While looking for a glaze cost savings and going though our glaze raw materials I realized I had a few opportunity areas. I try to review the raw material pricing every six months to keep the prices of my pots at a level for the local area while also maintaining quality. I was taught to […]
Carbon coring or “black coring” can be an issue when firing clay bodies. While doing some experiments with reduction firings I had many pots that were cracking in the process and had no idea why. It seemed that the cracks were from fast cooling, as they were clean breaks through the glaze with sharp edges. […]
Firing out the Amaco AG40 is great for raku , but I sure had issues with the higher temperatures. When I was working towards my degree and also was an apprentice at a pottery when I found a little Amaco AG40 updraft kiln in the classified section of the paper. The kiln was owned by older […]
Progress Over Perfection Back in August 2015, while pulling my kiln and wheel out of storage, I happen to find to see a YouTube video on the topic of learning a particular skill with deliberate practice. In the video “Learn To Kickflip in 5 hours And 47 Minuets.‘ The user Mike Boyd filmed his practice […]
While researching the start up the Creek Road Pottery, I quickly came to realize that running a business would be much more than making pots. Months before I even thought about creating a pottery I went through the Business Model Canvas course given by Steve Blank on the Udacity website. The class was very helpful […]
Welcome to Creek Road Pottery! We are happy that everyone has stopped by for a visit and we have been working on the website to get it ready for for future content. We would like to thank everyone who took part in the pilot order program. It was a big help as we find […]