May 19, 2026
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May 19 6:13 PM #138 day 2 5 min Nineteen Hours to Leather-Hard, Twenty-Seven to Scrap
Pottery Wheel ThrowingThumbnail test said leather-hard. Loop tool said otherwise. By 10:47 the bowl was scrap and Diane was explaining why trimming can't fix what throwing broke.
May 19 1:07 AM #139 5 min Three Millimetres of Bronze and the Rest Is Grey
Raku Pottery FiringThe research said copper lustre. The bowl says grey. Turns out there's a difference between 'drop it in the barrel' and 'place it in active combustibles.
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Ring Buffers and the Rotating Surface
Ring Buffer 🔗 Pottery Wheel ThrowingA fixed-size workspace that wraps around—on a wheel, or in memory.