Kiln unloading 09:28:25

Vaughan Smith
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Variations of glazes in two kiln firings with a great remedy for pin holes in glazes. Pieces include planters, fish sculptures and lots of functional ware.
Hi, this is Vaughn at westcobelp
pottery.ca, Nova Scotia, Canada. Um, I
just showed you a bunch of photographs
of the garden. It's September 18th.
Amazing. Almost 3 weeks of this month
gone. So, we're in that danger zone now
where we can get some cold nights. Um,
but um the garden's looking good. And
one year we had a good uh flowery sort
of courtyard here right into December.
So, who knows? I might be watering for a
long time yet. Okay. Cone six oxidation.
Okay. Let's open her up.
Okay.
Uh, no disasters that I can see yet. I
just said a mouse run across the
courtyard.
Um, okay. How hot? Uh, it's hot, but I
can touch it. But I think I'll leave the
top for a little while. Um, I have a
really large whale in this firing um
somewhere down there. Hard to figure out
where it was. Um, I think it's on here.
How hot is that?
Well, didn't stick to a kil shelf.
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Okay,
it's another triple whale. And I just
did a video on making this. Um, so I
thought, okay, this one has to be remade
and I just remade it. Uh, slightly
different variation on the other one. I
could show you both, I guess. Um, so I
will probably frame this with a
background painted around it as well,
but it didn't stick or crack to the kill
shelf.
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Okay, got some small whales.
I've been selling the wall pieces off
the front of the studio all summer and
had to keep making them just about every
10 days. I'd rather batch of about 20.
Um so, um just did a whole bunch this
time and they'll be around for a long
time too because now the season is kind
of over. Um things are slowing down. I
don't sell as many off the front until
Christmas.
So, I'll go through these quickly. Um,
there's another one there.
Something blew out right where the hole
is there. I'll have to refire this one.
Here's a good one as well. Nothing wrong
with this one.
And here was a fish that had not made it
through the last firing with all the
fish. So, um, so I did another one. It
wasn't one of the happy fish. It was
more subdued coloring. The glaze is like
bright blue, variegated blue, apple
green, and some soal white. Very long
traditional whale.
Not sure what if this was bright blue or
if it was my powder blue.
Another small whale. So, just that one
blowout on one of them.
Oh, that's interesting.
I mixed up a new um oatmeal and it's
sort of got a dusty pink cuz it's
supposed to be the beach sort of
yellowish color. I'm not quite sure what
that um caused that cuz chrome tin pink
usually does that and both glazes didn't
have chrome tin pink uh any chrome in
them and there's no chrome in that piece
as far as I can tell with the glazes. So
I wonder what I did. Maybe there was
some in the paintbrush that was painting
some glaze left over.
And it did it to all of them.
It's still nice. It just uh was supposed
to be sandy yellow,
but some of the gassing off fumes from
when a glaze is fired, cuz this has
chrome in it. Uh, this is my raspberry
glaze and there's just a tiny bit of
chrome in the glaze, but the fumes from
it can actually affect other tin glazes
in your firing.
It could be that just a little bit of
this in the kil affects the whole kil
atmosphere,
but that's a nice look. Raspberry with
variegated blue and oak wall.
And there's a couple of little tea
bowls.
same glazes, but the green on the bottom
is my matte turquoise because it always
shows up chattering so well.
John Green always shows up chattering
really well, too. Variegated blue
oatmeal and bright blue on that with the
John Green.
A little bit of cranberry with some
accents there.
Now, there's my
oatmeal with no chrome tin pink in it.
So, my guess is that wasn't the reason
that other stuff went to that color. Um,
because there's no chrome tin pink in
these pieces. So, I think it was the
paintbrush.
Oh, look at all the Everything was
perfect and then you get one out with
some blister bubbles.
Isn't that weird?
I'll have to refire it. might be easy
enough to do. But why?
Okay, I've talked about this in videos
before when they come out of the kiln.
