{"id":1332,"date":"2023-12-06T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:53:00","slug":"slip-casting-stoneware-test-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Slip casting stoneware test pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"
Again, taking up space moaning about the fact that my horn is not dry. My horn’s not dry! <\/span><\/div>\n

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So, because I want to slip cast it and glaze my casts, I agreed with James to slip cast some test pieces in the same clay I will use for my final piece, stoneware slip.<\/span><\/div>\n

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We mixed the slip and then poured it into our mounds, filling them to the brim.
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I left them to sit, topping up occasionally, for about 10 minutes, until there was a visible cast border; this border happens at the contact point between the two where the water is sucked out of the clay by the plaster.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I then tipped the remaining liquid slip back into the mixing bucket. I was careful to pour the slip out with the mould level horizontally so the slip dripped out evenly on both sides.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I then turned them upside down and left them to rest\/ air on sticks. <\/span><\/div>\n

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After a while I trimmed the tops using a plastic blade. This apparently helps the cast cone away from the moulds evenly.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I decided to pop them in the plastic oven a low temperature to speed up the drying time.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I came back the next day, bounced them out of their moulds and then cleaned up their edges using a damp carpet tile and sponge. <\/span><\/div>\n

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They’ve been left on the firing rack with my other test pieces.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I will glaze them next week when they’ve been bisque fired.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Again, taking up space moaning about the fact that my horn is not dry. My horn’s not dry!  So, because I want to slip cast it and glaze my casts, I agreed with James to slip cast some test pieces in the same clay I will use for my final piece, stoneware slip. We mixed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}