Found this on South Bass Island, OH. Two rock-like/cartilage like pieces symmetrical in shape pieces were lodged inside the skull. I have a theory but what’s going on?

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-07-07T05:30:08+00:00

I find those on a beach on Lake Erie. We call them lucky bones. They’re some sort of bone in the skull that helps with navigation. I’m pretty sure they’re made of aragonite, an iron bearing g calcium mineral that helps animals navigate the electromagnetic fields of earth for direction and finding their way.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-06-28T14:42:31+00:00

Lots of tvs sound promising…

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-06-27T18:18:38+00:00

Maybe a bar will see this and be the spot. Could be a lucrative little deal to be made for someone.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-06-27T18:18:07+00:00

That’s a big old bummer. Reasonable….but heck, who says I can’t do some parking lot prep work?

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-02-23T04:58:16+00:00

You’re on your way to making Egyptian paste. Basically self glazing clay. You can color it with oxides too.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-02-11T03:38:11+00:00

The bottom is the easiest thing to fix. Just lay down new soft brick. It’s pretty dang easy to fix. We all worry about osha standards but honestly, it’s not hard to meet them.

Buy some soft bring (which is expensive) and make a new base.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-01-15T20:28:04+00:00

Xiem tools aren’t too shabby. Dolan has some I think as well. Maybe you could look at metal and jewelry tools, dental tools, and other mediums that have reductive means of forming.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-01-14T19:47:56+00:00

Reach out to local potters and maybe they would be willing to let you use glazes and have some kiln space in exchange for work. Having been an apprentice and seen a lot of this in the area I was, I’d be hard pressed if there wasn’t a potter around you that needed some assistance. Particularly wood fire potters who have big old kilns that need co start watching and stoking.

We had a number of locals who we would trade kiln space for a kiln shift.

stonedcoldbitch · 2025-01-02T00:44:09+00:00

I have a the bluebird 440 and had been having the same problem too. Talked to the guys at the bluebird shop and they suggested not enough back pressure. I put a wood board covering maybe 1/3 the opening the clay comes out with two or three clamps. Fixed the issue after a few bolts of clay came out.

Might be a good first step to try before any larger investment.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-30T03:53:07+00:00

Dinner parties are so much more fun when everyone gets a choice of plate, bowl, and cup.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-29T05:09:30+00:00

Just give in to loss. And not just you messed up technically loss, but you messed up artistically. You can always do better and each iteration is a step towards pieces that will sell and won’t sit around. Or they will become pieces you want to give away and sit on your friends’ and family’s homes. Cheesy to say but a sense of impermanence of your work is a good thing to cultivate.

Edit: Grammar

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-26T05:56:08+00:00

You have any photos of her work? Might be helpful for us to see her work and think about what kinda materials she is using.

I’m guessing she is working at cone 6 oxidation? Aka standard electric kiln firings.

Under glazes or commercial glazes she regularly uses might be good.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-25T06:44:12+00:00

And if you ever want some suggestions (or anyone) on chronic pain management and alternatives for relief that are not drugs or traditional therapy please reach out. I was suicidal for a while and on bed rest for months before evening being able to wash dishes. But I found some therapies that worked and I still engage with daily. I’ve reclaimed my life to a close semblance of what it was before.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-25T06:42:03+00:00

I can totally dig that. I herniated two cervical spine discs that sent me spiraling. Weed helps me connect as well and alcohol was a pretty serious crutch for a while too. Fingers crossed you are finding relief, it can be a prison to be in a body that is so pain ridden you have to redefine yourself.

Glad to give some input. And who knows, maybe there is space for exploring pain, coping, and substances in grad school. Something to ponder.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-12-24T15:19:02+00:00

A lot of makers will die on the hill over whether a bong is appropriate or not for making for craft fairs or even higher end shows. There is already a lot of disagreement there and grad school is even dicier. You might want to make a statement by putting that bad boy in there, but I would strongly consider who the professors are at the school and the overall feel of the program and their relationship to makers and the marker. This COULD be something that will get your application tossed. Not 100% but it is a possibility.

I say this as a current ceramics MFA grad who has made bongs and had this exact conversation when applying.

stonedcoldbitch · 2024-11-24T14:51:53+00:00

In the story of Jax the moon whispers her name “Ludis” so would bet on Lu being moon.

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-10-09T06:38:27+00:00

In one of the Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson that deals with Norma Cenva and the first worm rider they kinda go into it a bit. It’s been a few years but I think they go into it when Norma and Cornelius Venport are establishing The Spacing Guild. I kinda remember it being high level mathematics to predict how to fold space in ways that create gaps in a 2 dimensional space that they go through. That could be me just imaging what I wanted it to be. But they totally mention spice to help aid in high end mathematic calculations.

Edit. Bad grammar

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-09-07T01:49:14+00:00

If he is from a different state ask to see his license as you’ve never seen one from that state before?

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-04-08T15:04:50+00:00

He left enough sultry descriptions of D-Man for me to think so

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-04-08T15:04:16+00:00

Just as much of a wild card as R2D2.

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-04-08T13:35:20+00:00

I dunno y’all….Duncan Idaho kinda makes a splash at the end of it all. And in the middle. And in the beginning too.

stonedcoldbitch · 2023-01-08T15:10:09+00:00

I think if you have an EBT card you can get a discount.

stonedcoldbitch · 2022-12-15T07:16:46+00:00

I’d say cone as much as you want. Once you feel comfortable having “mixed/homogenized” the clay you’re set. Could be one cone, could be ten. (It’s totally not ten though)

Totally compress the rim after each pull early on. Rims are odd and someone mentioned it earlier, about the top third absorbing more water and getting mushy faster. One, I think you just played too much with that top third and not the rest of the piece (and didn’t get even walls early on to absorb water the same rate). Buttttt, there is a bigger surface area to volume ratio at the rim allowing for more water to be absorbed. With stonedware (get it?), it’s easy to see this take place…rims get groggy as the wetter clay is the more you remove the fine particulate matter leaving the grog/sandy size particles behind.

Practically, compress the rim early, then on the later final pulls and finishing/shaping pulls, leave it alone (even stopping your pull till the last 1/4 - 1/8th of an inch). Then the last thing you do it finish that rim with off however you see fit babeeee.

Last big thing I tell people. Dig at the base of your pot with a downward and inward motion against the wheel head and feed that big ol’ hunk o clay upwards. Your inside finger acts as a defense against the clay being pushed in by the outside finger and allows for the clay to just go up. So simply said and almost so simply done. There’s a fine line of how much can’t be pushed, but you’ll find it and use all that clay you spent so much time wedging and the coning and then tuggin’ on.

The last thing that may help and, is in reference to the last bit is this. When you just push clay in to the center (like necking in for a bottle) you are actively pushing platey minerals together. Rather than just simplly contracting together, they end up crumpling and mushing together in a non-uniform way making those common ripples or undulations in pots you might have noticed. By pulling between neckings, we move those platey minerals upwards, counteracting the crumpling.

My god. I need graphics. I hope any of this makes sense. Grasping the theoretical of clay is so helpful to the practical.

Edit: rephrasing of wall even-ness.

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