All got pin holes, craters, people call
them different things, but it's where
the glaze has potentially had some dust
on the piece when you glazed it and that
stops the glaze from adhering. Or it
could be that the piece is starting to
be overfired. Um, or it could even be
underfiring. I mean, there's so many
things nobody really knows. I guess uh
it could be whatever for every different
reason, different glazes and so on. But
to get rid of them, what I've discovered
is if I take this, which is the sludge,
off the side of my glaze bucket, and if
you're a really good potter, you don't
let that build up cuz you just wipe your
inside of your sponge, your bucket down
every time you glaze. But who's got time
for that? Um, so I just put it on the
piece and basically spend some time just
you know a minute
just brushing around
wherever I've got those pin holes.
So obviously you've got to try and use a
glaze that you've actually got on a
piece already
and it will show. So I've got I've got
bright blue in the center of this and
I'm looking for where the pin holes are.
brushing it and I've got way too much on
there. So then I get another piece. Let
me get one out.
I've got another one there that has the
same problem. So I simply take it when
I've got a nice amount obviously sitting
inside all those pin holes. Then I sort
of smooth it off leaving as much on as
possible and drop it onto the next piece
that I have to do or back into the glaze
bucket. And then just kind of try and
make it sort of presentable, I guess.
So, we don't want it to look horrible on
your finished piece.
I found that I can do this a lot with
the oatmeal glaze that I use. The bright
blue on these pieces I've done before
and it looks good. It actually looks
really good sometimes. I don't know why
that is, but I fetched balls out that
look were so much better than when they
went in. not just the pinhole covering
but the glaze covering and everything.
So it looks like that
and then basically let it dry and then
put it in the kil and the other glob
that we have here. I'll just move on to
the next piece and do the same thing
again. This one's got pin holes worst of
all of them. So I'm going quite high up
here
and pieces are there were about I don't
know 16 of these in the kil I think and
you know I've got
six of them. So, eight of them didn't do
it. So, that's why I say it's very hard
to know exactly what causes it.
But my suspicion is that it's just some
dust maybe from when I was glazing when
the glaze wasn't adhering properly in
those spots.
But just, you know, I guess not cleaning
your glaze bucket on the glazes has its
benefits,
but you don't want it to get crumbly and
fall back into your glaze. But there's
another one. So, I'm going to refry
these and I'll show you what they look
like at the end of the video.
Two more identically glazed. No blister
bubbles.
And two more. And this one does have
some blister bubbles.
Very strange. Two two refires.
I'll just glaze over them again with the
same colors and then the blisters will
go away. Another one. And this just has
a few.
It's possible
that there could have just been some
dust on the piece,
but anyway, I can get rid of them in the
next firing.
Two more tea bowls.
Another one of the Cove series mugs.
one of the shake it up. This was a
refire
because there were some um blister
bubbles on this one and I refiried it
and they're gone.
And two more.
And two more of those. These turned out
really good. Cranberry is working really
good in the gas grill. Better than in
the electric field.
Wow. This was a refire, too.
and it came out really good.
And then this one also was a refire and
that came out really good. So when I get
those little kind of strange look almost
underfiring results, I just refire it
with the glaze over again and it works
even better. So maybe I should do that
deliberately.
This is a cove one. Um I don't know what
I did differently.
cuz the blue is all the way down. I was
probably dreaming, daydreaming while I
was glazing. There's another refire.
That one's very nice, too.
Wow. This is very strange.
I think
this is
cranberry. Yeah, it's cranberry.
Oh, look at all the crawling. I got to
refire this one. When that happens, I
take the sludge off the side of the
glaze bucket with a pallet knife and I
pull it across and smooth smooth smooth
until it fills in all the little
craters. Um, and then I refire it. So,
I'll have to do it a little bit here.
The glaze seems like it was really thick
and that's what caused that. But what
gave me this purple effect using the
raspberry glaze, I do not know.
This is an order for somebody who wanted
some Nova Scotia mugs. So, I've done a
whole set that she can pick her
favorite. And they each one are a
slightly different color. So, these two
are the same, but I wanted to give her
choices.
And I use the blue green copper right
above apple green on that one. And I
think I have blue on the bottom, but it
seems to have faded out. Mostly the blue
on that one.
Two more.
