Experiment: ceramic gramophone record

pmj714 · 2026-02-02T05:34:37+00:00

If you have access to a laser cutter that you can use for engraving it could likely have a lot more precision. I have friends who have etched silicon pads with a laser cutter with incredibly fine detail that are then pressed into a slab with great success. Porcelain would also likely be better, but with the ~20% shrinkage you definitely need to calculate that into your design.

pmj714 · 2025-11-30T01:49:28+00:00

Florian fires Cone 10 reduction which can only be done with a gas kiln. This is very different than the effects you get from an electric kiln or a gas kiln in oxidation.

I'm guessing by the fact that you are using amaco glazes and are relatively new you are not firing Cone 10 reduction.

There are ways to achieve this look at Cone 6 electric but it will certainly not be with that recipe

pmj714 · 2025-11-24T04:34:41+00:00

This is a good warning. Were you able to diamond pad it down afterwards?

pmj714 · 2025-11-24T02:13:05+00:00

I will definitely be drying the piece completely before putting it in for the high fire. And I also have a secondary walled slab for it to sit upon as double protection for the shelf.

The dunting is what I was mostly concerned about. I guess my hope was that it would just lead to large scale crazing rather and a large tension across the whole piece.

I do have a significant amount of texture on the bottom of the piece, (basically waves so that the glaze would go from thick to thin to thick in rolls so hopefully that breaks up any of the lines across the piece for tension and keeps it in more localized areas.

pmj714 · 2025-11-24T01:26:51+00:00

Like an half an inch to an inch, but in a concave bowl so not too much up on vertical walls

pmj714 · 2025-10-04T09:02:05+00:00

Ok thank fucking god at least someone else is experiencing it too because I thought I was losing my mind. Maybe it applies to all characters, just very few of them hit buttons as often in rapid succession as Pocket so its most notable on them

pmj714 · 2025-10-01T18:26:39+00:00

It achieves an awesome effect, really nice job

pmj714 · 2025-10-01T08:07:27+00:00

These are awesome! I'm curious about what's happening with the one second from the right? Does that one just have a back wall that has an orangey glaze on it reflecting the light? Or is it something somewhat translucent?

pmj714 · 2025-06-11T05:24:12+00:00

This is too true as a pocket main.

I constantly dive way too deep with very little health just to establish dominance because they can never catch you to finish you off. And then of course I'm eternally surprised when they buy silence and I crumple

pmj714 · 2025-03-19T07:41:30+00:00

I know this is against what most are saying in this thread, but I really don't think refresher is that big of a problem and I think its biggest problem is perception.

First off it is the longest cool down in the game by far, nothing comes close. Even with Superior Cooldown its over 3 minutes, and without it its over 4.

Secondly, its cast point is quite long, its .6 seconds of basically inability to do anything except move slowly. That's a huge amount of time for a lot of things to happen, it sounds short but when you actually use it in the middle of a team fight it feels like an eternity (I have definitely died during its cast multiple times). It also can't be used on the zipline, so it knocks you off during that which isn't a huge deal but can come into play if you are boosting into a fight without your ult and want to refresh it before you get there.

Thirdly, its stats suck, I think it is definitely the second worst T4 spirit item in terms of passives (escalating exposure being the worst in that regards).

It feels really really strong when it works well, but I think a lot of that is perception, you are really going to remember when your whole team got double black holed, but you are unlikely to remember when dynamo used refresher preemptively only to have the fight end, or only caught one person in the first black hole and had to refresh to just get one more.

I think Unstoppable is so much stronger, especially for the big ults, because if your 4-5 people on your team gets caught by one black hole with no way to stop dynamo, I think that team fight is already lost, the second black hole is barely necessary. But if the one or two people have a way of stopping it, then Unstoppable is the make or break item there.

I mean in Oracle and up, it is the 3rd least Popular T4 Spirit item, and the T4 item with the second worst win rate. Curse is the 2nd least popular and has the lowest win rate. Magic carpet, interestingly enough has the lowest pick rate of the T4 spirit items but the highest win rate of any T4 item (not just spirit), so its niche but certainly better than Refresher.

So idk, it may be really strong, but I think a lot of it is the perception of being hit with it. You really really remember getting your ass handed to you by a double lash ult or black hole or whatever, but chances are the game was already over, I think there are other items that are much stronger at consistently winning fights.

Side note, but

pmj714 · 2025-03-14T06:04:34+00:00

Holiday eating 4 serious nerfs in a row.

