Then bend the wire over the heat to get the right shaped head on the tool.

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Brass or copper wire, or electrician tape can be wrapped around the end to hold
this wire in place. File the edge te clean up the roughness from the forging process.

Tall porcelain pieces were trimmed right side up. The thickness can be checked
by pushing a needle trough the wall. The glaze will fill the hole later. After
trimming or carving you can use a damp sponge to soften edges. "We use craft to
produce ART." When we trim we are using craft to finish the art piece — anything
you have to do to come up with your art is O.K.

For large bowls he has a bat with a hole in the center so that when you are holding
the plate to be trimmed in your left hand you can hold the bat by the center and
lower it carefully on the rim of the bow] and turn both gently together. Harlan
puts a hanging lug just above the foot so that it can be hung on the wall. The
piece is therefore more versatile, therefore more saleable.

Harlan spent time discussing pricing,photographing your work, stressing good quality
slides, as being your best way to get grants and to get into shows. He said packing
his work sometimes takes as much time as the making and he uses foam rubber and
sponges for the job.

In Harlan's notes in the library you will find a complete write-up of his clay
bodies, plaster mix, homemade blunger etc., but following are a few of his recipes.
Kiln wash is 1/3 kaolin, 1/3 silica and 1/3 alumina hydrate mixed with water to a
gummy solution to paint on.

Harlan's clay body is: Grollog kaolin 46.69 %
G 200 Spar 28.83 %
Pennsylvania glass
sand 400 mesh 22.00 %
Ferro bentonite 3.25 %

Casting formula is: Grollog 50 1bs
Feldspar |
Flint eo
Water 39-490 ="

Sodium Silicate 112 gms or 175 gms Darvan # 7

He always uses vinegar as his acid

Blue Ruth glaze — Cone 9 to 17 (a blue celadon at cone 11)

Kaolin 9 Ibs
Spar fa
Silica ao
Whiting 5

One tube of (true) cobalt blue water colour.
Sometimes adds ash from the wood kiln instead of whiting.

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