That one I can't quite figure out what I
did there,
but they were all the cove style glazing
with different colors to kind of see if
I could come up with a slightly
different effect that was really nice.
This is a special order which took a
while to make um for a lady who has a
charity organization. I made these once
before and she wanted three more. So,
it's uh for volunteers that that work
for her.
These people grant wishes to children
with illnesses.
The volunteers take the children for a
whatever the wish is. Go to the zoo or
meet somebody hopefully famous.
This was a refire as well. Um and boy my
refires all so much nicer.
Um, I just, you know, I some sort of
crawling going on and I, uh, just, you
did what I just described, you know,
with a thick pasty glaze from the side
of the bucket. Um, and it really turned
out nice.
This is Chun Green. There'll be a bunch
of noodle bowls with chopsticks in the
gallery coming in this fine, but the
chattering is really nice.
The cones on the bottom. What did I do
with the top one? Oh, here it is.
Uh
top bottom pretty perfect again.
Here are two identically glazed balls.
Both looking pretty nice. This one was
close to the gas flame, so it's got a
bit bleached out,
but the chattering is really cool. That
one. Lovely.
And there's another one of them.
Oh, a few drips there, but I don't think
that's very zen.
And two more Cove series mugs.
Now we got some frames.
So, I have tiles ready to go in these.
Another one, too.
We are we have gaps on the walls in the
gallery. So these will get framed.
Another one of those. It's folk art
white and bright blue.
And there's another one with pin holes.
So I reglaze that one too. Just a few
little frame.
And the same shelf. No pin holes.
Is that weird?
Dark blue. bright blue oatmeal.
The dark blue is spectacular in the gas
kil.
It does however depend on where it is in
the kiln because this one's a little bit
more matte than this one which um
identically glazed but different places
in the kiln and gas kils do that. You
can see there's a satinness to this one
in places.
Bizarrely, I never used a cranberry for
a long time. It's raspberry or cranberry
I call it. Um, and um, in the gas kil it
looks terrific. Um, you almost have that
kind of copper red look with it, but in
the electric k it's dead. It's boring.
So, um, but anyway, these look nice.
There's some noodle balls. I did some
sort of odd splashing in that one. You
can see
maybe you can't see this with a
paintbrush. I was just flicking and just
to give it a kind of abstract look.
Didn't show up enough. and more
purple,
chun green, and bright blue with our
variegated blue and oatmeal. So, that
one looks really good on the outside.
It's hard to see. I'm not sure if you
can see, but there was splashes of
bright blue over the dark blue to kind
of give a see whether it would give me a
a nice effect. And it just isn't visible
enough. I hope you can hear the seagulls
above. They're just running around on my
metal roof.
They have those flat flat flat kind of
feet
cuz they slip on a metal roof so it
makes a lot of noise.
Another cranberry which is really rich.
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I mentioned it many times before but my
glazes are mostly from mastering cone
six glazes by uh I think it's John
Ronroy John Hessleworth.
It's about 50 bucks to buy the book.
It's a terrific book. There's more
glazes in there that I'll never use in
my life.
There's a dark blue bowl.
Two dark blue tea bowls with bright blue
and oatmeal as well with with matte
turquoise on the bottom.
This is one of my glaze experiment mugs
where I'm doing the dots and stripes.
And you can see the stripes there. Just
using slip trails for glazes. It
encourages runs.
Chun green with variegated blue and
oatmeal over the top. Dark blue
variegated blue and oatmeal over the top
as well.
Have a a run with a tendu gold.
Surprise surprise.
But I can grind it off. It's just a
little bump on one side. So that'll be
savable.
But um really pretty when it runs. It's
pretty. But I think on the outside of
these pieces, I'm just going to have to
admit to using a different glaze on the
bottom than I do with tendu on the top
and then just let it run down into a
matte glaze on the bottom so that we
don't encourage the run further down.
And the same again. So stop dipping this
one all the way into the tenuk gold for
the first dip because it gets the inside
and the outside, but that's what you
get. So another grinding. This one you
can see a bit better, I think, where I'm
splashing the bright blue over the dark
blue to give it a It doesn't show up
enough though. Got to figure out a
different glaze to do that. And then
another beautiful cranberry.
