"Thank you again for the amazing website and wealth of information!!! InsightLive is proving to be an incredible asset as well!!!"
"And I don't know how to thank you enough for your help with your website. What a wonderful and complete tool you provide!"
"Thanks, Your enthusiastic new subscriber."
"We love your work with Digital Fire. You've single handedly breathed life into many, many ceramics companies through your generous approach to sharing information. I can't tell you how valuable we have found your content to be. Thank you. "
"Yet again, you provide a quick answer not easily found elsewhere (a bowl was befuddling me with wall cracks that never made it to any edges.)"
"I just want to thank you for this most interesting and informative article. I just did a general search for the compatibility of a stoneware glaze on porcelain, and your page came up! Wow! what a mine of information and just what I needed as I was also looking for a slip recipe for my students."
"I think the work you do with glaze chemistry is invaluable and amazing. And unique to the industry."
"Also thank you for the quality of your website, I've learned so much from it."
"I wish to thank you for letting people like me use the information you have on the endless glaze articles you do, for free. Yes I am embarrassed not contributing but sadly currency exchange rates makes payment at the moment way out of my league. However, should you prefer I don't use your amazing site please let me know. Again my thanks for the glaze education I am getting from you."
"How amazing it is to have personal contact on such an amazing technical site and I can’t express my gratitude for your generous spirit. "
"First i'd love to thank you for all the info you provide on digitalfire. it is an absolutely amazing resource and the way that you explain glaze chemistry/reactions has really helped expand my practice...I crave understanding and wisdom."
"When it comes to new technology, I'm still thrilled with the chainsaw as apposed to an ax. I really do like glaze testing. You see a recipe in a book but it doesn't do you a lot of good until you can see it on a tile."
"My glazes activities are seasonal anyway. In the summer i make pots in winter I think about chemistry and sit at a PC. I looked at your pricing again and it is indeed reasonable."
"Your site is the most useful of them all for material info. and more. Thank you."
"Many, many thanks for DigitalFire! It is a wonderful collection of information and experience. "
"I wanted you to know that, you have a fantastic program. Every serious potter should use it. And it would be a good starting curriculum for high school and college to learn from. Thanks for, I would imagine, many hours in developing time. Kudos sir. I hope, by God's good will that I will be able to enjoy it for any years to come."
"Thank you very much for your website, as a amateur Potter I find it an incredibly useful source of information about all kinds of things pottery related and when I'm trying to make glazes for example I will often refer to your website for guidance."
"I have learned alot from you."
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"I am a production potter and I have been using your website for information, and I have made many improvements from articles posted on this site."
"Thank you for this web site. Really thank you. I live in fear that it will disappear one day, so don’t ever delete it please!"
"You are due many complements on your site and software. I usually have your A - Z materials dictionary open in my web browser."
"I would like to thank you, I have looked through books and books and books, and here you are with so much fantastic information about what to do with the free clay that we can find outside. Even just saying that the clay has to be dry when you put it in water, what an eye opener. I am so amazed how well this works. "
"Your information has really been a Godsend to so many challenges we have overcome. All of your efforts have really made such a HUGE difference in our studio, rarely is there a day where your shared knowledge directly or indirectly is part of my life. We are eternally grateful for what you have unknowingly (until now) done for us."
"First, I want to thank you for all the help we got from Digital Fire; thank you very much for this huge work and to share it like that."
"Hey Tony, just like to say thanks for your fantastic site as it has been the best reference guide for my helper and I."
"Thank you for all the info you put into Digital Fire, it's an invaluable resource!"
"First off, I want to thank you for building Digitalfire. It is an incredibly valuable ceramic resource."
"Hello Mr. Hansen. Your digitalfire.com site is AMAZING! I use it considerably. Thank you so much for all the information you offer! I tell all my students and friends in clay to come here to learn. "
"Thank you for all your hard work in making this website for potters to use. We share it with everyone who comes to our store to better help answer their tougher clay questions or get them that extra education they're looking for. It's an indispensable resource. "
"Many thanks for your time and trouble, re the information cone 6. You are a wealth of generosity and help to the home Potter. "
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"The program is brilliant and I am thoroughly enjoying it!"
"Am learning to use Insight, love the articles in the reference database. Thank you for everything you have done and are doing."
"Thank you so much for your guidance and the tools you develop to help interested potters."
