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Pottery Techniques, Tips, Technical

Forming Techniques

  • Learning to Throw on the Potters Wheel – Marvin Bartel
  • Pottery Tutorial – John Hester
  • Abbot Pottery – pinch pots, slabs, coils, throwing
  • Popular Pottery Techniques – a brief explanation of methods
  • Pottery On the Wheel – Steve McDonald – a wealth of information about throwing pottery on the wheel
  • Lakeside Pottery Ceramic School and Studio – Pottery tips covering pottery wheel techniques, hand building, sculpting, glazing and firing
  • Drying Tips and Basic Tools from Patricia Bridges
  • Pottery Tips and Techniques – Eliabeth Priddy

Chemistry, Glazing and Materials

  • DigitalFire – Database, Materials, Recipes, Articles, Glossary
  • Ceramic Arts Daily: Glaze Chemistry – Articles about Glaze Chemistry
  • Duncan Shearer Glazes – A Glaze Course
  • Ian Currie, glazes.org – Glaze Research & Other Passions of an Australian Potter
  • Stoneware Glazes – Free online book by Ian Currie
  • Glaze Stability – from John Hesselberth of Frog Pond Pottery
  • Getting Started with Crystaline Glazes – Jesse Hull
  • Terra Sigillata – Vince Pitelka
  • John Post – Cone 6 Glaze Explorations
  • Free Glaze Calculator – glazecalculator.com
  • Online Ceramics Glaze Calculator – Glaze Calculator plus other tools
  • InterGlaze – an interactive glaze analysis program on the web
  • Glaze Recipe Sharing – A place for potters to share!
  • Matt and Dave’s Clays: Science Page – Reasearch we have done in ceramic science.
  • 6 Stencil Tips from Patricia Bridges
  • Clay and Glaze Materials Resource Handbook – compiled by Brian Harper at Indiana University Southeast
  • Glaze Thermal Expansion – John Sankey
  • Additives for Ceramic Use – Linda Arbuckle
  • Ceramic Materials Guide – Linda Arbuckle
  • Glaze Book – A collection of glaze recipes and combinations.
  • Clay – A brief overview by Jeni Hansen
  • Print and Clay Techniques
  • Clay and Glaze Database – Personal research project by Ben Fiess
  • GlazeMixer – GlazeMixer can mix your ceramic glaze recipes!

Kilns and Firing

  • Info from L&L Kilns – downloadable PDF files.
  • Skutt Support, Articles – downloadable PDF files.
  • Robert Compton – Firing Methods & Results they produce
  • Notes on Firing Cycles – Nan Rothwell
  • Firing In Oxidation – Val Cushing

Articles

  • Steven Hill – including pulling handles, spraying glazes and once firing.
  • Pottery Myths – Article by Jeff Zamek
  • Handouts by Linda Arbuckle

Other Information

  • The Potters Friend – Technical information on pottery making
  • Bill van Gilder Pottery Videos– Free Online Pottery Videos
  • Technical Tips from Dave – Equipment Repair Tech, David Sturm provides a new tip each month ranging from kilns and firing to wheel maintenance to used equipment in general and everything in between!

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