{"id":2943,"date":"2017-06-03T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2017-06-03T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T10:17:57","slug":"beaver-panels-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/beaver-panels-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver panels done"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I took the two sculptures out of the kiln a little while ago, they look good. The beaver started out 22″ x 13-1\/2″ and when the clay was bone dry he measured 20-7\/8″ x 12-3\/4″ and then after firing the final measurements are 19-1\/2″ x 12-1\/4″, so the shrinkage through the processes amounts to about 11% for this clay.
\nHe weighs 28#
\nThe white clay I won’t be using, I got some of that thinking it could be glazed, but having white clay and red clay in the same molds will cause cross-contamination with white bits getting on the red and vice-versa and that could be a lot of trouble trying to control. As it is, a slight bit of the residue of the white clay wound up in the beavers’ beard.
\nI have another red one that can be fired next weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 2nd 22D is pressed with red clay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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I took the two sculptures out of the kiln a little while ago, they look good. The beaver started out 22″ x 13-1\/2″ and when the clay was bone dry he measured 20-7\/8″ x 12-3\/4″ and then after firing the final measurements are 19-1\/2″ x 12-1\/4″, so the shrinkage through the processes amounts to about 11% for this clay. He weighs 28# The white clay I won’t be using, I got some of that thinking it could be glazed, but having white clay and red clay in the same molds will cause cross-contamination with white bits getting on the red and vice-versa and that could be a lot of trouble trying to control. As it is, a slight bit of the residue of the white clay wound up in the beavers’ beard. I have another red one that can be fired next weekend. The 2nd 22D is pressed with red clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}