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offcntrI'm back in the studio again, getting a head start on pots for my end-of-October firing. I'm pretty much caught up on graphics for Clay Fest and Clayfolk, just have the CF map to do, and soon I'll need to be sorting and stickering pots, loading up the van. So I figure, busy is coming, lets get in some throwing time while it's still relatively quiet.
Started with two bags--50 lbs.--of mugs for Great Harvest Bakery. Figured they hadn't reordered in a while, so it couldn't hurt. As it happened, when I stopped in for bread on Thursday, Gordo told me they were completely out, he'd be happy to take all 40 mugs when they come out of the fire.
Went from there to stew mugs, 32 of them; even after my last firing, I'm running low again. For some reason, they're suddenly more popular than soup bowls, which makes no sense to me. The bowls hold more, and stack neatly in the cupboard. But what do I know, after all? I'm just the potter.
Also made a batch of batter bowls, as they're also flying off the shelves. Always liked this shape, and the handles--not yet attached in these pics--are so cool.
Next, I went for silly. I'm running low on dinosaur banks and salt and pepper shakers. The shakers are pretty quick, since most of the detail is painted on with the glaze. The banks... not so much. I made 25 lbs.--a dozen--each of brontosaurs and stegosaurs. Actually, that only counts the bodies. With heads, legs, and all those spines, it's easily another bag of clay, so 75 lbs. total. I made the parts on a Thursday, let things get leather hard--or cheese-hard, asrachelmanija recently discovered--overnight, then spent a very long Friday assembling all the bits.
Lastly, I took some time to make some weird special orders, definite one-offs. One of these pots is for weighing coffee beans before they go in the grinder. The other is a grease tray for a cast-iron bacon press. Can you guess which is which?
Started with two bags--50 lbs.--of mugs for Great Harvest Bakery. Figured they hadn't reordered in a while, so it couldn't hurt. As it happened, when I stopped in for bread on Thursday, Gordo told me they were completely out, he'd be happy to take all 40 mugs when they come out of the fire.
Went from there to stew mugs, 32 of them; even after my last firing, I'm running low again. For some reason, they're suddenly more popular than soup bowls, which makes no sense to me. The bowls hold more, and stack neatly in the cupboard. But what do I know, after all? I'm just the potter.
Also made a batch of batter bowls, as they're also flying off the shelves. Always liked this shape, and the handles--not yet attached in these pics--are so cool.
Next, I went for silly. I'm running low on dinosaur banks and salt and pepper shakers. The shakers are pretty quick, since most of the detail is painted on with the glaze. The banks... not so much. I made 25 lbs.--a dozen--each of brontosaurs and stegosaurs. Actually, that only counts the bodies. With heads, legs, and all those spines, it's easily another bag of clay, so 75 lbs. total. I made the parts on a Thursday, let things get leather hard--or cheese-hard, as
rachelmanija recently discovered--overnight, then spent a very long Friday assembling all the bits.Lastly, I took some time to make some weird special orders, definite one-offs. One of these pots is for weighing coffee beans before they go in the grinder. The other is a grease tray for a cast-iron bacon press. Can you guess which is which?
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Date: 2024-09-30 02:48 pm (UTC)Taking a second look at the heart-shaped mouths on those banks, I suspect that banks have more purposes than hording cash.