Some pots for the new gallery

A new woodgrain oval, unglazed.

Cinnabar and cream oval 13 inches long.

A new bunjin/literati pot

Sweet! Particularly the bunjin!

Another new 'BIG RIVET' pot



and a glazed banded oval.

A couple grass pots

A few unglazed pots

A medium-sized cascade


A bunjin unglazed about 14 inches


unglazed combed bunjin.

A soft-cornered rectangle with a fine DRB finish and glaze. This pot is a 2nd so it's waiting for a 'Dale tree'.

Nice work Dale. I really like the big riveted drum.

BTW, is that the pot in the MABS photo the one I (M. Rockwell) bought from you at PBA?

rockm wrote:Nice work Dale. I really like the big riveted drum.

BTW, is that the pot in the MABS photo the one I (M. Rockwell) bought from you at PBA?

Thanks Mark,
If you are talking about the ash green soft-corner rectangle then yes. It was only one left of 4 ( different sizes) I made for a Colorado customer to chose from.

Friends,
I've been putting off making this announcement for a month now but the time has come. I have stopped vending at any bonsai functions. After doing the MidAtlantic Symposium and the Potomac Show this spring I decided to throw in the towel. MANY things led me to this decision, but, for now I'll just say that I can no longer handle the work involved. It is my intention to no longer load and unload a truck at a show or put up with vending.
At some point this fall I will have a large sale to eliminate all present stock at a terrific discount. Stay tuned for that.
I will still be making bonsai pots with some different marketing ideas. I won't be making all the tiny grass pots and shohin pots anymore . There are PLENTY of folks out there making grass pots. I am going to concentrate on making only pots as large as I possibly can anymore, so production numbers will be down due to kiln space. I'll only make enough small pots to fill around them on the shelves. Almost everything should be in the 14" to 20" sizes. Of course, as usual, I will be taking commissioned pot jobs.
I will be concentrating on selling online, POSSIBLY some on eBay. From now on when I post pots online they will ALL be for sale, no hold-backs for shows. All pots will be shown with dimensions and a price. For sites where I cannot show prices, I will show dimensions and I can be contacted.
Also, I am currently searching for a bonsai business vendor who does a lot of shows and would like to be the sole distributor for my pots. Since I won't have the expenses anymore I can work out a good commission deal! The vendor does need to be close enough that I can deliver them without the shipping costs.
I will still be selling power wood carving tools for bonsai via mail order. I still have the best selection of these tools available in the USA.
As a lot of you know I sold the vast majority of my bonsai collection last fall and I'm finding that I don't miss them! I hope this will work out in a similar way. I no longer enjoyed doing shows so I'm hoping I won't miss them.

Well, Anyway, I'LL miss some of YOU that I often see at the shows I do every year and at other conventions and symposiums!

Dale

Dale,
I will miss you at the PBA show. You have been at every show that I ever attended; the PBA show will not be the same without you. I wish you good fortune and the best of luck in your business. Thank you for all of your advice and comments thru out the past decades. I shop ebay often, when funds permit, and look forward to seeing your listings. I love the pots that I bought from you.
Sincerely,
Todd

Dale, I think people may have missed your announcement here since it was tacked on to your LONG thread about your pots. You may want to "announce" your semi-retirement in the Announcements forum.

I thought I'd show this high quality photo of a beautifully designed procumbens juniper done by Mike Pollock that he potted into a larger scoop pot that he got from me at MidAtlantic this April.

My smallest, and last, Texas Ebony in a 'Dale pot'....

8 feet of drying pots.....
On my basement indoor tropical light racks that I use in winter.

Trimming a pot on a 20 inch bat.

A tray of scraps left  from an oval pot build,
becomes a 'Land & Water' grass pot.

I took this shot yesterday mid-day in the heat and sun of the bats in one of  my bonsai garden bathouses while they were down near the opening cooling off.

What a great picture! I love bats!  
We have bats which like to live behind the stars on our house.

[quote="Todd Ellis"]What a great picture! I love bats!  
We have bats which like to live behind the stars on our house.
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Those are probably good spots. In the sun, tight quarters,  and where squirrels can't get to them.

A few Kusamono/shohin pots out of the kiln yesterday.
1. A slab-built rivet rectangle.
2. A brown and green round.
3. A hand-carved from a solid block of clay sorta-rectangle:) 
4. A slab-built land & water area rectangle ( shown above before firing)

nicely done, dale.

is this one available?
3. A hand-carved from a solid block of clay sorta-rectangle:)