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The Gatehouse Pottery: March 2012

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Thursday, 29 March 2012. Anne Mette Hjortshoj at Goldmark this weekend. Here's a link to Anne Mette's video. I haven't watched it because my crap BT internet of 200-odd kbps isn't enough, but I'm sure it'll be a good show. Not sure i'll get there though. Wednesday, 28 March 2012. What kind of an idiot. Would buy a really knackered broken-down fuel inefficient tipper truck, to wield things about the country, when it would be cheaper to hire one or just pay for the delivery of stuff. Saturday, 24 March 2012.

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The Gatehouse Pottery: April 2011

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Wednesday, 6 April 2011. Today I've been in Hunstanton demonstrating at the craft centre - Le Strange Old Barns - named because of the Le Strange family, it's not some silly faux franglais. Well, I threw about 100 lbs of clay plus, as some of it I threw twice! Heres some mugs and bowls and a platter made by beating the clay like Brandon demonstrated a few weeks back. I did a bigger one but it had that ridge that Brandon talked about - looks like it slumped. Which I think is due to glazing it whilst it wa...

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The Gatehouse Pottery: A couple more.

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Friday, 9 August 2013. This might get a bit boring after a while, but at the moment I am making more big pots. Here's the first from yesterday:. And the second one, which isn't as good:. And the pair, drying a bit in the sun. This is prior to giving them a slight trim around the base. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Computer Scientist and Potter. View my complete profile. Close Ups of Anagama Firing Effects. Rim carving this afternoon. Inspiring the next generation at Barrington Pottery. In the prese...

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The Gatehouse Pottery: Next firing.

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Sunday, 27 October 2013. I've been thinking about the next firing. The shelves of pots are filling up a bit. There are a few things there that I wanted to make more of. The oil bottles and the hanging vases, for a start. After the last firing, I knew some clays worked better than others. The Svend Bayer clay worked very well. Here's a mug, with a wonky rim - I've made another five, although they aren't as wide as this one. But they'll probably make the cut. I have also mixed a clay body based on a slip I...

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The Gatehouse Pottery: May 2011

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Sunday, 22 May 2011. For those not in the know, I am currently working three days a week back in the office world of IT. It's paying the bills and allowing me to spend four days a week doing other things. At the moment, since I have pulled out of Potfest Scotland, I am doing some of the garden chores. So this weekend I created this space:. Doesn't look that impressive, except to do it I had to fill this:. Well, I got some plants in to pots too - here's the window where the building rubble used to be:.

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The Gatehouse Pottery: September 2013

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Saturday, 14 September 2013. Well, it's here. With much help from my friend, Jon, who cut most of the bricks in to arch bricks,. We got the arch completed and pulled out the former. It was a nice feeling to see this. The iron work is holding nicely and hence the arch is staying up - I've put 4 inches of ceramic fibre as additional insulation. It looks good. We gave it a test spin, just because we could, really. Finally, here's a little video of us removing the arch former. Tuesday, 3 September 2013.

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The Gatehouse Pottery: Some woodfired big pots.

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Tuesday, 3 September 2013. Some woodfired big pots. At the firing course, we fired Sabine's soda kiln and Nic's groundhog kiln. I have already put up pictures of the pots from the soda kiln, but I couldn't get down for the opening of the groundhog last weekend. Fortunately a friend took some photos and has allowed me to use them. So here are three of the big pots that I made. I have also listed some pots on etsy. That's all for now - I am busy trying to get the new soda kiln finished, so more on that lat...

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The Gatehouse Pottery: Soda Kiln - first firing.

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Thursday, 10 October 2013. Soda Kiln - first firing. It's fair to say I've had some issues with the new kiln. I did one bisque firing, which went well, then started a soda firing, but had to abandon it as the temperature wouldn't rise past about 1000 degrees. But also lots of positives to work on, and a few things to discard (crank clay, even tempered with porcelain, isn't my thing - all those spots! Tea pot with grolleg slip - not pretty but best lid I've ever made. Another vase with the Svend Bayer clay.

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The Gatehouse Pottery: December 2012

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Sunday, 16 December 2012. Are people still visiting this blog? It would seem some of you are. Amazing. Well, tomorrow, I start my last week of paid work - 24 hours and that's that! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Computer Scientist and Potter. View my complete profile. Close Ups of Anagama Firing Effects. Rim carving this afternoon. Inspiring the next generation at Barrington Pottery. More recent Shino. Mostly High Alumina Mino. Summer Kiln Firing and Opening, Mark Hewitt Pottery (Firing 95, 2016).

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The Gatehouse Pottery: February 2013

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Monday, 25 February 2013. Pots from the mad wood kiln. So here are some pots from the little wood kiln we built on Saturday. They were better than I expected. There was a distinct two ends of the spectrum - where the flame came in to the chamber it had got hot, and then under the flu exit, the flame didn't hit the pots at all so there simply were under fired. Sunday, 24 February 2013. Fun on a Sunday morning. Well, a chap I met on facebook - Hamish - decided he wanted to fire some pots. I'd kind of a...