Ice glazing

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So Club Mud is not... well heated. We have a lovely gas furnace in the main studio work space, there's a somewhat effective electric heater suspended in the back private studios, but the kiln room and the glazing room where I like to set up and work? Nada. Which was kind of an issue, this last glazing cycle, as temps were sub-freezing overnight, and not that warmer during the day, for better than a week. Fortunately, I brought a radiant heater from home, and found a small forced-air electric heater that only occasionally tripped its in-cord breaker, so given an hour or two, could get the back room warm. Nobody else was firing anything, though, so the kiln room was still like ice. As was the water in my wash-up bucket. Still managed to get a kilnload of pots glazed, in about a week-and-a-half. Some samples:


Pie plates...

casseroles...

serving bowls and pitchers. Also stick butter dishes, colanders, a whole bunch of mugs and bowls and stew mugs. Forty mugs for Great Harvest Bakery. Dinner and dessert plates, of which I was woefully low. It feels good to be properly stocked again!