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Notes from the kiln and the bench.

Written after each firing, and whenever something breaks.

From above: slip-covered hands collaring the rim of a small cup on the spinning wheel2026.09.30 / THROWING / 3 MINTwenty cups off the humpOne cone of clay, twenty cups, about an hour. Then each one gets weighed.A tenmoku jug packed in paper honeycomb inside a double box2026.07.11 / SHIPPING / 3 MINHow a pot gets to youTwo boxes, paper honeycomb, and one drop test a day from 90 cm onto concrete.A walnut slab on sawhorses, chalked for cutting, two knots circled2026.06.06 / MADE TO ORDER / 4 MINWhy a table takes twelve weeksAbout seventy hours at the bench. The other nine weeks are waiting, mostly on purpose.A bisque bowl dipped into a bucket of pale ash glaze2026.04.18 / GLAZE NOTES / 3 MINAsh runs at cone 10We stopped fighting the drip. Where it lands is the kiln’s decision.A joiner driving an oak peg through a white oak joint with a mallet2026.04.02 / JOINERY / 3 MINDrawbored, not screwedAn offset peg pulls the joint tight and keeps it there, with no metal anywhere.A gloved hand sliding the last shelf into the loaded kiln2026.03.21 / SECOND FIRING / 3 MINEleven planters crackedA cold spot near the flue took the load. The twelfth is on the shelf.
NOTES BY FIRING6 NOTES
FIRINGDATENOTEPIECES
TERRACOTTA LOADMAR 21Eleven planters crackedPlanter

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