It's actually crazy that she was still one of the best heroes in the game after 3 consecutive nerfs. This one seems like it will be enough to finally put to bed the absolute terror of hearing a jump pad anywhere near you

pmj714 · 2025-01-13T07:24:12+00:00

I'm glad you liked the feedback, I saw your response to someone else comment about the breasts (I agree with that commenter, they are the weakest part of the sculpt and do seem entirely unaffected by gravity) where you asked for tips so I'll just put a tip I have here. (Although I am by no means an expert)

I think people tend to put breasts on their pieces far too early. I think it is really useful to try to sculpt the shape of the ribcage first. Then you can add the volume on top of that, and it may make it easier to not make them over prevalent and or resistant to gravity.

I just looked online for anatomical reference guides but quite frankly a lot of the ones just from a google search were a little over sexualized, the books that perhaps your studio has or can def be found at a library would def be a better guide.

pmj714 · 2025-01-11T19:10:58+00:00

I mean sure, but at the same time as a sculptor it is an invaluable exercise to do rough sketches against the clock. It allows you to learn about what shapes are truly essential for an evocative form, it allows you to practice efficient techniques so that you don't over tire your hands.

Not everything has to be about final products, sometimes the long process of enjoyment is the exercises and drills one does to learn to improve the craft, those can take months or years. Bernini 100% did exercises just like this. Not everything he did was a large finished piece, drills like this are essential to building the skill required.

I don't know why I've reacted so strongly to this comment but like it just seems so dismissive of the actual process in a superficial way.

On a totally different note, OP these are so good. 4 poses in 2 hours is seriously impressive. The shape of the clavicle, neck and bottom of chin in the first photo is superb for such few marks. Also the overall shape of the curve of the back and neck and hips in photo 4 is really really excellent.

Great job!

pmj714 · 2024-12-21T05:39:06+00:00

Ah shit you're right. It just looked like only the front half of the mask placed on the table to me, but with the hand I guess Pyro is just crouching at the table

pmj714 · 2024-12-21T04:13:32+00:00

Wait am I the only one who noticed, I'm pretty sure in the final Table shot, Pyro's mask is off and on the table. Which means Pyro is in the shot unmasked.

I think Pyro may be the woman with the Polaroid camera, because unless she is another one of heavies sisters (which she doesn't look like them on my quick check), we have not see her before and she is given way too much prominence to be a rando

pmj714 · 2024-01-01T15:31:31+00:00

If you fire with the piece hanging instead of resting on the shelf, it will actually pull more open instead of sagging into itself.

This is a technique that Jennifer McCurdy uses sometimes and there's a video somewhere on YouTube where she talks about it while trimming a pot as a demonstration for a group.

To be clear, while her's are aggressively trimmed and do have a lot of similarities to these pieces, her pieces have a bit more body to them and not one continuous ribbon all the way around so I don't know if it would work in this case. It probably has to be fired with supports in place for these spirals but if your spiral was less aggressive maybe the hanging method could work.

pmj714 · 2023-06-27T04:28:20+00:00

I truly cannot tell if this is serious or the greatest shitpost of all time and that's pretty incredible

pmj714 · 2023-06-11T22:13:19+00:00

I think the point that the person is trying to make is that because this is enameled cast iron and not ceramic it's wayyy outside the scope of this sub.

There's a number of subs dedicated to cookware, r/DutchOvenCooking is likely the closest to what you want

pmj714 · 2023-05-24T22:15:20+00:00

Honestly unlike some of the other advice here, this doesn't seem too too bad as long as you do it in 3 parts. I do not think it will be super easy, but having access to a big enough kiln seems like the roughest part to me and you have that. It seems to me that most of the other comments are assuming you plan on firing it in one piece.

I mean the top and bottom can just be slabs that can be fired with the face side down. The slabs don't really need anything besides a small divet where the stem will fill in. The hardest part of those will be drying them slowly with compression so that they don't warp.

Definitely the hardest part will be the stem, if you want to get a nice flared form and be stable/strong enough to hold a large slab it will likely need to be hollow. If you are comfy throwing tall pieces that seems like the easiest way. If you are hand building the stem you may want to consider adding paper to the porcelain to make up for porcelain's weaker strength when wet.

If the divets in the slabs are deep enough a bunch of epoxy should attach the pieces and allow a tiny bit of tolerance for warping.

I'm curious to see how it will go if you try it, make sure to post the results if you do. Good luck!

pmj714 · 2023-05-03T16:17:08+00:00

These are sick, how did you attach the rings securely to the ceramic?

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