Mixing clay.
Today was the first run of our “new” clay mixer. In the spirit of recycling, the mixer is a converted 1915 dough mixer from an old bakery.
As you can see here, its powered by the still useable motor portion of an old generator.
(Our other mixer, which served us well but finally rusted out this spring, was made from a Second World War anti-aircraft gun.)
October 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
[...] October 27, 2008 in clay, pottery, raw materials | Tags: alabama, baldwin county, clay deposit, digging clay, native clay, stoneware, webb As you may know, the majority of the clay we use for our functional ware is native clay which we dig locally and process right here at our studio. (I posted previously about our clay mixer) [...]