Show at Louisville Stoneware
Our first workshop with Mel Jacobson was when we learned the value of custom made wood tools to personalize our work. These specially carved tools are used on wet clay to make impressions and markings that are unique to each piece.
All work is generally bisque fired to cone 08 in preparation for glazing. Glaze is dipped, sprayed, overlayered, brushed, resisted and applied according to each specific piece. We do reduction firings and electric firings to 2345o, cone 10. We also share soda firing with a local ceramic educator, Bill Merrill.
Over the years, Andi and Rudy have created a vast collection of stamps, forms, molds and found articles to stylize our work. Indispensable to the process are:
- Bob Carver wood throwing tools
• wood scalpels, Cynthia Bringle tool
• custom personal design ribs and shapers for teabowls - Mitford-Taylor Pottery Teflon throwing stick
- Bison Tools tungsten carbide trimming/sgraffito tools
• Trimming pear and tear shapes
• Sgraffito custom made points and hawk bill tools
• Carving and sculpting tools - Aardvark, Laguna, and Georgie’s clay companies
- Clayart Center of Tacoma and Seattle Pottery Supply
- Skutt 1227 PK model professional kiln
- Geil Kiln Company, 18 cu ft propane fired brick downdraft kiln
- Copper Ridge Fabrication, Sequim, WA for the custom built hood with class A fire safety standards
- 2 Pacifica potters wheels and a motorized Lockerbie kick wheel for large platters and large dimensional jars
- North Star slab roller/work table
- Scott Creek extruder
- Custom built concrete reinforced wedging table by master craftsman Todd Whitby
- Marketing/sales and photography by Joan Worley and Jess Mckenzie
