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One heartening thing is that most of the red stuff is coming off with the sandpaper. Not sure I can get it out of the deepest areas. Does look like whatever is was fumed from a point in the center of the piece - can see radial streaks clearly as it is sanded off. I noticed the lid to my kiln wash ja...

Thanks, Barry! I do know about the potential for silver contamination, and I was worried about that when I started planning this piece (which was why I used the cheapo piece of tile for a shelf). But in this case I don't think it was the silver - or if it was, it was something pretty indirect in whi...

During a tack fuse of my piece I was firing on thinfire laid on a kilnwashed ceramic tile (used many times before, but not for some time now). I suspect there was something on the tile because underneath the middle of the piece the thinfire turned gray. There is a difference in the surface of the gl...

I have been playing with leaves as inclusions and have the same problem I have seen in the archives - bubbles around the leaves. The galling thing is that it worked well once and then not when I repeated it - perhaps I should just take my gift from the kiln gods and stop. Based on what I saw in the ...