A really long time ago. My then sister in-law asked me to make her another set of lamps. Here is the first set she asked for. I think it was a year and a half ago or maybe only last June, she saw us at the Farmers Market again, and said that another set would be great for the living room. Larger though. Like two feet large. I explained that the tallest I can make is governed by the available space in my kiln and twenty one inches is the most I can make. These are about nineteen. I hope it's enough.
I think I mentioned in a previous post that I had to make these. I threw them about two months ago and quite honestly it's the first time that I've ever thrown a set using sectional construction. They turned out reasonably close to each other. About half an inch different in height and the profile is quite different between the two but the glaze does make them an obvious set. I hope she likes them.
For the M^6G fetishists out there, this is Waterfall brown over Bright Sky Blue. It's cooled to 1050 C (from ^6) as fast as the kiln will cool (about 45 minutes) and then cooled at 70 C per hour until 800 C. This is more or less the schedule that R & H now use as published on their site. If you hold this combination at 1050 C for an hour or so after the initial cool you get a very beautiful lustourous brownish matte. But I know Sue wanted shinier brown so I didn't do the hold.
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