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Clay Flambé

@cleanmuddauber.bsky.social

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Minter of NFPs (non-fungible pots) . Wood-fired ceramics, mostly . Mushie pics, in season . Disobeying in advance . Here to heckle coup plotters and collaborators

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 5h

A local tour
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Fiddlers Reach fog bell, sans fog; eagle condo for rent on Goat Island; flippered Kennebec water dog on the rocks; Squirrel Point, Arrowsic's red light district

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 5h

Wow!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 3d

Burned some slash
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Opposed to slash and burn
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 5d

Just an excuse for a long walk in old woods. Olive oysterling is ... okay, culinarily. It's the very last of the late season fruiters around here. If I had to describe the way it tastes, I'd say it's rather bland, with a hint of burning leaves and wistfulness

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 5d

Olive oysterling
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S. serotina
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#mushrooms #wildmushrooms #rambleinthebramble

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 6d

Mouses' houses
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

One and three-quarters beehive stacks of split hardwood. Where I started today

Two beehive stacks of split hardwood. A little less than 3 1/2 cords. Where I finished the day, after deciding to complete the top of the closest stack with some four-ft long sticks. It looks very halloween-ish to me, like a witch's hat

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, the switch takes some getting used to. Pros: No algo, no ads, no being fascist adjacent. Cons: Less reach, character limit, photie limit. (But the last two could be a benefit, as in, forced to be pithy and to take better snaps)

Ayuh, regards to NH!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 7d

Good to see you here, 7E

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 8d

Symmetrical wood stacking . . . definitely a human activity 😉

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 8d

So "holzhausen" already sounds plural
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My German is non-existent
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So plural would be holzhäuser?
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Think I'll just call them beehive stacks, when they're done
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, Bill. The two in front, fired four times, were fired upside down on posts the first three. The dark streaks are due to the frozen drips of crystalized ash on the rims running back into the interior when fired upright the last time through the flame

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes it's worth refiring
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

Woodfired bowls on a weathered hemlock board. The pair in back were fired thrice. The pair in front were fired "forthce"

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 11d

Arresting, the way the iron and titanium act

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 11d

Finished the hardwood holzhausen
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It will cure for a year, be ready to help fire the kiln next fall
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I'll use the wood under roof in the background to fire next spring
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

A circular stack of firewood known as a holzhausen. It's composed of freshly cut and split hardwood, mostly oak and maple

A cord of wood is 4'x4'x8', or 128cu.ft. The cylindrical part of the stack is 7' across and 5' high and the volume of a cylinder=π•r²•h, so: 3.14x3.5²x5=192cu.ft., or 1½ cords. So about 1⅔ cords I figure, counting the roof

The wood under roof in the back of the holzhausen is drier, and will be ready by spring. Probably burn six or seven of the nine cords stored there next May

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 14d

It wasn't half though. It was a third of those eligible to vote. A third didn't bother, not to downplay the difficulty of. Maybe some of that ⅓ will find a way to do so next time, even enuff to overcome gerrymandering. If there's a next time. It took (half of) Germany 16 years and a world war.

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 15d

Crystals! Sweet

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 15d

And we were on Maine Street in Brunswick!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 15d

A costume, some signs, and a t-shirt from earlier today, brought to you by citizens who love their country

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 18d

Started building a holzhausen on top of four pallets with overflow hardwood, mostly oak, maple and cherry
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There's still some room under the wood storage roof for pine or other soft wood
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PSA: No Kings (or Nazis) this Saturday (or ever)
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire

A hollow, half-built circular woodpile--a holzhausen, or beehive stack--made from split logs of oak, maple, black cherry and a little yellow and paper birch, sitting on top of wooden pallets and concrete blocks. Currently about four feet high. The inside will be filled with wood, and the outer wall will move inward, like the top of a beehive, from this point on. Final dimensions will be some seven feet in diameter and the same in height

The inside of the holzhausen, to be filled with more split hardwood

Split wood under roof for next year's firings. Softwood (pine, spruce, hemlock) on the left, hardwood (oak, maple, cherry, beech, birch) on the right. There's room on the left for some more pine still to be split. Because I burn half hard, half soft, I try to keep one side exclusively for each. Hard for the heat, soft for the ash

Two piles of logs still to be split. Pine in the foreground, mostly maple behind

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 21d

Maple, pine, oak, and more maple
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Wood processing for the kiln occupies me for several weeks in autumn
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It will be placed under roof to dry over the winter, to be ready for firing in May
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Oh yeah
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FDT
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama

Maybe a face cord of white pine rounds from three dead trees I felled and bucked yesterday

A cord of red oak. Broke down and bought it

Another cord of silver maple bolts and rounds, waiting to be split

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Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 23d

Holy Hen, Batman, this one's so immaculate it's glowing
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Does anyone else find it hilarious that the Regime is jealous that another right-winger in a different authoritarian"shit hole" country won the Nobel Peace Prize?
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#henofthewoods #mushrooms #wildmushrooms
#rambleinthebramble

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 25d

WOW!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks, Liz!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Bill. I had a few other pieces I glazed with oribe and refired. One or two came out well, like this one. The rest were a mottled matte pink and green--too much of a reduced atmosphere for oribe. I'll heat those up again in an electric kiln, to turn them the right color!

Clay Flambé @cleanmuddauber.bsky.social · 27d

An oribe refire
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It was slip and shino on the exterior, the first time through the flame
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And FDT for trying to create the very conditions for which he might invoke the Insurrection Act
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What mirth there must be in Zhongnanhai and the Kremlin
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire

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