{"id":101,"date":"2009-12-18T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-12-18T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:44:00","slug":"droplets-of-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/droplets-of-iron.html","title":{"rendered":"Droplets of Iron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some much needed blog catch up. Just unloaded the kiln yesterday and have a little breather time.<\/p>\n<p>This last firing I put some things in saggars with charcoal and fired. Had some very interesting results, including something I&#8217;d been aiming for (for a change). Noticed one strange thing: when I polished the rough surfaces with 240 wet sandpaper, I&#8217;d get these shiny spots. I thought that water was filling small holes which were created when the sandpaper broke off the surface of tiny bubbles in the glaze. This was actually happening, but when I looked at the surface through a loupe it became apparent that the shiny objects were small droplets of iron which filled the bubbles. I was actually able to remove one by prying it out carefully. Here are some pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/Sys0WNtcZ1I\/AAAAAAAAA10\/hAS1EJSsWxw\/s1600-h\/DSC04276.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/Sys0WNtcZ1I\/AAAAAAAAA10\/hAS1EJSsWxw\/s320\/DSC04276.JPG?w=1200\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416480533085185874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/Sys0V6qBvXI\/AAAAAAAAA1s\/YfVdqM0kxAs\/s1600-h\/DSC04275.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/Sys0V6qBvXI\/AAAAAAAAA1s\/YfVdqM0kxAs\/s320\/DSC04275.JPG?w=1200\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416480527970581874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some much needed blog catch up. Just unloaded the kiln yesterday and have a little breather time. This last firing I put some things in saggars with charcoal and fired. Had some very interesting results, including something I&#8217;d been aiming for (for a change). Noticed one strange thing: when I polished the rough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}