"I have done production pottery at cone 10 and 5 for 40 years, but during almost of full year of downtime due to COVID, I am exploring low fire terra cotta. Digital fire is an amazing resource. Thank you so much."
"Tony, you're a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks for the information. I'm a self-taught potter living in Hansville, WA. could not have done it without your scientific approach and papers. "
"I've said it before, but I can't say it enough, thank you for all your work on digitalfire and insight."
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"Thank you for your very informative website - it is a real help to one who has spent 40 years potting."
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"I'd like to say that I am so thankful for all the work you have done by creating and hosting Digitalfire. It has been an unparalleled resource for me as I learn more and more about glaze chemistry. I really enjoy your articles and photo comments and I'm just fascinated by the well of knowledge that seems to spring forth from them. "
"Tony, you are wonderful!"
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"Thanks again for your website. It has helped me no end."
"I love all the tips and insight live is a lot of fun as well as being an amazing tool. Thanks"
"I am a long time admirer of your ceramics data base and teach at ... University."
"Thank you for all of the information you publish on your website. Digitalfire has been my primary resource for researching raw materials and I will be soon be subscribing to Insight. Thank you so much for all of your work. My fellow students and I refer to your website almost daily. "
"I'm a professional potter from Western Australia with a 30 year career - self taught. I came across Digitalfire when researching raw materials - an incredible resource you've put together!"
"I join others (I'm sure) in thanking Tony for the incredible resource that is the digital fire library, and for the insight glaze calculation software and now website. Not a week goes by when I don't use all three of them and usually quite extensively."
"I am doing pottery now for abut 40 years and nowhere else I could find such an extensive, complete, to the point collection of information than in Digitalfire!"
"BTW, thanks for creating such a great site."
"Your website is like a encyclopedia for ceramics, whatever problem I have I first go to your website and refer to it and learn and understand about it. Thank you so much for your patience and time for helping."
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"WOW, WOW, WHAT GREAT INFO! thankyou! I am going to pass your site on to someone i know who is more keen on the science of glazes, than the potting, unlike me... she will love your test works and pics Wow! Thanks again. "
"You have done more for the advancement of ceramic knowledge than anyone I can think of. Thanks again! The information you provide and the work you have done is invaluable. I can't tell you how many problems I have solved because of insight and the reference library! Thanks again for all of the help you have provided."
"So appreciative in general for your work and writing on digitalfire. I've learned a lot. Truly invaluable. My background is in science - I really appreciate and gel with the curiosity and experimentation you bring to the field, structured knowledge and approach, not to mention the open access and tracker-free site. Really cuts through the noise, and there's a lot of it. Thank you!!"
"I read your articles for years, and it really helped me to better understand ceramics."
"First of all I'd like to convey all my gratitude and an immense thank you for all the work and research that you make available for the ceramic community, it is invaluable."
"Please know that your work is really benefiting me in my work. I really was helped by your information about drop and soak at cone 6. I've had trouble with an otherwise beautiful glaze which develops blisters. Thanks for your 'Insight!'"
"First of all I want to say that your website is just incredible. So many great information and tips!"
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"Thank ou for this website! Your information is incredibly valuable. It is the Crown Jewel of the Online Pottery community."
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"Your website is such a valuable and dependable wealth of knowledge. I’ve had a break from ceramics for a couple of years and have loved that I’ve been able to return to the Insight Live database for my recipes and have read countless articles of yours on glazes. Thank you!"
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"I simply want to let you know that the digitalfire reference library is a treasure. Every time I look it up I learn something new, and I have a hard time to tear myself away. I have a number of books on my shelf, but if I had to choose just one reference source, it would be digitalfire. There is an enormous amount of work behind all the entries in the library. For me, it has enriched my practice and helped me advance in a way that cannot be measured."
"Thank you for your incredible library of information. I have a background in QA (Six Sigma) and Biology so I genuinely appreciate the information you've made easily accessible."
"I want to first tell you that your site is amazing. i love the approach, the attitude, and the incredible information. the fact taht you share so much of your information to the public is truly wonderful. I recenly fell in love with ceramics and set up a home studio."
"I'm definitely a fan, I can see how hyper-focused you are on ceramics and it's nice to learn from you, but also I like the intensity, you've been doing this for decades. I'm kind of curious if you're autistic too, your level of focus is unusual for neurotypical folk. Anyhow, thank you for your research and hard work. They have benefited me a great deal, and a lot of the things I've learned from you I haven't seen elsewhere."
