We thought we’d take some better photos (ie not with our phone) of our new tile now that it’s grouted, cleaned and sealed.
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Better Photos of Our New Tile
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Carpentry, Ceramics, Concrete, Kitchen, Photography, Pottery, Tile on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
New Tile Installation
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Concrete, Kitchen, Tile on May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We unloaded the accent tiles for this installation out of the kiln with a sigh of relief this morning. It was their second trip though the kiln for glaze firing. The first time was at 06 with less than stellar results and this time at 05 and they’re prefect. We installed these this afternoon and [...]
Testing Clay Bodies and Throwing Lidded Jars
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Kitchen, Pottery, Tile on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re going to see if stoneware clay would make a much better tile clay body than the earthenware we’ve been using. So we made a 15 x 15 inch vineyard tile to test Laguna B-Mix 5 to see if it would pass or fail. We also made some sweet lidded jars including one we did [...]
Huge Step Forward
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Carpentry, Ceramics, Pottery on May 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My dream CNC DIY project just got a whole lot more real. I’ve been dreaming of doing a 3 axis DIY CNC build like many of the ones on instructables.com, but holy crap this will be so much more precise. But that’s all its been is a dream in the back of my head for [...]
New Stamped Trim Tiles
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Kitchen, Tile on February 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
We made some new trim tiles that will be going in our Laundry/Pantry. The dark gray clay is Amaco Versa 20, it fires to a decent white at 04 bisque. These will be glazed in a aqua crackle at 05, the stamped squares should pool some glaze nicely. My progress on building a tile extruder [...]
Tile & Cups
Posted in Bath, Ceramics, Pottery, Tile on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the day working on tile for our guest bathroom and some cups for a custom order. We already started bisque firing the field tile and the first load is ready to glaze. This section of tile goes around the two shampoo cubbies in the shower. It’s our convex “Zoe” tile complete with one [...]
The Art of Self Promotion
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Jewelry, Photography, Pottery, Tile on August 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It’s one of the hardest things for any artist to do…Promote yourself. We’ve never had a problem coming up with ideas for our clients advertising projects but when it’s for us it’s not as easy in fact most of the time it’s frustrating. Angi came up with this to promote our handmade ceramic tile business [...]
New Tile Display Boards
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Kitchen, Photography, Tile on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We just put together a couple new tile display boards.
Our Tile Press Rocks
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Kitchen, Tile on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We made a couple test tiles this afternoon using our hydraulic tile press. Tomorrow we’re going to make 4 tiles from this mold and make molds from each of those tiles. We’re also going to make a corner tile mold. Here’s a close up of the pressed tile. The mold is long enough to make [...]
Hydraulic Tile Press
Posted in Backsplash, Bath, Ceramics, Kitchen, Tile on April 24, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Progress! We were planing to build this design of tile press that we found in the book Handmade Tiles by Frank Giorgini. But this one is cooler and has more power. It’s a 12 ton shop press from Harbor Freight Tools. The Giorgini press would cost at least $80 to build and take a [...]
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