Four New Pots

Here are the pots that I finished up this last week. The class is almost finished, and I am rushing to get everything fired, before finals.


This is a hand built coil pot. I'm still experimenting with the added beads, but this is what it looks like right now.


This is the first pot I've made from slabs of clay.


Here is another made just like the one above, I just tipped it over.


This pot was made by rolling the slab from the inside, with dowels. You end up with a cylinder with no seams.

Newest Smoked Pots

Here are the pots, that I smoked last night.


This pot is inspired by the Tlingit legend of "Raven Stole the Sun."


This one is my idea of Pooh's honey jar.

Wrangell Garnets, Polished and Natural

After a little over a month of grinding and polishing in the vibrating tumbler the Garnets are finished and here is the results pictured against the host stone for comparison. The key to keeping them from becoming garnet dust was using plastic pellets. They still have imperfections due to the crazing inherent in the crystals from the local mine but came out with a fairly good polish. I plan on another trip to the mine sometime this spring to get some more specimens and maybe start another load in the tumbler. The garnets from our local mine are represented in the Smithsonian.

Hot out of the Kiln

I made this bowl with small coils of clay. Very time consuming and tedious, but well worth the effort.

My New Kiln

Here is my new kiln. Now I am able to fire larger pots than I could in the old bucket. It is made from an old compressor tank. I really like the way it came with it's own legs.



Here are a couple of pots that I fired in the new kiln.