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"You are such a godsend, Tony. Even though I taught ceramic science for 30 years I find myself constantly using your site and learning something every time. Just want to say thanks, thanks, thanks…."
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"Insight live is great...!"
"Thank you so much for this wonderful resource you have created! I have found all of the information in the Digital Fire database as well as Insight to be incredibly helpful tools in the ceramic world."
"I teach glaze technology at ... the information that you display on your this website is absolutely fundamental for my teaching."
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"First, thank you for your site. I am approaching the subject from a more technical side of things rather than decorative or functional pottery but I have found the knowledge you share to be some of the most practical and useful information I have seen anywhere."
"Thank you so much for visiting my site. It really means so much to me, being that the info and recipes on Digitalfire helped me SO much and greatly contributed to where I am today with my pottery. I am so grateful for all of the information you share!"
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"On a small aside. I want to thank you for all the work you have done over the years, firstly to inspire people like myself to see the technical side of ceramics as such a beautiful side of the art and not just a finished result that was lucky. And on that note with how much I read your blog, waiting for daily posts, reading all the old articles again and again, I see your mugs with the wheat grass on them all time, and was wondering if you ever put them up for sale. It's been an icon of my learning and would love to have one of the infamous mugs themselves."
"I just want to say THANK YOU for this incredible database of information. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"If you didn’t know yet (most people don’t really express how they feel so I’m talking on behalf of the whole pottery community), you have become our most trusted & valuable ‘all things pottery’ resource. Thank you for your time, and the wisdom you share with all of us. I’m a humble newbie and i want to tell you how much I rely on the information you post and how much I appreciate everything you do. I want to name you ‘the clay angel!’."
"Learning ceramics has been a long process full of tests, frustration but at the end full satisfaction once we learn more every day... Thank you for your website, I use it for constant reference"
"Thanks Tony for your excellent stuff. I am learning a lot. Its of complete knowledge at ease. God bless you !!! "
"I am learning so much from your website, even after 33 years in business as a ceramic producer."
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"And I want to add - you are doing a magnificent job with your webpage. Just unbelievable amount of work and information you put there. I have learned a lot from your webpage. Thank you. "
"I want to thank you for creating all that extensive and wonderful material in Digital Fire and Insight Live. I have started with the process of creating my own glazes a little bit more than a year ago, process that I found exciting and challenging and thanks to your websites it has been a lot easier!"
"I have not been potting for nearly 20 years. Your website is an oracle. Thank you."
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"In the 4 decades or so of my academic career, glaze chemistry was one of my favourite subjects, though it was too 'scientific' for most students! Your Insight-Live programme is really super! Thanks once again for all you are doing to keep the discipline alive and kicking."
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"I think you have done a great job in developing the on-line version. It is very easy to use. We meet once a month to discuss any glaze problems, test glazes in teams, and I do a presentation on an aspect of glaze chemistry. One day, I said something technical and one of the member's jaw dropped and she said "Hey, I just realized I understood what you said". It was a proud moment."
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"Your work is so thorough and helpful Tony. When I read your articles I suddenly feel I know nothing, despite working professionally with ceramics since 1997! "
"I love getting them on a regular basis and wanted to let you know that I greatly appreciate all the knowledge you have shared with me over the years. Its made an enormous difference in the quality of my work."
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"Just wanted to say thanks for such a great and useful product. Been learning via pen & paper, which I don't regret, but I should've signed up a lot sooner. "
"Thank you for the amazing information. I couldn’t find an online ceramics class that I could take to learn about clay and glaze chemistry, so I am thankful that I found this. Is there a way I can donate to support the site?"
