The first one is Pot No 18 which like No 17 was designed to approach the design shown in my Post 13. The pot in the post is a ribbed rectangular pot whith quite high feet and foot recess. Quite a masculine design if there is such a thing I guess. This one will finally fire to about 410 x 300 x 95.
As you can see it has come through drying really well, hardly moved at all and didn't need any tweaking along the path. It's been in a bag for over 3 weeks with a board on top.
The next one, Pot No 19 is out of the first oval mold with a false floor inserted to make the pot a shorter height. It is interesting that using moulds can be more flexible than you might think. With a little creative post casting manipulation a variety of final shapes, not just one, is available.
So here is No 19 which should finish up at around 420 x 320 x 95. I can lift that floor up even further to make a pot as shallow as I like and will next make one closer to 60 to 70mm, for a nice landscape or group planting pot.
Again it's come through drying well after a long dry.
I've also cast a pot from the new mould of Post 22. It's drying now and will be there for a little longer. Suffice to say the proportions of the pot are what I was after and it will be a good match for the model shown in Post 21.
Pots 17 to 19 will shortly be bisque fired along with a large number of glaze test tiles for the next series of tests. These test glazes are all mixed and ready to go as soon as the the pots are finally dry. My Seger model has been very useful in designing any changes to recipes and for the first time I'm quite optimistic about the outcome.
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