Beans, bean, the magical fruit! Here are two forms @ cone 04 that had a bag of Trader Joe's bean blend wedged in the clay body. Lots of bean ashes but cool texture. The beans opened up the clay a lot and left the bisque very lightweight. Doing a cone 5 glaze test to see how that seals up the surface.
I wanted to make my own extruder dies and thought masonite would be strong enough. Humph. I was very wrong. The forms were hard enough to cut out with the slow scroll saw, so I didn't want to redo them. Reinforcing the openings with scrap wood worked for about one batch, but it is obvious that the die on the right didn't stand a chance to 80 lbs of pressure. Bummer. I don't know if I can stand the heat in the wood shop to remake these. It is a sauna in there. :(
Here I am cleaning bean ashes out of the bisque forms. This is my "work room" in my studio. I also have a "clean room," which functions as a critique area & office. My iPhone camera is really foggy; I think my phone is slowly self-destructing so I have to break down and get the iPhone 4.
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