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JBaymore (Offline)
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: New Hampshire, USA
06-15-2011, 08:25 PM

masaegu,

Thanks for the kind words.

Unfortunately the glaciers back in the ice age scraped all of the high fire primary and secondary clays down to the NY and NJ area . So mainly we have low firing earthenware clays left here in NH. So my clay body is composed of commercial materials from elsewhere in the US. However I put local granite dust (NH is the Granite State) and rocks and also sand from my property into that body to give the clay better tsuchiaji. Sometimes I add some local clay too.....but not too much as the iron and other fluxes would lower the firing range a lot.

I fire a five chamber wood fueled noborigama here at my studio.

best,

.................john
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