"I just wanted to say, thank you! I’m relatively new to pottery, taking a mostly self-taught approach and I’m at the stage where glazing is in my mind. I don’t want to be (and can’t see myself ever) buying glazes from commercial suppliers. I want to learn my craft with glaze as much as I do with my clay preparation and pottery making. I’ve seen “the dragon” and been uninspired by so much of what I find online and to be honest, in many glaze books. It seems more popular to try and present a mass of glaze possibilities than to offer a learning experience beyond being told a glaze needs a melter, a refractory and a glass-maker. Enough to offer a very basic understanding, but nothing upon which to build the understanding that will allow some degree of mastery (or at least influence) of your glaze making. I am so pleased to have found digitalfire.com. You’ve shown me exactly how to approach and understand glazing, giving me the foundation for approach I sought. I was thinking of base glazes and what you’ve shown me about working on from those is fantastic and exactly what I was looking for. To have a reliable base glaze to modify and develop to meet different needs; to understand how to shift a melting point or adjust the surface gloss; to come to know how the mechanisms in a glaze and understanding them gives me the route to creating glazes that realize my intentions - wow! I can’t thank you enough. Rather than having to form a dumb reliance on a book of recipe cards and a bunch of website bookmarks (which I wasn’t wanting to go for) you’ve given me the foundation for a lifelong development and understanding of the glazes I will make, that will become “my” glazes. You have really opened my mind to the whole subject and it doesn’t seem to be a problem that I’m no scientist or chemist. You’ve shared your knowledge in a way that is completely approachable and remarkably easy to understand for someone without any kind of science/chemistry background. "
"As a side note: most of the students did access your information in their presentations. I found it interesting that your work is becoming foundational."
"A big thank you for sharing your vast knowledge through this site. I have spent many an hour scouring your articles and learning. Your depth of understanding of so many different aspects of ceramics often exceeds what is available in many books."
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"THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your continuing contributions to the ceramic world! [Yes, all caps is shouting, intentionally so!] I've been following Digital Fire for about 25 years now. Many of those years passed with my studio packed in crates in storage. I now have leads on space to reopen. You've kept my passion alive through your postings."
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"Love the email I got today about the clear glaze because I have an account! Thank you for all you do. These emails are a great idea."
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"I discovered your website after trial and failure for 35 years. WOW ! The questions you have answered for me and the knowledge are immeasurable To think I am going to get past the Science and onto the Art makes me near giddy. Your site is amazing. My college age kids are going to be dazzled I did this. Every single college ceramic studio should know about your site. I want to tell them! "
"Planarity in 1200c tile May 2018"
"Your site is a crucially important one, and I'm happy to help you, even in small ways. "
"I would like to honour my commitment to the great work you do. It is an invaluable resource! Just a huge thank you!"
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"We've referred to your site so many times over the last year and I can't express how incredibly valuable a resource it is."
"I am a big fan of your work. I want to thank you for being there when I have needed and hopefully I will be able to carry on without much input from you. I will be renewing my subsrciption soon and I extol the virtues of the program (and now the Cloud version) to everyone that will listen."
"I take this opportunity to appreciate your efforts in sharing all the information related to ceramics on the Digital Fire website. It is really helpful. I am from India. We work towards reducing mining for natural resources by 60% through making (fired) recycled ceramic products."
"I work at a small, but rapidly growing custom slip-cast studio. The first few years were a learning curve gauntlet that, in retrospect, I am surprised we exited intact. This preface is to give a sense of how in debt I am to your research and hard work. I have had to learn as I go along, and the information you provide at digitalfire.com has been indispensable, and, quite frankly, an excellent cover for my ignorance on countless occasions! It is also the only source of information about many ceramics topics that I feel I can trust, knowing that it has been backed up with careful consideration and testing. Thank you again."
"I am a Brazilian potter and, despite my difficulty with the English language, I have learned a lot from this site. I want to thank you very much for the immense help you give me in the "most difficult times". "
"Reported me for spamming Sept 2022."
"Let me begin by saying thank you! The resource you have provided is immensely valuable! Ive learned more from your website than I did during grad school.. jokes on me. Thank you for everything!"
"Thanks for your amazing resources at digital fire. They have been invaluable in understanding clay, as I’m getting started with ceramics. Your emphasis to focus on the chemistry has made the art of ceramic very accessible indeed. "
"I just wanted to express my appreciation for digital fire. It's an invaluable resource that I've been using since I was 18 years old (more than a decade). Keep up the amazing work."
"Had quite quite a few problems learning to enter recipes."
"Thanks Tony. You are offering a very valuable service to the potters."
"As many other users on the web, I want to congratulate you for your amazing digital fire website. "
"Brilliant!"
"With a major in ceramics i have been working in the glaze lab of a big sanitary ware production company for about 3 years now. I want to tell you how much i appreciate the work that you do and the knowledge that you share, through out the 7 years that i have been studying and working in the Ceramics field. You have been the most important source of knowledge for me no one has ever taught me as much as you did through digitalfire. I truly love ceramics its quite a beautiful field to work in and i love and excel at what i do and big part of that is because of the guidance that you provide. And that really means alot to me to see a research or a test work out as i planned."
