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RESOURCES
Welcome to our resources and tutorials page, tailored to help you work successfully in our community studio.
Do you have a studio practice or protocol question? You're might not be the only one! Post it to our "Member Support" sub-group on Discord for our Facility Committee to answer weekly.
WORKBOOKS
GLAZE 101: Basics for Success
Glaze Defects: What's Wrong?
Pricing Your Work to Sell
Glazing success depends on many different variables in a community studio. Learn to avoid future glaze mishaps, clarify procedure, and develop a signature style!
The first step to troubleshooting is learning what's wrong!
Download this handy guide to learn and decipher a glazing defect.
Start here if you're looking for a formula to begin pricing your work to sell.
Suitable for new to experienced sellers!
CLEANING TUTORIALS
Cleaning Your Wheel
This is the best practice for cleaning your wheel efficiently, saving time and most importantly, saving water!
Remember: Clean everything! Splash pan, wheel head, wheel legs, cord, and ON/OFF button. No clay left behind!
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Step 1: Unclip splash pan. Pour throwing water into throwing bucket. Use your sponge to clean majority of clay from splash pan and wheel head.
Step 2: When all chunks of clay are removed from wheel, dispose chunky clay water into "Throwing Water" bucket.
Step 3: Get water from bucket labeled: "Washing Water." Use this to make a second-pass cleaning your wheel, splash pan, tools and throwing bucket. When complete, throw water back into "Washing Water."
Step 4: With a clean bucket and clean sponge, get fresh water from the tap. Clean everything for a third, final time.
Step 5: Clean the floor with a mop. This includes everywhere under and around your wheel, and any spills made around the sink.
TIP: Use a dry microfiber cloth as a final wipe-down to capture any remaining clay.
Glaze Water Protocol
Water conservation and reuse is imperative in our studio to reduce excessive water collection (since we can't put it down the drain) and allows us to making recycled glaze.
Always think before turning on the tap! Fresh tap water is to be used very sparingly as a final, clean rinse.
If using Commercial Glazes, keep this water separate and dispose dirty water in the "Commercial" Bucket.
Step 1: Pour siphoned clear water into a small container. Use this to clean the bottoms of your pots, tools and brushes.
Step 3: Clean the "magic carpets" in the same two-part method. Pour dirty water over carpets and squeegie water into wash basins.
Step 4: Pour clean water overtop and repeat process until no glaze rings show.
Step 2: Clean tools in two-parts. First using dirty water, then using siphoned water for a final, clean rinse.
Step 5: Dispose of dirty water into it's appropriate "Glaze Waste" buckets. Dirty Commercial Glaze Water is put in a separate bucket, labeled accordingly.