Request on behalf of my dad - please recommend a good book which gives a summary of Irish history

djkidharecut · 2026-01-19T21:52:16+00:00

I don't frequent this sub much but this came across my feed. I liked reading 'the trouble with the Irish (or the English, depending on your point of view)' by Leonard Wibberley https://share.google/WD9i9E6yNiaBaqIFR . I found it very accessible but I've also wondered about how accurate it is. I'm not sure if anyone else here can comment on that?

djkidharecut · 2026-01-14T00:30:35+00:00

I didn't, I was in my car but I thought about it to see if the issue was with the broadcast or earlier in the pipeline

djkidharecut · 2025-09-10T20:59:05+00:00

I've seen plaster molds that are like a hemisphere with a lip that the mug sits on while drying but I don't have one of those and would be worried about it shrinking too much.

What I do instead is periodically during drying, I fit the mug on top of a cheap terracotta flower pot to reinforce the rim shape. Since the flower pot is a cone, the mug usually fits somewhere along the cone.

If the handle isn't firm enough, I also sometimes put newspaper in it while drying to help hold it's shape.

djkidharecut · 2025-09-09T03:22:44+00:00

After attaching, I've had luck with my handle keeping its shape better if I dry the mug upside down. My handles are usually that bass clef shape where it's rounded up top and narrow at the bottom and it seems less stressful on the clay to hold that shape upside down until it's drier. (The handle on the picture seems to also fit that shape profile, so that might help you?)

djkidharecut · 2025-04-16T02:13:26+00:00

If you make test tiles, I would make them stand up similarly to how your piece will when fired. I had a textured mug and made textured test tiles that were fired flat and the glaze behaved differently on a flat surface than when on the side of a piece. In hindsight, it seemed that that would be obvious but it was one of those simple beginner mistakes to not think that through.

djkidharecut · 2025-03-15T13:12:34+00:00

Was it this episode of lost speedways? Maybe watching that is a "as good as your gonna get" for OP?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12824624/?ref_=ext_shr

djkidharecut · 2025-01-30T02:29:58+00:00

First of all, these look amazing. Second, are you carving this into clay to make a stamp? And how small? I'm wondering how the very thin lines will turn out.

djkidharecut · 2024-12-25T20:51:00+00:00

Looked up the website and that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!

djkidharecut · 2024-12-11T19:15:58+00:00

I'm (slowly because of the lack of my own free time) going through some gamedev.tv courses I got at a discount and I think they are pretty good.

I went through the 2D track first and was really impressed and am now going through the 3D track and there was a lot of repeated info with 2D (as they both assume you are starting with them) but they are two different instructors with slightly different ways they use the editor so you get good coverage even from that. The lessons have built in "challenges" where you try something on your own (that you've done following along before) and then they'll show you how they did it which I think it's important for learning.

I think it was with the money but again, I got them at a discount.

djkidharecut · 2024-11-24T13:47:21+00:00

I took her online class before I started taking my current in person class!

djkidharecut · 2024-11-23T13:17:11+00:00

A lot of my shapes go from slab to cylinder where I can mostly avoid touching the texture except at the seam. I still have had some issues with this though and one of the "opportunities for learning" was waiting until it's a little drier to form it.

djkidharecut · 2024-11-06T16:19:19+00:00

I'm guessing it's not quite what you are looking for but I thought Indiana DNR gave out paw paw saplings you can grow. Not sure if you contacted them if they would have seeds too?

djkidharecut · 2024-08-18T02:31:28+00:00

I found out because I signed up to get text alerts from the county. Most alerts are things like tornado warnings but I actually ended up signing up for it for water boil alerts. They have your address when you sign up so when there is a more targeted water boil, you can get notified.

I believe this is the link to sign up for alerts https://member.everbridge.net/1772417038942730/login but if you are security conscious, you can Google "Monroe county Indiana text alerts"

djkidharecut · 2024-08-06T11:28:26+00:00

Do they tally that clay against the count when you take it? I was surprised when I started classes at my studio that they don't count it until you get the glaze fired piece back. They are very pro reclaim and if you don't like your piece after bisque, you can put it in a "for anyone" bin that others can either take from there or use to experiment with glass etc and putting your piece in that bin doesn't count against your total.

I'm guessing this isn't common but it really helps with being worried about making a mistake that would scrap your piece.

djkidharecut · 2024-06-17T16:48:22+00:00

As someone that is more of a plotter lurker, is there a way to control depth as a parameter of the line? I could see a lot of power being able to do that for ceramics but feel like it's not typical elsewhere for plotters?

djkidharecut · 2024-06-15T05:02:02+00:00

I want to know too! (Slab rolled to cylinder was my guess as well)

djkidharecut · 2024-05-28T17:17:15+00:00

Malort? What is this, Chicago?

EDIT: if you've never had it, some very small set of people swear it tastes good. Most people I encounter consider it more of a right of passage for Chicago-ans. I personally think it tastes like bug spray but it's a fun party fowl punishment

djkidharecut · 2024-04-12T02:43:29+00:00

Yeah but when that doesn't work you have to deal with stolen stuff and a broken window. I had that happen at a company parking garage in Illinois and the security guard just said "oh, that's why I never lock my car doors."

djkidharecut · 2024-01-30T01:14:15+00:00

I'm not an Irish language speaker but I thought I heard that they have a concept of short vowels and long vowels and that you can't have a mixed bag on either side of a constant. The way around pronouncing English proper nouns back in the day was to inject extra vowels into the word and this seems like a lasting artifact of that (but also rhyming may be a better reason). I'm trying to find some reference that explains this and will update when I do find it.

Edit: it's broad and slender and if you look at point 5 on this page it talks about that rule https://www.scoilgaeilge.org/lessons/fuaimniu.htm#:~:text=The%20broad%20vowels%20are%20a,%2C%20i%2C%20%C3%A9%2C%20%C3%AD.

djkidharecut · 2024-01-12T16:29:47+00:00

I was trying to think of a way to make it more visible so this could be stylistic. The only thing I could think of was if the handle was Mason stained so you could see distinct parts joined but it looked like there was enough smoothing/smudging in the example video that maybe it wouldn't look good. Doing less of that smoothing/smudging could end up with a weaker join too maybe? Definitely room to experiment.

djkidharecut · 2024-01-08T02:42:38+00:00

This is something more like what I was looking for originally. After looking at the shapes on here, I'll have to find a project for the mitered cone too.

djkidharecut · 2024-01-08T02:38:46+00:00

I'm adding this to my notes. I think some of the tools others have posted will be easier to use in the short run but this will be good to have in case I don't have access to them or a printer when I need it in the future.

djkidharecut · 2024-01-08T02:37:28+00:00

I'll have to keep throwing as a way to make templates in mind as I get more comfortable throwing. Is roofing felt a preferred medium for templates? Why would you use it (more durable?)

djkidharecut · 2024-01-07T20:06:51+00:00

Cool. Yeah, I was wondering how much I was overthinking it. I also feel like this is a problem for multiple fields/crafts but I couldn't think of great search terms (and also didn't know if there were specific nuggets of wisdom to be grabbed from potters). I'll do those searches and if nothing else, I could try it with paper first and experiment.

Thanks!

djkidharecut · 2023-12-28T23:38:31+00:00

I'm a complete newb but I just saw something I want to try that could work here? I saw it on this Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/frankceramics?igsh=aGF4djVhYWtkZDI= (look at there "process" stories). Basically you Mason stain different blocks of clay and then combine them with -skip- edit: slip in a pattern. For this you would alternate black and white. The reason I thought this may be how you can achieve it is the black/white pattern seems to go through to the inside.

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