I did some carving on the outside of the
clay on this one.
And then it's basically dark blue,
bright blue, and oatmeal,
matte turquoise, and then the chun green
with variegated blue and over. And
that's what I was doing. Splashing
glazes. Now, this obviously shows up
really well, but I don't like it. So,
I'll have to do something on the inside
there.
There's another frame.
Here's one a little different. I did
some green on the outside with the blue,
too. I like that. Should have done it to
the others.
There's a little scrap of clay I had
left over. So, I put some whales on it.
Apple green blue with some oatmeal dab
dabbed over the upper, you know, the
raised areas of the whales.
At the end of each day, if you have
bunches of little scraps of clay over in
like an extra 15 minutes to half an
hour, you could make a bunch of these at
the end of the year, you made a lot of
extra money. So, so I just push myself a
little bit at the end of each day and I
look around and see if I've got any bits
left over from whatever I've been
building. And then you can just knock
out a few extra pieces and that may be
the difference between and it may
actually pay for the entire firing of
the kill. So, so it's worth pushing a
little bit of extra. And there's a
dolphin mug lecturing.
The larger of the frames in here.
And there's another one. The last one, I
think. Yeah. No more frames in here. I'm
glad I did the green on it. I like that.
Here's
a couple of noodle bowls in the Cove
series with lots of chattering on the
outside. That worked really nice.
Another cranberry which is really nice.
Wow,
this one really work. Nice.
No crawling. Good. So the cranberry
glaze
is really wow. It's like almost a
reduction
ox blood red copper red.
Two more noodle bowls.
And I think this is the purple and this
is the cranberry.
purple with variegated blue and oatmeal.
And then here's one. I did the dashes
and dots slip trailing experiments with
the glazes and that worked out nice.
These have been selling quite well. I
put an extra $4 on the price for each
mug when I'm doing all this extra slip
trailing glazing.
The little tea bowls have been very
cute.
Another
one different on the bottom to the other
one. That's really I love that little
bit up there that looks like the uh
purple or the cranberry in there.
And this is a Cove series ball,
but in the glaze colors, but it's
actually a different design. This mug is
spectacular.
And so is that tea ball.
And two more of them.
Get two more co series.
This was a refire.
Dark blue with very bright blue and
oatmeal over the top.
And finally, last two in the firing, two
cove bowls for noodles.
Well, it's September 28th today and we
still have flowers. My sister said they
had frost in England already, but um so
uh so I feel lucky that's uh you know,
we're going to get into October. There's
no cold nights coming up. We lower down
to about 10° each night, but um that's
not bad if it's centigrade. Anyway, I
got a kill unloading to do now.
>> Okay, this was like what I didn't get
into the last firing. And so,
>> yeah. Anyway, I've got Tenmu gold and
matte turquoise
overlapping in the center give me that
lime green, which is really nice. And
then I got oatmeal on the top. So, too
bad nobody will see the inside cuz it'll
be covered in soil. But another matte
turquoise.
some drips there. It's kind of nice.
Drips are always one of those things you
wonder, does it look like a mistake or
is it just nice and kind of just the way
it's going to be? But matte turquoise
and then over the top I don't even know.
I think I did dark blue, but um uh I
have no clue.
I don't think it was dark blue, but it
could have been. And I may have even had
oatmeal over the edge as well. Just
don't remember. Another Ten Maku with
matte turquoise overlapping with oatmeal
on the top. They always look kind of
nice.
Oh, that one's very pretty. Tenmaku. I
must have done it thinner. I'm not sure,
but it looks very nice. And look at that
yellow where the matte turquoise and the
tenmu overlap.
Where did that come from?
I have no clue. But it's Tenmaku gold
and matte turquoise. We better remember
that because it's really good. I think I
did that once before. This one's really
nice.
Another one there.
That yellow's going to have to try that
deliberately. So, I guess it was 10 mu
gold
and then matte turquoise I think was
dipped over the top. But I could try
both way rounds to see what happens. But
it's really pretty.
Okay, I'm just taking out a couple of
the little trays I did with um
under these are done with underlazes on
a B-Mix
V-Mix clay.
