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Fundy mud slurry, being sieved before setting in the sun to dry
Starting to dry fundy mud, usually in July
highland shale mining tools, container goes in my back pack
mining shale, a fossil paleosol from the nearby highlands
shale testing… shale is ‘short’ as in not plastic. Can be formed wet with hammer rocks
the big cheap slab roller, of disused train shop parts
Fundy mud processing into pugs for storage. Takes a lot of milk and cookies
where it goes
treadle wheel build
power mud mixer rig
plate former experiment
Keswick mud right off the canoe floor
Tim lights me up
small kiln fix
Oscar Paul wheel
electronic kiln controller build
gas kiln
Highland shale being sifted and crushed down for use
first gathering spot, head of Fundy
tree trunk banding wheel
almost ready to pack away
sun drying

2022 amendment cookies arranged over raw Fundy Mud pugs before the final mix. Here adding 2 extra dug clays, one from the NS end of the Bay, the other is Keswick Mud, plus another potters cone 05 and cone 6 recycle scrap. I’ll add kyanite grog when I pug this into plastic jam buckets for storage. About 500 lbs here.