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Over 5 decades I have hand jiggered too many stone

Over 5 decades I have hand jiggered too many stoneware dinnerware pieces to count. The process is simple but demands attention because each thing you do creates its own effect. To hand form plates that look similar you must do the same thing to each piece which is harder than you may think. This is a wonderful exercise in paying attention and keeping mind focused on a single object.

Cause creates effect. The tangible doing makes the result.

Restraint to not over compress the soft quarter inch stoneware slab benefits from practice. One needs to build tactile sensitivity to the underliing plaster form. Assuming you want a uniform plate crossection.

#handmade #pottery #potterystudio #ceramic #clay #ceramics #design #tenfingerthinking #10fingerthinking #processdesign #Maine #downeast #artisan #craft @acadianps #coastalliving #mainehomes #onlyin207 #mainething #themainemag #attention @vivianshaochen

Bit of caffeinated juice to kickstart my day works

Bit of caffeinated juice to kickstart my day works best from a cup you've made yourself ~ aided and abetted by Zojirushi companion

#zojirushi #caffeine

Dan designed and built / double auger stainless pu

Dan designed and built / double auger stainless pug mill extruder auto feeding cone 10 porcelain

#pug mill #pugmill #clay extruder

When the Cat's away / mouse man plays

When the Cat's away / mouse man plays

Reading and making and playing / propagate possibi

Reading and making and playing / propagate possibility

# Yuval Harari #craftsmanship #10fingerthinking #mainekilnworks #artisanlab

Self feeding double auger Danco de-airing pug mill

Self feeding double auger Danco de-airing pug mill / artisan dan engineered from recycled nuclear power plant scrap (sans radioactive) power wedging plastic porcelain for hand jiggered cassoles.

#pugmill #wedgingclay #wedging #artisanmade #artisanengineering

Patty clay, patty clay, potter man, twist 'em, squ

Patty clay, patty clay, potter man, twist 'em, squeeze'em, throw 'em in the kiln

Textured stoneware tenmoku glazed cassole for cass

Textured stoneware tenmoku glazed cassole for cassoulet

Vanadium celedon hosts spent bay leaf "the riddle

Vanadium celedon hosts spent bay leaf "the riddle remained unsolved, secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening."

Porcelain / Stoneware / Black Walnut & 316 Stainle

Porcelain / Stoneware / Black Walnut & 316 Stainless

Fire / Earth / Water / Air

Fire / Earth / Water / Air

"The millstones of the gods grind late, but they g

"The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind exceedingly fine" ~ a mortar and pestle in every home and the patience to use it.

75 year old 'mud dauber' hand jiggering stoneware

75 year old 'mud dauber' hand jiggering stoneware dinnerware from 48 year old Brent Slab Roller slabs on a 50 year old Randall kick wheel—in circa 1860 General Store space converted 1971 to clay shops.

Winter has arrived in downtown West Gouldsboro, Ma

Winter has arrived in downtown West Gouldsboro, Maine—giving my Alternative Heating System, Wood Gun boiler, an opportunity to earn its keep. Seasoned wood stacked and ready to stoke via the generosity of my neighbors—the extended Mandala Farm family.

At a pre-pandemic farm supper a friend whispered in my ear, “when you die and go to heaven you actually end up at Mandala Farm”.

65 K clay slabs and counting — on my split and s

65 K clay slabs and counting — on my split and spread wider circa mid 70's Rob Brent slab roller — sooner or later (in the next odd thousand) I'll get distracted and knock a few of my teeth out.

Because planned obsolescence utterly bewildered Mr Brent, my slab roller will still be rolling when my motive force has ceased.

Peak Design's products guaranteed for life have upped the ante in Rob's play book ??
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#peakdesign #brentslabroller #finernfrogshair #slabware

A distant Bavarian cousin of Darth Vader — they

A distant Bavarian cousin of Darth Vader — they don't give them away in Cracker Jack boxes — descending the hole and the floor that Mandala Farm Et Al built.

One of the largest vacuum pump manufacturers, Busch has plants in Switzerland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Korea and the USA. Would you believe 0.1 hPa (mbar) @ 480 m³/h ? what a lot of negative pressure.
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#buschvacuum

Tufty Thesinger (my stainless Venco Pug Mill) is b

Tufty Thesinger (my stainless Venco Pug Mill) is back in harness with⠀a refurbished Busch rotary-vane lung transplant. Will my Australian pugmill reject the⠀German vacuum pump donor ?? My stoneware clay body hopes their courtship is short and marriage long.

What a lot a glaze'y color ==== #ceramicmeditatio

What a lot a glaze'y color
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#ceramicmeditation #glazed #ceramicglaze #everythingcolor #glaze

Everything's cracked ~ that's how the light gets i

Everything's cracked ~ that's how the light gets in
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#ceramics # vitreousglaze #kintsugicoming #kintsugilover

Life is what happens — an accident or a graceful

Life is what happens — an accident or a graceful mistake — wabi sabi / kintsugi opportunity
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#porcelainplate #ceramicmeditation #wabisabi #lifeiswhathappens #yingyang #kintsugiopportunity #sashimiplatter #sushiplate #ceramicglaze

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