"You have no clue how much this site has inspired and helped me develop my love for ceramics and chemistry."
"You are an essential source -- I am a huge fan and spread the word when someone asks me a technical question."
"Thanks for sharing your extensive knowlege with the clay community."
"Tony - thank you so much! The information that you directed me is better than I could have imagined. I it has helped me learn more about how to drive a glaze formula design toward outcome objectives."
"I have been following your Site and posts continually and gained a greater understanding. Thank you for that. It is so exciting to have a positive outcome from your glazes rather then the bought glazes. ... All good and exciting. My pottery clients are excited and have recognized the difference. There is nothing better than to pass on the best work possible to those who love the pots. So much work and testing, but well worth it. Thank you so much. "
"Sure do like Insight and I've switched to using the live version. It's excellent! "
"If, like Japan, Canada had a custom of selecting certain artisans as “national treasures“ you would certainly qualify - not only for your expertise as a ceramic chemist, but for your compassion for us less expert potters!"
"First I want to thank you for the service you're providing the ceramics community at large."
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"I have used the digital fire database for years and am beyond grateful for your work."
"I am a potter of over ten years and am now in this year paying attention to my glazes and what goes in to them. It's been an awesome journey with plenty of "ah ha" moments and exponentially more "what the..." moments. Regardless of what I'm feeling, digital fire is so far the best resource I've encountered. I’ve been going about glazes all wrong, following recipes and stabbing in the dark hoping to find one that Works for me... well, it’s not working! I’m devoting my time to explore glaze chemistry even more than I have and to do this I am convinced I can not go forward efficiently without a test kiln. THANK YOU for these wonderful resources!"
"I love insight BTW. I have been showing everyone at Alfred how easy it is to do UMF while comparing two recipes next to each other. The up and down toggles make it easy to understand cause and effect. They are also impressed how easily i can switch between my computer and smartphone and maintain all my work and recipes. BTW I just love insight. It has changed my experience and knowledge of glazes drastically. "
"Muchas gracias por su trabajo, tan meticuloso y de tanta ayuda para comprender los procesos cerámicos."
"This article on porcelain is terriffic. I've been slip casting my own porcelain formula for nearly 40 years, and wish I had read it way back when I was first starting out! You provide exceedingly useful information- especially pertaining to the difficulties of trying to maintain consistency in a world of materials that are changing rapidly or disappearing entirely!"
"Awesome site...you do great work!"
"Absolutely love the insight-live web app."
"I personally think that collaborations with the greatest expert in the sector makes me richer in knowledge and it will allow me to discover the fantastic secrets of ceramic."
"Thank you! Tony for all of the impressive work that you have contributed to our industry over the years. Your glaze work has been super helpful."
"I appreciate all you do for the ceramic community. I follow and read all you put up, someday I pray for a better understanding of glazes and all that encompasses. "
"I use the site often and appreciate all the information you share so willingly. Mostly the site is a fantastic reference and has profoundly improved my understanding of glaze chemistry."
"Your Digital Fire is so important in this community!"
"May 2023 wants to teaching glaze, defect solving workshops "
"Anyway I thank you for your efforts in putting together this wealth of ceramic science in this accessible manner. "
"You are brilliant .. You have provided so much info that is great. I have been a full time potter for 44 years and am still learning. Thank you so much for your generosity in sending this very pertinent information to me. It certainly has me thinking I should sign on to Digital Fire. Thanks again."
"Let me be the next person to thank you for putting this amazing material together. Insight-live + Digitalfire has catapulted me up the learning curve."
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"It’s been now a couple of weeks that I learn everyday with you and your amazing project. I find your way of tackling experiments clear, practical and smart. I wish more quality content like yours was available on all of my interest topics! "
"Thank you so much for the fantastic info and knowledge you provide for us potters on your page!"
"I'd just like to say that I love Digital Fire and I'm on here pretty much everyday. It has been soo helpful. Even though I am still leaning and exploring what I can do with the program it has been a huge help, and I believe it will be for years to come. I'm such a fan of your glaze software and tell all them members here .. what a tremendous asset it is to my practice. "
"Thanks! I look forward to seeing your posts. I have read and printed many things you have posted over many years. Have learned a lot from you."
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