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Parnell:
I'm giving pottery making a run for the first time.  I've dug some really sandy clayish material from back behind the neighborhood.  I'll have to get a photo of the pit I made after work and the colors.  Goes from bright orange sandy dirt to a blue gray clayish material.  I made a slurry and filtered it last weekend and have been letting it settle all week slowly pouring off the top water layer and it is starting to look like something that might be useable.  I was speaking to someone with experience at the knap-in and they said that despite the fact of my living at the beach, there is still high quality material to be found. 

We'll see what I can come up with.  I'm looking forward to the firing step the most. 

Here are some pictures to start, more to come this weekend.

Stephen

Pappy:
You sure that wasn't a sewer line you hit  ;) :) Just kidding, love to try that some day. :)
  Pappy

Parnell:
Ha!  You're not kiddin' Pap! ;D

iowabow:
Good luck this will be a fun thread.

Parnell:
Got some dry pancakes.  Gonna try to filter and clean it even more.

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