{"id":2754,"date":"2016-09-07T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:13:51","slug":"visiting-the-clay-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/visiting-the-clay-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the clay guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Shoukotoudo in Ureshino this morning to check out some of the new clay bodies they’ve been working on. Matsuo San, the owner, showed me some fired samples from a new body made to mimic the properties of the old Yamase clay. It looked so good I bought 135kg for testing. Really looking forward to playing with it. <\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of one of the machines in the factory, one ton batches!<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here is a freshly pugged batch, he was just feeding in the filter press cakes when I pulled up. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd finally:<\/p>\n

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I went to Shoukotoudo in Ureshino this morning to check out some of the new clay bodies they’ve been working on. Matsuo San, the owner, showed me some fired samples from a new body made to mimic the properties of the old Yamase clay. It looked so good I bought 135kg for testing. Really looking […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clay","category-pottery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-Iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}