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Post by spikeict on Nov 14, 2006 22:35:07 GMT -5
The other night in the chat room I said something about having some Salt dips fired, I was asked what those were: Prior to shakers salt dips/open salts/salt cellars sat on the table and very small spoons were used to dip it out then onto the food. I took mine out of the kiln yesterday and thought I would show them off. Now keep in mind these are kind of wild and "new ones" are kind of unheard of but for a collector like I have been for many years I like them. For a better example search for any of the above on ebay. The colors are better in person:   |
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Post by joe on Nov 14, 2006 23:05:35 GMT -5
Those are really nice!
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Post by akansan on Nov 14, 2006 23:57:56 GMT -5
Okay, what's the difference between a dip and a cellar? The ones I've seen appear to have a hole in the side and are covered. Is that a cellar?
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Post by 181lizard on Nov 15, 2006 0:18:36 GMT -5
I use kosher or other fine salts when I'm cooking and on the dinner table. I had no idea there were "special" things to hold the salt in. One day I saw something called a "salt pig". Looked like one of those big bent pipes you see on ships that you could almost crawl into. So...is that basically what these are for? Table & kitchenware?
They are beautiful! Nice glazing on them. You make them? and do they have lids?
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Post by spikeict on Nov 15, 2006 10:05:44 GMT -5
The names are interchangeable (except for the salt pig, always a opening on the side but not always in the form of a pig) The large ones are Master salts which normally are 2 plus inches across which sat in the middle of the table to refill the smaller dips / open salts which sat at individual place settings. I don't use them very often but sometimes. They are4 fun to collect as they come in all kinds of material and shapes. I threw these on my mothers potters wheel, and fired them in her kiln. The colors were in the glaze, in the form of crystals that melt and you never know what you are going to end up with until they are done. I had a lot of fun doing them and might do more next spring.
Glad you liked them!
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Post by blarneystone on Nov 15, 2006 10:37:45 GMT -5
Hey Spike~
Those are pretty neat! I see that you threw 'em on a wheel. My Grandmother was a potter and had a natural gas kiln in her back yard, my great uncle and I built it for her. I can really appreciate the skill it takes to throw pots on a wheel. ....I could never get the hang of it.
Nice job on those salt dips bud.
Dan
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Post by sandsman1 on Nov 15, 2006 13:43:20 GMT -5
very nice job spike those are realy cool man i like um
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Post by takilasunrise on Nov 16, 2006 10:40:27 GMT -5
I love them, too! I have always loved pottery. I have dabbled in it a little bit (not on a wheel, though). It is cool to see what comes out of the kiln, how the glaze fired, etc. My mom's best friend has done it for years. She also did Raku. That was always fun to go watch her and her husband do.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 16, 2006 12:23:59 GMT -5
that looks fun. what else do you make?
takila what is raku?
kim
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Post by takilasunrise on Nov 16, 2006 16:25:49 GMT -5
(I don't know if this is the official procedure, but this is what my mom's friend used to do). After a piece of pottery has been fired (usually twice, once to get it to the bisque stage, and then to fire the glaze), the piece gets placed back in a kiln (they had a different one for this stage) and get the piece to a red hot stage. Her husband than lifts the piece out (he basically wears welder's protective gear minus the face mask) and places the piece into a steel drum that is full of combustible materials (saw dust, newspaper, etc.). As soon as the piece hits the saw dust, it bursts into flames. He then places the drum lid on the drum, and it does some kind of vacuum / internal combustion thing. This process causes cracks to go through out the glaze and then the black soot is sucked into the cracks, giving it an old aged appearance. It also alters come of the colors of the glazes, such as the greens turn into a shiny copper color. If you type in raku in Yahoo and click on images, you will pull up lots of examples! It is very beautiful, but rather costly. My mom's friend said there was always a percentage of breakage during the raku process.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 16, 2006 16:58:23 GMT -5
 ok definitely don't want my hubby to know about this lol. kim
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 16, 2006 17:52:08 GMT -5
interesting, cut glass salt cellars were the first thing i collected as a kid. still have some of the nicer ones. i like the thrown ceramic ones, spike. i enjoyed pottery when i was younger, always thought i might try and do that as a hobby, but the rocks got me first.
KD
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Post by spikeict on Nov 17, 2006 19:26:38 GMT -5
I have some great dips, Lot and his wife figures standing behind the bowl, sterling, cut glass, vaseline glass, all kinds of stuff. As for what else I make, this was the first time I had touched moms potters wheel in over 30 years, I was terrible at it. If my mother makes some more bowls (after I made those she sat down a couple of days later and did some bowls) I might do some more stuff so we could fill the kiln.
A few days after I first threw the dips and had gone home mom got the bug. They live in a condo and the wheel is in the garage, at the time roofers were working on the condos and after she had finished the first piece she looked up to find eight guys standing outside the garage watching. Now dad says she won't do anything without a audience any more.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 17, 2006 20:20:30 GMT -5
what kind of wheel and what kind of kiln? sounds cool.....sounds like mom likes hunky men watching....LOL!!
KD
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Post by spikeict on Nov 17, 2006 20:49:37 GMT -5
Thank god the wheel is electric, not sure I have the stamina for a human powered anymore. It is old though, old enough that she can not get a drip tray for it anymore the one on it is yellow with grey "lighting strikes" from where cracks in the plastic were mended with epoxy. The kiln is also electric, and yes I remember the process takilasunrise, we went to extremes to keep the glaze from cracking, she fired them on Wednesday and I opened it Sunday.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 17, 2006 21:10:38 GMT -5
kick wheel is what i liked, i could never get the hang of "spinning tiger" electric wheels. all what you learn on, i think. the tiny kiln i had you had to have little cones to gage temperature. bet Doc has expertise on this...?
KD
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Post by spikeict on Nov 17, 2006 22:03:02 GMT -5
Yes, I think all kilns still use the the cone. a lesson in life there some where, when things start to melt down ease up on the temp. I would be terrible on the kick wheel, I get too involved with what is going on with the piece, don't laugh but actually forgot to breathe a few times while forming. It was funny, when mom came out to check on things and saw what I had done she started looking around, I asked what she was doing she said she was looking for the guy that made these. Ultimate complimant.
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Post by takilasunrise on Nov 28, 2006 9:20:56 GMT -5
Earthdog is interested in learning how to do pottery on a wheel. Our local museum gives classes on it, so I might sign us up and take the class together. But I can see it now.........we will have to buy a wheel and a kiln. I have no idea where we'd put it, being that a quarter of the basement is all his rock stuff and I have a quarter of the basement for my craft area....the rest of the basement is storage and laundry room. No garage!
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ok definitely don't want my hubby to know about this lol.
