Magdalene’s Bootcamp Experience

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Magdalene Bolton wrote:I got started on this dish and a broke it :(

That doesn't look to me like it's been fired yet. (But maybe your clay is different than what I've worked with.) If it hasn't, I expect you could score the surfaces (We used old toothbrushes.) and reattach the handles with a little slip. (Clay thinned with extra water, assuming the piece was wet with water, not oil.)

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T Melville wrote:



That doesn't look to me like it's been fired yet. (But maybe your clay is different than what I've worked with.) If it hasn't, I expect you could score the surfaces (We used old toothbrushes.) and reattach the handles with a little slip. (Clay thinned with extra water, assuming the piece was wet with water, not oil.)

It wasn’t fired, I let it get bone dry and tried to add more to it so it kept cracking over and over. I fixed it like 5 times before it split down the middle and I gave up 🙃

Magdalene Bolton wrote:t wasn’t fired, I let it get bone dry and tried to add more to it so it kept cracking over and over. I fixed it like 5 times before it split down the middle and I gave up 🙃

If it was that dry, you'd have to re-slake it. It's probably easier to roll a new slab and recycle the old piece. Might be tempting though to re-slake the handles and use them. Or fire 'em and use 'em as templates.

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