Stuff About Making Ceramics

Well, its been a long time since I have posted and I have upgraded quite a bit to my homemade spray booth. Like the fountain pump, all these upgrades were through trial and error, so hopefully you can avoid my failures. Lol. I started with making a new stand out of redwood. My stand sits outside unprotected so it has to deal with rain. I tried coating the bottom of it with a "spray on plastic" to help with it sitting in water when it rains and such. I don't know if it is

I found the original plans through Pinterest and Youtube. You can click on either link to see 2 different videos. At the end of the Youtube video, the creator posted his email so you can request these plans. I have included the plans I received from Dale below with a few modifications on the Cable Winding. I decided to make a table top version since I'm primarily a wheel throwing kind of gal, but I do enjoy handbuilding. I didn't fill my pipes with cement, although I mi

I started ceramics at a community center where you just dipped your pieces and done. When I started to work in my own garage, with my own kiln, I had to change from cone 10 to cone 6. I didn't know what glazes I'd like or how they would react. Not to mention, there are so many colors to choose from! I love color and I wanted to try them all! Buying enough glaze to dip wasn't an option. That's just too darn expensive. What if I didn't like the glaze? I'd still have a t

I'll talk about why I spray glazes in another post, but now, let's talk about my spray booth. A friend of mine told me the idea of having a curtain of water to catch glaze overspray rather than a fan sucking it out. I thought that sounded brilliant. I started trying to find ideas on Pinterest. I had seen a shower stall cut down, but that seemed like a lot of work and I didn't know where to find one someone was throwing away. I wasn't about to buy one and then cut it in h

I started out with a photo booth I bought at Amazon. It was 24" square with white, blue, red and black backgrounds. It worked for most situations, but to be honest, the solid backgrounds always made me feel like they weren't very professional looking. I could never get the lighting correct, so I just left all the windows open and let the sunlight filter through the sides. It worked okay, but I still didn't feel like I was getting the kind of photos I wanted. So, I finall