So this is um the kind of technique
where I put one uh layer of the
underlazes
on
um for the bisque firing and then a
second layer goes on before the glaze
firing.
And that's how you get this sort of rich
surface of things going into the carved
areas and other colors on the top
surfaces.
This is very hot. Not too bad.
Again, this is Bmix clay.
When I'm doing this, I kind of let one
when I'm doing that second layer, I kind
of let the one color kind of come into,
let's see, come into the other areas.
You can see over the ears here. Um, so
that doesn't look like coloring book.
And this one is slightly different in
that I did not rub in a second layer.
I just left it at the first layer that I
put on before the bisque.
This this one is different also because
it has spriged decoration. You know,
these shells and things that I um put
the clay in a mold and um
this is also quite hot.
Little bit of spriging at the bottom.
This is kind of hot to hold right now.
That's it.
You just do these to make use of little
scraps that are left over.
Okay,
>> I'll show you this one a bit closer cuz
this was too hot for Jackie to hold, but
I think I have no sense left in my
fingertips at all.
>> The sprigging's at the bottom. You can
see the shells and then the rest of it
is done with textured stamps.
This level is just a bunch of trays to
match the planters.
And I kept it simple by doing matte
turquoise and variegated blue cuz that's
what I had on the pieces. I have a bunch
of these for an order. Somebody wanted
two. So, I think I made four so they can
pick their favorites. Variegated blue on
the bottom with blue green copper red on
the top. And this is the variegated blue
on the bottom here
with regular blue up above and then
oatmeal over the top. Two more of the
same here. This one was different. And
that I did the matte turquoise with the
variegated blue above and then the um
oatmeal above that.
I have some uh colanders in here, too.
And those are the bottoms to the
colanders. And there's a nice little
bowl. Cranberry with variegated blue and
oatmeal, which didn't really do that
much. It's okay, but bit dull. And then
there's a mug. You've seen many of these
in my other fires. I started doing
bright blue and oatmeal over the top of
my dark blue because the um variegated
blue does not like to be over the top of
the dark blue. And this one didn't do
any crawling. So, good move.
Okay, this is what I've been waiting
for. Um, these are the pieces. Earlier
in this video, I showed you how I get
rid of pin holes, craters, pin holes.
People call it by different names. Look
at that reflection. No pin holes. So, it
works.
And these are the There's about seven of
these, I think, in this fine. We'll see
if all of them came out just like this,
which is actually great cuz I saved a
bunch of pieces.
Here's
the second one.
Totally worked. Really nice.
Bunch more bottoms for the colanders.
So, I'll show you those later as I get
them out.
Here's number three.
Perfect.
Four and five.
This one has some really subtle ones
that are still there. But let me see
whether there. This one doesn't. Totally
clear.
Just
there. Totally smooth.
And these are totally smooth, too. But
there's still remnants of them. But
that's totally sailable now. Little
dishes for the colanders is I think
number six
of these. Maybe it's number seven. I I
think there's six or seven in the fine,
but it worked. That's a really good
technique if you want to save a piece.
This is the refire from the last
earlier in this video where I had a
little bit of something missing just
there. And I'm not sure what had
happened, but it looked like some
something had popped out from the clay,
but this time it's worked fine.
And these
have pin holes as well. And this is a
different one that I did, but it is the
variegated blue which was in the other
piece in the center there as well that's
doing these pin holes. So, it's not in
the rest. Oh, it is in the bright blue,
too. So, that's interesting. But, I'll
have to do the same rescue on this one,
too.
Same glazes didn't do it. It's
interesting. I don't know where this
pink is coming from. It's in my yellow.
And I brushed this on again and we've
got the same pink. And I just tried a a
different way of doing it on another set
of plates. Going in the next firing.
Another one. Another one. No pin holes
in these.
Two more. And no pin holes. So I'm just
It could be just dust, but I doubt it.
Here
is a large sink that I glaze by brushing
at an angle with bright blue, variegated
blue,
and oatmeal.
Pretty interesting. It's nice. Looks
like the water's swishing down the
sinkhole.
Couple of tankers.
There's some pin holes on this one, too.
