mel jacobson on mon 1 apr 02
check with your local re/cycle system.
there are wonderful books full of things, that are given
away free.
you can go some places, and fill a pickup truck with buckets.
and, they will load them.
there are lists of wood products, metal, glass, computer
parts, plastics, foam til your house is full.
each major city has one of these.
locate it..use it.
a mountain of stuff given free.
mel
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
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Dupre Mr Marcy M on mon 1 apr 02
I think sometimes that the concept of recycling was invented by potters. My
wife says I am a pack-rat. I tell her I am a collector, and a concerned
recycler, making the most of things.
"One man's trash is another's treasure."
One of several things I do is approach the snack bars at the military base
wheere I work my day job. They usually go through a five-gallon bucket of
pickles each week. They also have two-gallon tubs of salads, one-gallon
jars of hot peppers, and one-quart plastic containers of cottage cheese.
For the price of a couple of coffee mugs, with their names on them, I get it
all. Plus, the cardboard tubes from plastic baggies, the tubes from paper
towels, and the thick cardboard spacers from dry goods boxes.
I also collect all the cardboard backings from the annual calendar issues.
When the old calendar is about to be thrown away, I send out an email,
asking folks to save them. I go around and pick 'em up. Meet a lot of new
people, talk about pots, and get more materials.
Can't think of a downside to all this, yet.
Tig Dupre
Play Dirty!
Clay Coordinator on tue 2 apr 02
Hey,
If anyone wants free plastic buckets, check with your local Walmart. Go to
the bakery department and ask them. Here in Spruce Pine they have 10 or so
a day they throw out. So instead they give them away.
You will have to lick out the jelly filling and donut glaze though.
Later,
John
Chris Schafale on wed 10 nov 04
My all-time favorite bucket is the one whose label (really!) reads "Magic
Glaze" -- a pre-made donut glaze, I guess. Got it from a supermarket bakery.
Chris
At 10:29 PM 11/09/2004, you wrote:
>Listen to this, folks.
>Some of you already think I have too much time on my hands,
>but my glaze buckets are color coordinated.
>I would use an orange Home Depot bucket only for "Mel's Orange"
>glaze or an orange Shino.
>
>My black-brown tenmoku is in a black bucket, my green glazes
>are in green buckets, and I have three shades of blue buckets,
>from light to dark, for my many blue glazes.
>I even have a burgundy, not red, bucket for my copper red glaze.
>
>Of course, I have never paid a nickel for a glaze bucket, and
>I have dozens of extra lids. After 35 years of collecting, I don't
>know where or when I got 'em, but I'll never run out.
>
>David Hendley
>Working hard to make sure there is no mug left behind
>david@farmpots.com
>http://www.farmpots.com
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
> > Well congratulations on your new buckets, but geez, didn't they have any
> > color but orange? Tell me they're not that neon orange. Here I was
> > picturing your studio with all kinds of pots sitting around, potter's pots
> > in iron reds, temmokus, etc, and now no matter what your're looking at,
> > you're going to see those orange buckets out of the corner of your eye.
>The
> > ambience is ruined. You could "Zolotone" them, I guess....
>
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Jenny Lewis on thu 11 nov 04
Hi Jennifer
It's true! Well, I'm not exactly famous, but oo, the thrill of discovering
cardboard boxes etc. At my old day job, I once came across about a dozen boxes
that were being thrown out, all containing 5 or 6 sheets of bubble wrap! I
grabbed them, and got them all back to my office - several trips, but worth it.
My friends and colleagues asked why I was keeping rubbish under my desk, but
I told them it was treasure, and got a few strange looks. But they already
thought I was a bit strange anyway - crazy potter, weird ideas - so they just
shrugged.
Jenny
in Eastleigh, UK
> Jennifer , chuckling at how potters can go on about "BUCKETS".
> I heard that Paul Soldner once said "it doesn't matter how famous a
> potter gets: His/her heart still beats faster upon discovering a good
> collection of cardboard boxes in a dumpster."
Linda Stauffer on mon 26 oct 09
I've found a great source for buckets. Our local Y gets it's pool
chemicals in large deep buckets with screw on lids. They are great fro
dipping tall pieces and the screw on lids are excellent. If there is a
college pool, or a Y near you check it out.
Linda Stauffer
On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:49 PM, David Hendley wrote:
Big batches:
I think it is a mistake for an individual studio potter, even a pro
who sells a lot, to make glaze batches larger than a pickle-bucket-
full at a time.
BTW, it is commonly stated that 10,000 grams is a good amount
to mix to fill a 5-gallon bucket. I find this too little. Depending
on the glaze, I mix 12,000 to 15,000 grams at a time, and the slop
still fits comfortably in a standard issue 5 gallon bucket, with room
for dipping.
BTW #2, "Jason's Deli", a common restaurant chain in these parts,
uses lots and lots of 5 gallon buckets, and they are very happy to
give away the empties. It is not unusual to be able to scarf up 10
or 20 at a time.
Back when I was doing some wholesaling, I decided to mix up
30-gallon trash cans-full of glaze of my most-used glazes. I really
regretted it. The time saved in weighing and mixing was lost in the
extra effort needed to sieve the mixture (you can't pick up 30
gallons of glaze and pour it into another container) and the time
spent keeping the mix well stirred. I also found that the big batches
needed to be re-sieved before they were used up because lumpy
bits of dried glaze would develop. Big batches like this also
discourage experimentation and growth.
Glazing large platters:
The best way to glaze a large platter with a small amount of glaze
is to build your own container. If you have some scrap plywood
around the cost is next-to-nothing. Thin 3/8" plywood is fine.
Start with 2 pieces of plywood a little wider than the platters you
need to glaze, say 20". Make them about 4" taller than wide,
or 24". These will be the sides of your container.
The other 2 sides will be 1 X 4 boards, 23 1/4" long (24" minus
the thickness of the bottom board), and the bottom will be a
1 X 4 board 20" long. Glue and screw the 3 1 X 4s into a U-
shape. Caulk the joints and paint them with any left-over paint.
Paint the 2 pieces of plywood and then attach them to the 1 X 4s.
Run beads of caulk along the edge of the 1 X 4s, then place the
plywood and screw into place.
So, if you are visually following along, you realize that your
platter will be glazed sideways. Simply fill your container, grab the
platter by the rim, and dip it in. The extra height is to accommodate
the rising glaze level as the platter is immersed. After a try or
two, you will know how full the container needs to be to glaze
a platter in only one dip, with no annoying overlaps.
David Hendley
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
Snail Scott on tue 27 oct 09
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:49 PM, David Hendley wrote:
> BTW, it is commonly stated that 10,000 grams is a good amount
> to mix to fill a 5-gallon bucket. I find this too little. Depending
> on the glaze, I mix 12,000 to 15,000 grams at a time, and the slop
> still fits comfortably in a standard issue 5 gallon bucket, with room
> for dipping.
What the glaze is made of matters, too.
Glazes with a lot of frit seem to occupy
less volume and 15,000 grams fit well,
while glazes with a lot of gerstley borate
sort of 'puff up' so a five-gallon bucket may
only handle 5000-8000 grams.
-Snail
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