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I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass.

Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

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> Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

I made that realization last year and since then it's just been random project after random project each one requiring me to discover a new tool or method to do some aspect of the project "properly". I'll never be a plumber or electrician professionally but it's so rewarding to start from zero and learn something new that is tangible in the real world. That's the one AI use case I've walked away from feeling like I actually learned something.

I’m fixing up an old Bridgeport-style 5hp mill and converting it to CNC. I got it working enough to make myself a fly cutter out of scrap steel. :)

Best comment on the thread. Fellow potter & sculptor here, is your work online anywhere?

The overlap between ceramicists and technologists is never zero. Part of my initiative to slowly replace every part of my house and home with things I've made... 1% progress is good, right?

I'm so glad i'm not the only one....well I have dreams and visions of a plan but the most i've done is a half baked Patreon and Substack scraper that only kinda works to capture my sunk cost of subscriptions I never used, a movie theater listing app that allows me to find classic movies that may get buried from the mass advertised slop, a custom sewn jacket that contains pockets for homecooked popcorn and locally grown fruit and well a 3-D printed sauce cup holder for all those sauce cups that I get from fast food restaruants.

Im slowly trying to extricate myself by cooking more from home only from local farmers and what I can grow from home (so far only one cucumber). After all, can you really build everything else if your own body molecules are being replaced by low quality things made by others?

I'll get around to 100% at some point before I die or I wont care anymore since i'll be dead: one of those outcomes is inevitable.

I'm ahead of you by a ways but your instincts are not wrong :) we have timber and plans to replace the flooring with logged and milled timber, sourcing clay from the property, making tomato sauce of the gods from home grown roma tomatoes. it's a lovely way to spend a half century I think.

Can you fire ceramic in a house oven? Or do you need something more industrial?

No.

Low fire clay fires at 1060°C+ and high fire clay at 1222°C+.

[Corrected to both be Centigrade]

Which unit is correct?

You can do interesting things with microwave kilns these days, I wonder if they get hot enough for ceramics? They can melt copper, I believe, so they’d be in the ball park.

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