WOW! I think we have had a break through at cone 5. I am getting very good results with the dirt glaze. It's not completely the same b...

Did a bisque fire today. Also loading up pots for Wenaha Gallery in Dayton. Some of these are the nicest pots I have ever made. The co...

I have started making lidded soup bowls with handles. A friend suggested I do that and I thought it was a good idea. I got a check from...

Hello again. My ball mill is running as I write this. I have some basaltic clay from East of here and am trying to make the particles s...

I might have fired my last cone 8 pots ever. It was one of those times when you are just sitting there not concentrating on the problem ...

Well the cone 1 kiln is done. I think I have found the secret. It is to simply fire the pots 5 times. The pots that are coming out are...

Cone 1 re-fire is done as is the cone 8 test for dirt glaze. Next will be a bisque load of the last bowls for Wenaha. Tomorrow I will d...

We have had good success by re-glazing dirt glaze with PVC to cone 8. It is so successful along with Tea Dust that I am tempted to stay ...

Well the dirt glaze crawls. This sucks. I put in a 1/2 cup or so silica and borate. I hope that helps. The test kiln is busy so I won...

It seems as though I cannot add any pictures to my IG site. I wonder why. There is really no point of having a blog if it doesn't inclu...

I have re-glazed one of the cone 8 mugs with wood ash and re-fired. I hope this will be good. I expect I won't have any more for the We...

I think I am finished with the framing of the walk way to the fish pond. The pug mill is ready since it had dried out. I also started s...

Hello. Tomorrow it will be under 100 degrees so I will fire my kiln. I got the pug mill started up but the clay will have to aged befor...

I am back. We bought the Trex for our new deck so I painted this afternoon. I might have finished a landscape of Deadwood Oregon. Neve...

It's been a while since I have posted. We are doing stuff in our back yard. 2 feature shows have arisen too. Wenaha Gallery says that ...

A miracle has happened. I have been firing my dirt/borate glaze to cone 8 since 1973 so I can get the iron red when re-firing it to cone...

I guess things change when you get older. I am depressed by my pottery. Something happened to my PVC glaze. It doesn't work. This is ...

Yesterday we helped our son and daughter in law move her sister down from Spokane to Richland. Lots of work. Today I did another 6"x6" ...

Fired some cone 8 test chips and tomorrow I will test some glazes. I will need to make some more dirt glaze for the matching soup bowls....

Got some marvelous glazes. One is a white woodash and the regular dirt glaze is working well. The kids came over today and glazed thei...