Color

Got great color on the porcelain. Copper reds, cobalt blues, volcanic ash blues and purple. Carbon trap bone colors, amber to white with smoke.
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  • Hi Rand, thanks for your interest. I have used the porcelain for headstock decor. I was rebuilding a very old five string that had stones and a big pocket in the head that had long since been lost. I did just a simple cabin scene using black on the white porcelain. It worked great. I've not tried it for bridge or nut. I like dog bone for that. Clay shrinks but you don't notice it so much in a little cylinder. It's the clay shrinking, not the bore within the slide. They stay close to the original. However, my Steven's style bars are shrinking a lot as they are a thick hunk of clay. The best way to figure out shrinkage is just to make a lot of slides and see how they fit. Just go for variety. You could keep track of the original to the finished product. I don't.
  • The top two rows second from left. I like those :)

  • They all look beautiful!

    You have given me a great idea of what to make in my pottery class... a set of various finger size slides. Maybe I'll even learn how to use one. I have also been thinking of pottery based nuts and bridges. Have you tried to use them. I think some inlaid pottery pieces in the headstock would be a great way to decorate instruments. Have you tried any of this?

    Also, clay shrinks maybe 15% or so. I guess you have to make the slides bigger to accommodate this shrinkage; how do you 'calculate' this?

    -Rand.

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