Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
All right so you want to start, I'm going to make this thing bigger. Real big. You've
got to understand that throughout the firing process this is going to get fired up to about
2300 degrees Farenheit and what's going to happen with this clay body, this piece here
when its green it’s going to shrink 30% when its finally finished with all its glaze.
So we're going to lose 30% of this volume. So you want to make everything uncharacteristically
big and anticipate that 30% shrinkage because you don't want to be sitting there with this
tiny little coffee cup. And some people like tiny little coffee cups and somebody will
buy that but I like them to be generally substantial size. And these are mid range. We're going
to make a, we're going to make a substantially sized tumbler here. Something that you fill
up with iced tea and sip on for a while. And it’s going to be very unique. So you want
to take into consideration that 30% shrinkage when it comes to stoneware. When it comes
to firing up to those high temperatures. Now with decorative ceramics that's different
but when you're dealing with utilitarian objects that are going to get fired up to stoneware
temperatures 30% shrinkage is always want to consider that. So here we go, we're going
to throw that big old tumbler.