BRUSHING OFF THE BISQUE(WARE)

Despite the fact that I have pots on hand at most times it always seems that what people want usually has to be made and in this case it was mugs. It was easy enough to agree on for the order of eight mugs with a particular form, medieval style pulled roundish handles and the medieval green and temmoku glazes to finish them off, the not easy part was just needing to sit down and make a group of ten to get the eight. As luck would have it, once fired I ended up with exactly eight mugs that were good to go and then there was these two, new additions to the kitchen as they both ended up with small crawl spots within the footrings. When I am getting ready to fire a bisque kiln, I normally sand the feet smooth and then once out of the bisque I take a toothbrush and clean out the footring and in this case I left a small amount of clay dust which lead to the crawling. Though rather minor there was just no way I could send these out and since one can never have enough mugs in the house to use, no fair no foul. Despite the small issues with both, I was rather pleased at how the surfaces came out on all of the mugs and think the surface goes well with both form and handles. That being said, I will be a bit more careful next time I am brushing off the bisque.