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Most of my latest batch. Glaze combos: Deep Sienna Speckle over Palladium; Combos of Textured Turquoise, Indigo Float, a...
04/03/2026

Most of my latest batch.

Glaze combos: Deep Sienna Speckle over Palladium; Combos of Textured Turquoise, Indigo Float, and Honey Flux

That lovely plant pot is from the clever people at - I have them all over my house. Self-watering, special design to help the roots grow and prosper, my plants look amazingly good.

03/07/2026

My latest batch. My lovely wife Debbie says she thinks that the first vase with the red grooves is (one of) the best I’ve made. I’m very happy with the colors and shapes, overall. A couple of them were experiments that didn’t come out quite the way I’d hoped, but I’m still happy. :)


I do love the .clay White Stoneware, and have been experimenting with quite a few other clay bodies. So this batch inclu...
02/10/2026

I do love the .clay White Stoneware, and have been experimenting with quite a few other clay bodies. So this batch includes both the SIO2 clay and reclaim that includes it and other clays. And now I’ve started glazing the bottoms with the Stroke & Coat Hot Tamale (SC-74) and putting it into the grooves and on the chattering.

I’m continuing to use the chattering tools from and the trimming and shaping tools from , , , Xiem, and .

What you see here is me pushing myself to slightly larger pieces (the big ones are ~3lbs) and smoother and more consistent bowl shapes (~1lb).

01/29/2026

Mostly .clay Speckled Stoneware. I admit that I don’t love speckled clay, and had to sand down the speckles on the parts that weren’t glazed.

And the assortment of glazes and techniques? Oh my!

Amaco, Mayco, Kentucky Mudworks, Coyote, plus I didn’t show you the bottoms where I put Speedball Reds (2 different reds) for the first time.

So while I probably won’t do speckled clay again, I love the shapes I explored. Some of these pieces are the PRAI White Stoneware (like the one I marked as my favorite) and I love it.

There are four custom pieces that aren’t included. Three tries at making herb st*****rs and a “jar” for a woodworker friend of mine who makes kitchens tools (he wanted something to put the tools in).

I learned a lot. Many of them have multiple layers of 3-4 glazes. The ones with the spots (and a couple of others) have spots of Amaco Honey Flux to encourage running and color blending as I’ve seen on a number of reels, but they didn’t work the way I expected.

Now I get to make some more!!


Back in my shedio. More clay from .clay but this time it’s their PRAI White Stoneware. Much smoother than either their S...
01/15/2026

Back in my shedio. More clay from .clay but this time it’s their PRAI White Stoneware. Much smoother than either their Speckled Stoneware or the Loca Mocha.

Now I have to decide whether I’m going to throw and trim a few more (it comes in 27 lb bags, so there’s 21 lbs left) or let these and everything else dry and bisque fire them all. Torn.

01/11/2026

Finishing off the bag of .clay Speckled Stoneware (although I did reclaim all the stuff from the throwing and trimming, so stay tuned!).

As you can see, I used a variety of tools depending on the curves and shapes.

More .clay Speckled Stoneware. I’m kinda thinking of these as either planters/pots or decorative pieces. The first one I...
01/08/2026

More .clay Speckled Stoneware. I’m kinda thinking of these as either planters/pots or decorative pieces. The first one I threw upside down (wide on the bottom, closed the top) and then turned it over to trim. I’ve had these in mind for a while. I’m planning on a blue glaze.

Thrown yesterday, trimmed today.

Thrown and trimmed. .clay Speckled Stoneware.
01/08/2026

Thrown and trimmed. .clay Speckled Stoneware.

12/23/2025

17 of 24. The others had strange bubbles in the clay and glaze. I can’t explain it, but I’ve had this problem with non-white clays more than once. I fire the glaze at the same temperature every time, so I’m a bit baffled. But I’m happy with these. There is a number on each piece, if you’re interested in having one. ;)

12/16/2025

A few weeks of work. Fresh clay plus I reclaimed both individual balls and a couple of batches that came out of the splash pan. My goals were to refine shapes and waste as little clay as possible.

My newest discovery and experiment is using diatomaceous earth bath mat and sink mats to dry the bottoms of pieces and to wedge reclaim. The mats suck the water out faster but very smoothly. Not a single S-crack and generally even drying.

Next up is to go through my dozens of bottles of glaze and pick 3 - 4 combos. I’m open to suggestions ;)

12/14/2025

50 lbs of Loca Mocha, including two reclaim “batches”. The last four pieces (the dark ones on the lower shelf) were from the second reclaim which was about 7 lbs. I’ve been working on being consistent (although not “production” consistent) when it comes to making these three forms. As you can see, the bowls are not all the identical form, nor are the vases. The UFOs are somewhat more consistent.

For this whole batch, I used tools from , , , , plus my large assortment of ribs (both stainless steel and rubber).

For trimming I used various devices from , , .pottery (The Footer) and a couple of others.

This has been a lovely journey and as soon as those last four are bone dry, I’ll be bisque firing them all. I’m eager!

Next clay will be the .clay speckled stoneware.

A set of 2lb pieces made with Loca Mocha clay. At this point I normally leave them drying overnight after throwing, bec...
11/30/2025

A set of 2lb pieces made with Loca Mocha clay. At this point I normally leave them drying overnight after throwing, because this clay retains water for a long time. They’ll still be cool to the touch for a few days.

I think I’ve mentioned that I call the shape of three of them “UFO”. I find it challenging to make and satisfying to look at when they’re done and glazed.

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