Digitalfire is facing a takedown order from Plainsman Clays. They are revoking permission to "use any Plainsman content" "on any platform". This is broad and vague enough, and this site large enough, that I am unable to comply or even interpret it in the short timeframe (June 27). Please don't panic, I am overwhelmed by the unbelievable support I am getting. We just need to get them to relent on this demand and call off the lawyer (to at least permit commentary). I would reconcile in a minute if it was possible.
People are panicking downloading/scraping again, overloading the server. I have to shut these pages down for a few hours.
Insight-live.com general operation is not affected by any of this.
This is from half a box! 21 mugs from 10 kg ( (all scrap was reclaimed). Polar Ice porcelain double the price of others. Why use it? Because it is so plastic that you can make more pieces, many more, enough to more than pay the extra clay cost. And you can charge more for each piece. These have a weight-to-capacity ratio of 1.09. That means the mug itself is lighter than the weight of water it can hold (each 1 gram of fired porcelain can contain 1.09 grams of water). This is much better than most other clay bodies.

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The more plastic a clay is the more pieces of a given size can be made from a box (boxes are 20kg or 44 lbs). Each mug thus required 500g of pugged clay. These have been trimmed and engobed (using our standard L3954B cone 6 engobe) and are drying (the trimmings left over are enough to make about two more). Notice I have waxed the outers of some of the handles to slow their drying (to keep it in sync with the mug itself). M390 is likely the most plastic native Plainsman body. Although it was not overly soft I stiffened up the clay for ten minutes on a plaster bat to make it my ideal stiffness for throwing.
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