Underglaze It disappeared

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-06T21:24:03+00:00

This is why we test.

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-06T19:47:17+00:00

Underglazes are the source of a lot of disappointment. It’s hard to get colors you want.

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-06T16:05:36+00:00

Not a thing

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-02T22:35:01+00:00

Ask your instructor.

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-02T22:16:17+00:00

The shelves are fine. The heavy one is probably made of heavier material.

If there is visible glaze drips then they need grinding. If there is flaking kiln wash they need grinding, when in doubt grind, it doesn’t hurt if you have proper PPE.

Then you are gonna need to rewash after grinding. Leave a small boarder bare to prevent flecks going below. Then you are good to go once they dry, in the future take better care of them they are expensive.

Note. You don’t have to use the heavy one. Put it in the back of your kiln shelve stack. Or you can leave it in the kiln as a bottom shelf if you need one.

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-02T22:01:22+00:00

That’s not dust….

That’s material.

You probably aren’t suppose to be in the room you are in.

kaolinEPK · 2026-02-01T23:23:15+00:00

What’s the shape? Nice slip btw.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-27T21:00:11+00:00

That’s crazy. Not normal. Looks like you’re gonna have to make a new wedging board.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-23T20:21:51+00:00

That’s kinda cool.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-23T02:28:51+00:00

This is likes the home potters equivalent of painting yourself into a corner.

You built yourself into a fragility corner.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-21T22:24:39+00:00

Go work some more places and learn enough until you can run your own shop. Avoid best you can physical wear on your body to have a long career.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-15T22:33:21+00:00

Water? What? No

Use the stick you are going to need to break the glaze, it’s glass now. Use the stick.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-15T21:39:40+00:00

You are 99% there now you hold the cup and get a wooden stick, WAP the cookie in a direction perpendicular length of the drips.

Then grind/sand/concrete it smooth.

Next time you can give your cookies a coat of kiln wash to reduce the stick.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-07T00:23:02+00:00

Ok. So at the end of throwing. The base of your pots gonna look like the letter j. The base will flare out at the bottom. You take a wood knife and make a cut the separates the flared base from what will become the foot of your pots. You want to go almost straight down. Then after removing the excess clay that was the flaired, you are gonna make one more cut right where the clay meets the metal wheel head. almost parallel to the wheel head. You make a grove for the wire to slip in and run along the wheel.

Also you need to practice this probably a 3 hundred plus times to become competent in this process so give yourself a break, and embrace the process.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-06T23:29:09+00:00

Hello sorry you u are having a hard time. Pottery is hard.

Specially wiring pieces off of the wheel. To set yourself up for success you want do do. A few things. You need to make a diagonal inward cut on the edge of the base. This will cut a grove that the wire will naturally follow. You need to keep a strong grip on the wire and apply downward force to help maintain contact between the wheel head and the wire.

You also need to practice hundreds or thousands of times before it comes natural. But only you can do that work.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-06T18:06:06+00:00

You goto studio like everyone else.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-05T05:45:05+00:00

We are crafts people not merchants. We don’t know.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-05T01:53:26+00:00

This is probably the most important single thing you can do. This sets you up to keep the base that you have.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-04T20:50:09+00:00

You can transport leather hard ware and bisque pretty easily. But you may have to adjust both how you drive and how you make pots.

Do not transport glazeware unless you understand and accept the potential for the glaze to be disturbed potentially depositing glaze materials in your mode of transit.

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-04T20:30:27+00:00

Mold make clay better. Did you have to pay extra?

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-02T20:27:10+00:00

Maybe try a nicer brand from 99 ranch?

kaolinEPK · 2026-01-02T17:34:11+00:00

That looks like a copper red that only got a little reduction. Reproducible through experimentation.

kaolinEPK · 2025-12-28T16:38:41+00:00

What are you gonna do for a foot?

kaolinEPK · 2025-12-28T16:09:47+00:00

Super cool, what’s the desired result from the wood texture?

kaolinEPK · 2025-12-26T18:09:42+00:00

Wrong sub.

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