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Please let me show some of my pots from time to time.
Here is the first one:
China ware - accent pot

Best regards Horst

Excellent shape and glaze on this one. Lovely to see you posting here again Horst.

Very nice Horst, I dont think I have one of your pots yet ( I'm sure of it)

Its porcelan yes????


Kind regards
Peter

.....elegant and visually stunning...

Horst, you really set the standard!!

Great to see you back,

Pat

Wonderful glaze Horst, it must be time to place another order soon....





Will

Horst

Good to see you back here

Love your pot

All the best

Andy

Dear Horst

Wonderful !!
Thank You for showing.
Kind regards
Morea

Great glaze and form on this pot. Reminds me of snow on a rugged mountain range. Thanks for sharing

Thank you all for your welcome and warm replies.

Todays outcome showing more colour:









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I love 'em!

Those last pots are beauties Horst!
Dale

Great stuff!

I too am thrilled to see you back here. The IBC was just not the same when you left

To go on with three accent pots.
Best regards Horst

Wow, that last one is awesome!

I would love to know what kind of resist (wax, latex) you use to produce those glazed cracks.

You work is truly inspirational.

Thanks for sharing-

Horst-
I really like the second pot. It has real integrity. I can imagine thyme rolling out of the overhanging lip. That blue glaze is not something one might use with tableware, but it's perfect for Bonsai. The matt surface and pocked texture definitely add interest.
-Preston

Rob Addonizio wrote:Wow, that last one is awesome!

I would love to know what kind of resist (wax, latex) you use to produce those glazed cracks.

You work is truly inspirational.

Thanks for sharing-

Right, I use wax to avoid a glaze mix and keep that blue, Rob.
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The rough line:

Horst, great pots and glazes. It is always an inspiration to see your work.

Roger

Fantastic Horst!!
Not only are the finishes fantastic but I'm also always impressed with your flat and warp-less ( is that a word?) styles.
Really nice!!

Dale

Thanks again all for your friendly comments!

Dale: This one is a bit out of the line

It shows an ash glaze finish. I took wooden ash ( mainly beech), mixed it up with CMC (synthetic adhesive) and aplied it directly. No other components were added. The outcome is a semi matt transparent glaze, which shows a soft green-brown. It runs badly (1250°C).
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Horst,

I like that drippy look; afterall it is ash, and that is normal, no?

How could you make it more stable? Lower fire temp? Add something with alumina?

How did you prepare your ash?

I like that ash glaze Horst.
I mix up a lot of different ash glazes.
I scoop my ashes out of our fireplace so it's usually mixes of all kinds of wood ,including the newspapers, trash and coke cans my wife keps throwing in!
I'm never suprised what I find in it as I'm washing/etc. during it's prep.
I wonder if the Japanese get Coke cans in their ash??

Dale

Horst, I do like the twist in the rim of your piece. It's perfectly on center with the foot notch. And the ash and clay body made a nice pink blush at the rim of the piece. Bravo!
I use several kinds of ash. I save all of my apple wood prunings and burn them for a great ^10 nuka glaze. (1 part ash, 1 part silica, 1 part custer/potash spar) I don't wash the ash. I find that elm ash runs and pools with the best color in the wood kiln. Oak ash is a little too refractory, and pine and juniper ash just runs off the pot with drab color. I haven't used beech, but I will now.

-PT

Rob Addonizio wrote:Horst,

I like that drippy look; afterall it is ash, and that is normal, no?

How could you make it more stable? Lower fire temp? Add something with alumina?

How did you prepare your ash?

Rob,
no preparation at all. You are right, there is an extreme lack of silica and alumina. That's why there is no body to the glaze and the color is somehow poor. Anyway, I like that reduced glaze.
A more "sophistcated" mix would be 60 ash: 40 feldspar. It also is a good idea to include some clay, that helps to
create a variegated surface, means matt and glossy places, e.g. 60 ash: 40 feldspar: 10 china clay.

To legitimate this posting - some mini-pots:

Best regards Horst

Those are some real beauties Horst

Thanks for sharing!