Stoned...

[HorseloverFat]

Oh, lordy -- you win!
And you woulda loved my former boss, who grew up on a farm in Illinois -- they made explosive stuff too. How the adults never suspected the blast patterns in the fields, I dunno...

There’s a farm-family around here that specializes in “sparkler bombs”.. I’ve seen them DEMOLISH a Fridge/freezer combo with two.

 

[TinyArt]

There’s a farm-family around here that specializes in “sparkler bombs”.. I’ve seen them DEMOLISH a Fridge/freezer combo with two.

Ed would've admired their work, for sure!

 

[HorseloverFat]

Also, pertaining to “not for show-floor quality” pieces from my last firing.. this textured, planting tray... I like It.. but... it’s construction taught me how NOT to make them! Just how to do it MUCH better next time.

It’s strong.. and straight/sturdy..

Just the previously mentioned design flaws.. aaaand some superficial cracking around some edges.. I believe this to be due to the marked “gung-ho” attitude I had about brush-on-slipping those edges... (yes, @sorce , i know ).. but we learn.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Keeping full tanks with a valve to switch between the 2 is easier.

I must’ve missed this!

THIS’d be the way to go... and just submerged in water... enough water to 1/3 submerge TWO tanks could NEVER be frozen up by ONE tank.

I’ve been swapping tanks like a caveman!!!

 

[HorseloverFat]

 

[Kanorin]

Log cabin Penjing/Saikei/Something uniquely North American but is so cutting edge that it doesn't have a name yet?
I'm into it.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Thought I’d share my youngest, Jasper’s, structure/pot.. he is very proud.. and wants to grow a “Bonsai-chi”, as he says, in it.

 

[ShadyStump]

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Stop teasing me with picture of my dream home!

 

[Carol 83]

Thought I’d share my youngest, Jasper’s, structure/pot.. he is very proud.. and wants to grow a “Bonsai-chi”, as he says, in it. View attachment 404018View attachment 404019View attachment 404021

His dad is teaching him well, he should be proud.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Something kind of different that I’m working on. Peach Pit and “drift cone”-textured, where applicable.

I’m about half-done... realistically. Got some seams, some strait’nin’, and some wood and leather work left.. but I like it.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Thought I’d quick piss @sorce off with a picture of my Stainless Steel ruler AND show the inner dimensions.... getting two birds stoned at once.. .. or something like that.
still incomplete, obviouSly.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I am fairly pleased with this one.. AAAND got to try out a few new things... AAAAND test a new clay (Rocky Mountain Clay -BMX)...

just dry stuff now.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Here it WAS..
Then it... uh... walked into a door, officer! I swear!

I reeeaaally wish it would’ve “walked into a door” BEFORE i glazed it.. because NOW... the material is unusable.

 

[TinyArt]

I reeeaaally wish it would’ve “walked into a door” BEFORE i glazed it.. because NOW... the material is unusable.

Bummer!!!

 

[ShadyStump]

I Ieeeaaally wish it would’ve “walked into a door” BEFORE i glazed it.. because NOW... the material is unusable.

I seem to recall some show as a kid on a toilet factory. Don't remember specifics 30 years later, but they said that almost nothing in the porcelain manufacturing process got wasted, no matter what stage of production the mishap might have taken place in.

Maybe a bit of creative hope?

 

[HorseloverFat]

Oh there ARE things I can do with it.. like plaster for my woodfired kiln.. I just mean.. it will never be a “piece” again.

 

[sorce]

Bro....

Tis the season to preheat the kiln to 850F before loading it! Am I right or am I right!


Sorce

 

[HorseloverFat]

Oh my GOD!

My internet OR phone service has been JACKED up.. it takes me 5-10 minutes just to load a page... this is the first time the text bar loaded for me since a conversation with Hinmo a few days ago...

This is my “message in a bottle”

Oh also.. this fun thing from our trip to Green Bay today.

 

[HorseloverFat]

One in custody after SWAT situation on Green Bay’s east side prompted shelter-in-place alert

Green Bay Police say one person is in custody after an armed standoff on the city’s east side. A shelter in place alert has been lifted.

www.wbay.com

Here it is, actually..

 

[HorseloverFat]

Preparing specific burns to create specific ash batches (after a wonderfully revealing WSP video on ash glazes gave me a ton of reassurance on my theories surrounding ash-matter).. and ALSO harvesting ash for my Low-Fire/Wood-Fired Kiln in progress.

(I was able to utilize the shelves I warped )