I wonder if it was a little hot in the
kiln. I have to look at the cone.
Well, the cone is bent
kind of similar to my previous firings.
So, but you know, it's completely over.
So, that's that means it was definitely
cone six to 6 and 1/2.
Couple of sunny tankers for your
afternoon beer sitting in a garden with
lots of flowers. Looks very pretty.
Somebody had a special order. Wanted
some throwing ring mugs. I did this.
It's an order. They want two of them and
they wanted them huge like two pint
mugs.
So, I think these are easily two pints.
And two more.
be kind of heavy to pick up once you got
that full of two pints of beer.
But they wanted they wanted them
slightly squared at the bottom and lots
of throwing rings.
Two more of these which have that pinky
glow in them. No clue where did that
come from. It was my yellow and my
oatmeal that I mixed together to give
myself a slightly sier color. And it's
just, you know, it's just coming out.
And I thought it was the brush, but
these were with a different brush. No
idea. Just have no idea.
Now we have a bunch of fish, which I
tried adding my cranberry to. So, these
will be risky. I'm not sure if people
will go for the cranberry in such a
large area. I don't usually use it too
much like that. Although, the cranberry
mugs recently been really nice. Here's
another one.
I'm not sure about the lips either
because I did brown over the oatmeal.
I could always refire these, I suppose,
if I if they don't sell.
And another one. Be interesting to see.
It'll look different on the display, so
it'll add a lot of variation to the
colors I've already got up there. So, it
might work in a whole on in a large
picture of looking at the ball swimming
on the front of the building.
I also dabbed another color over the
cranberry that kind of seem all it did
was sort of dull it a little bit. That's
interesting. The cranberry absorbed
whatever color it was I was dabbing over
the top. I think I did some oatmeal for
sure.
Oh, that one's better. I like it better
on the fins than on the actual body.
Yeah, this is different. I'm not sure if
I like the cranberry. I did a lot.
Oh, the cranberry and the purple
together, too.
That could be why there's a lot of
chrome in these two purple and and
cranberry glaze. So, it could be that if
anything in this kil has got chrome in
it, the sandy color in those plates is
just going pink. Boy, what a hard thing
to remember not to do. I like the lips
being green better on this one.
Another one
should be like that maybe or like that.
Another one.
And that's the last fish. So maybe I'll
never do a cranberry fish again. But um
I mean it's not ugly, but it's just I
don't know. Some people may like it.
Especially red and green should never be
seen. Okay, now I've got a bunch of
pieces which I was looking forward to
seeing where I went and did that
experiment again with the dots and
dashes and this one is not good. Um I
feel like it the little dot did um run a
little bit. So I don't like this one at
all. So I'm still feeling this has
potential, but you've got to get it much
closer together with the dots and the
dashes.
This is when it works perfectly.
So here I'm getting it exactly what I
want. Dots and dashes and no 10mu run
down the handle cuz I thinned my 10mu
gold down. And uh and it still works
because you got some flex in it. Not as
many, but you still have some. And that
that one I like a lot. Here's one where
I did dots and dashes
and the dashes are the blue ones and the
dots are the white
but encouraging the runs basically.
Whoa. I did little curves on this one. I
remember doing it. Slip training little
like little domes with the slip trailer
and then dots of blue in the center. So,
that one worked really nice.
Another
dashes, little dashes
encouraging runs because they were
vertical dashes rather than horizontal.
But it could have been just dots. I
don't remember. But it was it looks like
dashes, but I think it might have just
been dots that are running down. So,
isn't that nice? This one was definitely
dashes, but I remember doing that. So,
this the other one was dots. This was
probably the dash one. Those are my
fingerprints when I glaze it on the
bottom.
Should I be getting rid of those?
Because I could wipe them off.
This is another one with those little
This is another one with those little
curves,
like little arches.
This one's another dotted one.
So, I think I just need the dots closer
together. Although, this is much better
than the other one, which I did random.
This one I did lines of dots. And here
there's another dots. Dash is the one
with and I've put cranberry on the
bottom of all of them. I'm not sure if
I'll do that again either. Boy, I had a
quite a hit with cranberry this firing.
