Specialization

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Got another big stack of special orders for the next firing. Some are easy: regular items with special imagery (ferrets, angora rabbits, woodpeckers). Others are special shapes, so extra work. The ware board below has an extra-long butter dish body, parts for two intinction chalices and tiny patens for low-gluten hosts for a Lutheran church, and a special animal bank.

Here I'm using my Giffin Grip to--rather precariously--trim out the stem of the glass, before assembling all the pieces. Because they're designed for dipping, and, moreover, for containing both wine and grape juice, it takes three bowls to make two finished tops.