Fundy mud slurry, being sieved before setting in the sun to dryStarting to dry fundy mud, usually in Julyhighland 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 goestreadle wheel buildpower mud mixer rigplate former experimentKeswick mud right off the canoe floorTim lights me upsmall kiln fixOscar Paul wheelelectronic kiln controller buildgas kilnHighland shale being sifted and crushed down for usefirst gathering spot, head of Fundy tree trunk banding wheelalmost ready to pack awaysun 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 for the environment. I’ll add kyanite grog when I pug this into jam buckets for storage. About 500 lbs here, more than I’ll use this season. Some will be given away.
wedged raw pre tea bowls for the marketthink I still have this one…field trial test of wet process additions without the pugmill for an xtra low tech mentoring proposal clay with amendments out to drysucessful test, clay ready to pack awayCone 10 FrankenKiln electricFrankenKiln under constructionthermocouple hole tool3 contactor controlRalph bisque 2stamp millstamp mill blue graniteAtlantic Silicaash glaze SX PorcelainSX Redart, SX frit sealed, meltedSX Shaw Fireclayash glaze SX Porcelainash SX Porcelainchopped banding wheelShimpo RK2controllervery old dead 220v pug mill hammer and chiseled apartrenewed pug, lab oven, bakers cabinet
Most all my pottery equipment has gone to a better place through 2025. I’m lately posing as a post-ceramic ascetic, appearing unannounced to play Shakuhachi at the tense moment when horse hair goes on the pot at raku events… retreating silently to make coffee and do dishes. I still have a great interest in primitive practices and processing rock and porcelain experimental bodies, so I’m thinking to build a small cone 10 gas kiln in 2026. I would like to make a good tea bowl. In the meantime, I look at dry grass blowing over the snow a lot.
Fundy Mud Pottery 