This is the purple with cranberry and
then variegated oatmeal.
Interesting.
Not my fave.
Skip over them. But there's another one
of the little tea balls.
I will show you this one from this shelf
because this is a slop green glaze that
I have
um where I mixed a couple of different
old greens together to kind of see what
they looked like and it came out
beautiful.
This was a refire
and I showed it in the other firing and
it it actually came out really nice on
the outside, but the inside is a little
bit weird.
Little noodle bowl. The outside's really
pretty though. Now I have a whole bunch.
This is my fake ash glaze, and I dipped
apple green over the top of it.
I love that. That is really nice.
So I have a to ponder this. I am going
to mix my fake glaz fake ash glaze 50/50
with my apple green glaze and see what
it does. That would be interesting cuz
the fake ash glaze crumbles when you put
it on the surface. So I can only get
this if I glaze fire fake ash on the
piece complete and then dip it in the
apple green afterwards and then fire
them again. But it looks really sweet.
But I wonder what would happen if I did
it all 50/50 in one glaze batch. There's
a little tray that goes with it.
Little tea bowls.
So I have a whole batch of tea bowls.
Two more little drinking glasses.
Here's another fake ash one. And in this
one, I did the apple green on the rim
and also in the bottom area and just
brushed it on.
But isn't it sweet? I love that. So, I
got to play with these two glazes.
Two more berry balls here. So, I have
little plates to go underneath these as
well.
Sometimes I make really deep ones.
People always want the deep one,
but it kind of looks big to me. But um
two more.
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So there's the apple green one.
Can you hear the pigeon?
Now we shut up.
They're all nesting in the eaves of this
building.
Special order for somebody. I think
they're going to love them. They look
terrific. Glad they worked out. That
brown yellowy line that goes between
those glazes, just bright blue,
variegated blue, and oatmeal, but it
looks terrific when it does that. It
doesn't always do it. This is a refire.
Earlier in this video, you saw this bowl
with all the crawling on it.
And on the inside, it did good. And on
the outside, it still crawled cuz all
the glaze ran down.
I don't know if I'm going to fire that
again. And I may knock a few dollars
off.
Two more tea bowls.
Cranberry and purple.
And just cranberry with variegated blue
and oatmeal over it.
Dark blue. And then the matte turquoise.
Both have variegated blue and oatmeal
over the top. Oh no, I stopped and I did
bright blue and oatmeal over the dark
blue ones because it doesn't work
anymore with the variegated blue. Here's
one with sunny yellow. I think this one
will sell. Makes the kitchen look bright
and cheerful.
Dark blue, bright blue, and oatmeal.
Focal white with green. Beautiful.
Go with the little tray. matte turquoise
and oatmeal with green. That's the size
of the tray I like to do with these
tentacle gold
variegated blue and oatmeal.
This is that slot green glaze. Oh, I
should be remembering to use this more
during the summer. It's almost the end
and I forgot to because it would have
been good to get a bunch of these pieces
out for the winter months when I can't
do it probably. I don't think it will
work in the electric hill. I seem to
remember discovering that
dark blue and a cranberry one.
We just had like 10 cars go by so I
didn't see any. Um it's too noisy with
the traffic. But um uh anyway um I tried
shipping to the US with the tariff thing
going on at the moment. Um and I put the
same two mugs in twice. Um first it came
out with a tariff of 2961.
I cancelled that one to see if I put it
in again what would happen. And the
second time it came out with a tariff of
3653.
So it's random. The tariff will be just
applied whatever their AI says. And the
mugs are worth 34 each, $68 total. And
the AI generated a value of $95. Uh, or
was it $90 something? Anyway, a lot more
than they were selling for uh by at
least $10 each. So, so it's not fair on
you. And of course, it's not fair on us
either. So, so anyway, um at the moment,
I'm unless you really if you want to pay
the tariff, I will do my best to get it
uh shipped to you. Um but um but I'm not
shipping to the US unless the customer
pays the tariff. So sorry about that. So
it just makes it not profitable to ship.
So but if you want it and you're paying
the tariff, I'll ship it to you. Thanks
for watching.
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