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Okay, so now we have completed and cut out our test tiles. And as you can see we have
a variety of different surfaces to test our glazes on. There is a small lip on the bottom
here that will catch any glaze that runs down and wants to run onto our camp shelf. There
are a couple of things, important things to recognize at this point before we fire this
part, these pieces. First of all it needs to get to this stage, which is dry clay, all
the moisture is out. As you can see it's dusty like that. Now what we can do at this stage
before they are dry, is turn them over. And let's say that we were using- we wanted to
use these for cone for firings. We can flip them over and mark on it that these will be
for cone for firings, like that. So this is a stage that we can still mark the clay. After
this, once it's like in this stage, it will be very hard to mark it. So now that we can
use these for cone for firings, if we want to do the cone 9 we can write different things
on different ones. Okay, so, you don't really need to worry about drying these out, they're
just test tiles. You can see how this mimics the side of a pot. And a normal test tile
would sit flat and the glaze would simply give you an idea of what the glaze would look
like when it's fired flat. The advantage of these is that they stand up and mimic a pot.
So you can actually get an idea of how the glaze looks like on a pot when you want to
use them. Like I said drying them out isn't a big deal, you don't need to worry about
them drying out quickly, you can simply leave them out. So these are pretty much done now.
So I've enjoyed having you here at my studio, I hope you've enjoyed being here. Join us
again, and learn how to make some more detailed projects, here in my studio.