Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wood Fired?

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It's important to know your materials, whether you're working with wood or clay. As many readers here might know, I've done exte...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Muscle memory

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This is completely unrelated to woodworking, but then again... well, maybe it's not. My New Year's resolution last year was to learn...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Art-to-Art Palette

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An artist never argues with a little press. Well... unless it's bad press... Recently, a midwest regional art based online journal featu...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Furniture on Craigslist

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I love CraigsList, I've found some of the coolest things there, and met some outstanding people, too. Some have even become great frien...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

It's like having a personal woodworking tutor

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Ever have a question about something, and you wish you knew an expert in that area, so you could ask him or her about it? Like a car repair ...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Wood and Food / Food and Wood

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There was a story this past weekend in the NY Times Sunday Magazine that made me a little blue. Peg Bracken died this year. She wrote a ...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Buy Handmade and feel good about it

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I was just preparing to write about buying handmade, when the New Yor k Times beat me to it. I guess if I'm going to be scooped by so...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Making an impression

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Not much to report, other than I'm making some interesting ceramic platters, dishes and tiles. A friend of mine collects stamps - no, no...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Flower setting

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OK, so I'm not the most techno-oriented woodworker around. I can barely figure out all the settings on my cell phone, not to mention th...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

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Been firing the kiln nearly every other day, trying to keep up. More later.....
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Waterfall Glaze on sushi plates

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I received an e-mail from a friend recently, he said he was busier than a one-armed paper hanger. I'm not sure that's PC, but I can ...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

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I hate to say that this blog is a low priority, but when things gets hectic and sawdust is flying in my studio..... well, this blog gets pus...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Guacamole, anyone?

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It's been a while since I posted any new glaze test results here. If anyone's been following this blog, they know that I've been...
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Monday, September 10, 2007

An epiphany at 38,000 feet

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I had a woodworking epiphany several years ago, at 38,000 feet while on my way to San Diego for a little R&R. Looking back, it was a ben...
Monday, September 03, 2007

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I've started a killer restaurant review, and was going to post it here, but I keep thinking up new places to add to it. So for the time ...
Saturday, August 25, 2007

Let's talk Food...

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The mania continues.... OK, I lied- I'm not taking a break from my quest to develop a Waterfall Green glaze. I just ran out of ideas ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Is it green yet?

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We're in the dog days of summer here in Las Vegas. Even with a swamp cooler running non-stop, it's often over 90˚ in my studio. Runn...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

A loss in the world of Art

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I've lost a dear friend and mentor. For 40 years, Dena was a highly respected and accomplished art teacher in the Passaic, NJ school sys...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Close Up of Waterfall glaze

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Someone asked me to post a close-up of one of the tiles shown below. This is from the middle tile in the first picture below.
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Finally... Waterfall Green?

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Mastering Cone 6 Glazes has been an incredibly inspirational book for me. There's something about the Waterfall Brown glaze that is so a...
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