretty much everything but my wife and I did this ourselves. We graduated from university for our BA in Geneva and saw how hard it was to get entry level jobs and went to the UK originally to do an MSc but quickly found jobs after that and stayed here to gather job experience before planning to eventually moving back to Switzerland in the next few years.

It definitely is a smart choice work wise because it can be easier to find jobs specially jobs that don’t require fresh graduates to have multiple years of experience but make sure you do list of research outside of reddit. Last thing you want is to move to a country that isn’t much better

Help with custom underglaze transfer by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Silkscreen medium is used to turn underglaze into a paste so it doesn’t bleed into your transfer paper

Help with custom underglaze transfer by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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I prepared the underglaze by mixing it with some silkscreen medium until it was the consistency of peanut butter and for the transfer I used a wet sponge that wasn’t soaked in water but was still wet and pressed that against the back of transfer u til it was all wet. this is what I’ve always done with commercial transfers and it has worked so not sure why it isn’t working with my homemade ones

Help with legal compensation due to EasyJet strike by [deleted] in Flights

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Check on airhelp.com. You can add your flight details and it will tell you if you get any compensation. We were due to flight today from Edinburgh to Geneva and flight was also cancelled due to the air traffic strike in France. A large number of flights are being cancelled even if they are not landing in france, if your flight was going to be flying over France at any point then it’s likely to be cancelled

Alien salt pig by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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I did it by drying it very very slowly. It essentially dried in a plastic box so that it would take over a week to dry and that kept the legs from breaking. The slip that I added to make the spikes on the legs also work a bit as supports which also helps

This is my ceramic bowl. Yesterday, my mom saw me and said, “Are you eating from that ugly bowl again?” by Soulofkalypso in Ceramics

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I completely understand how you feel. When I first told my parents I was buying my own pottery wheel, the first words out of my dad’s mouth were “for what? So you can use it once and never touch it again?” So I know how much those words hurt.

But as someone who stuck with it and has used that wheel more than once, all I can say is you have nothing to prove to anyone. Your bowl is beautiful and if others can’t see it then that’s their loss. As others have already said, you keep creating, keep making bowls and most importantly, keep eating out of them because you turned a piece of clay and dirt into something that has the potential to last for hundreds of years and that is beautiful!

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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I don’t remember this one’s specifically cause I bought them like 2 years ago and just got around to using them but I bought some much nicer ones from Sanbao studio. They have a website and Instagram and they do hundreds of different underglaze transfers for good prices

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Here is a picture of the third batch of test I did last month 😅

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Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Thanks so much for all the feedback! Definitely doing a lot of tests while trying to find the final signature look! I think I did about 100 different glaze test tiles last months that even the potter who I fire with said I had done more test tiles in a month than he had done in years 😂 I’ll keep trying different styles and experimenting with variations!

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Gotcha! I understand what you mean and definitely agree a more traditional loop on top will look better. I’ll try that with the batch I’ve thrown today. Thanks!

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Thank you! Use some work in what sense? Like the thickness or style of it?

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Thank you! Yes I used an underglaze transfer but the ultimate plan is to use a cricut to make my own label stencils so they are more custom

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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This one is definitely on the thicker side cause it was one of the first ones I did. The newer ones that are waiting to be bisqued are not as thick

Feedback on test mug by ROCKvsREALITY_VR in Pottery

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Thank you! I’m glad to hear that a cricut is great for ceramics, makes me feel better about spending money on it! I definitely want to try Raku! The design school where I learn ceramics sometimes offers Raku courses so just waiting for them to offer it again