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The cedar-shingled boat shop, the old jib crane in the gravel yard, the kiln shed and a stack of walnut slabs by the harbor

THE STUDIO / SINCE 2019

Two trades, one yard.

One of us throws stoneware. One of us builds furniture. The name is the two things in the yard: the kiln, and the old jib crane the boat shop left behind.

THE BUILDING

A boat shop with the door left open.

We started in 2019 in a boat shop on the harbor side of the village. The kiln went in first. The bench went in the next spring, where the boat lift used to be. The crane was already in the yard. We use it to lift walnut slabs off the stack and onto the sawhorses.

The shop is the front of the building. The studio is the back. On a release Saturday the sliding door is open by 10 and the kiln door stays open until noon.

Inside the shop: tagged pots on oak shelves, a walnut bench and a trestle table, the door open to the harbor
Hands pulling up the wall of a stoneware cylinder on the wheel

THE KILN / THE POTTER

Stoneware, made to be used.

Thrown on the wheel and fired to 2,345°F, hot enough that it goes in the dishwasher and lasts for decades. Every piece is marked underneath with the number of its firing, so it always says when it was made. The ash in our ash glaze comes from the shop stove, which burns the offcuts from the furniture.

How a firing works
The jib crane lifting a live-edge walnut slab off the stack

THE BENCH / THE JOINER

Walnut and white oak, no screws.

Held together with wooden pegs and wedges, the way furniture was built before screws, and finished with oil or soap. Everything can be repaired at a kitchen table, and if it can’t, we come and do it.

Made to order

HOW WE MAKE THINGS

Three weeks, two firings, one pair of hands.

Nothing here is poured into a mold or cut by a machine. A mug takes about three weeks to get from a ball of clay to the shelf, and a table takes about seventy hours at the bench. That’s why there are never many of anything, and why each one is a little different.

Trimming the foot of a leather-hard pot
Thrown
By hand on the wheel, one at a time
Trimmed
The next day, and the handle pulled and pressed on
Dried
Ten days, slowly, so it stays round
Fired twice
The second time to 2,345°F, over two days
Checked
Weighed, filled with water, tapped to hear it ring
Marked
Underneath, with the number of its firing
One mug
About three weeks

SEVEN YEARS IN THE YARD

  1. 2019The kiln goes in, in a former boat shop on the harbor side of Greenport.
  2. 2020The bench goes in the next spring, where the boat lift used to be.
  3. 2023Firing No. 1: sixteen pieces, sold from a trestle by the door.
  4. 2024The first Trestle Table leaves in a crate we built from its offcuts.
  5. 2025A firing about every eight weeks. The waitlist passes a hundred names.
  6. 2026Firing No. 14: twenty-nine pieces on three oak shelves.
The kiln opened after a firing, pots still on the shelves

Come and see the kiln.

40 Ropewalk Lane, Greenport. Thursday to Sunday, 11 to 5. When it’s cool, you can look in.

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