{"id":48,"date":"2008-03-11T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-03-11T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","slug":"first-mugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/first-mugs.html","title":{"rendered":"First Mugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first mugs I have ever attempted. Don&#8217;t know why I waited so long. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how much they deform from the weight of the handles during firing. If I want chosen garatsu, then I can&#8217;t put them on those nifty little angled discs specifically made for handled cups, because the glaze will all run at an angle. I may try one that way anyway just to see what it looks like. Call it &#8216;windblown&#8217;chosen garatsu, or somesuch.<br \/>The handles are all altered from a rat tail of clay. The clay was way too open even after I added ball clay to the already plastic (comparatively)handbuilding karatsu claybody I buy from Hara Toudo. Tried to pull the handles with a little water, and got huge cracks after the second pull or so. So&#8230; I laid the rat tail on the table, flattened it a bit and shaped it with my fingers, sort of a handle pulling exercise while stuck to the table, so no cracking. The first to the last I made that day are all here in the pictures. You can probably tell which are which. : )<br \/>The next batch of cups I made with some white clay from Seto which was the medium (fine, medium, rough)roughness from that particular company. Handles pulled beautifully, even with all that grog. Sometimes I wish the karatsu clays were a bit more user friendly. The Seto clay mugs are not pictured here but I&#8217;ll put them up as soon as they get bisqued.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/R9XyBlG5EHI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/7NOfHO8O0-U\/s1600-h\/DSC01126.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/R9XyBlG5EHI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/7NOfHO8O0-U\/s200\/DSC01126.JPG?w=1200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176309455687061618\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/R9XyCFG5EII\/AAAAAAAAALI\/FLJpGyYINzM\/s1600-h\/DSC01127.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KMbQ9CXSwic\/R9XyCFG5EII\/AAAAAAAAALI\/FLJpGyYINzM\/s200\/DSC01127.JPG?w=1200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176309464276996226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first mugs I have ever attempted. Don&#8217;t know why I waited so long. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how much they deform from the weight of the handles during firing. If I want chosen garatsu, then I can&#8217;t put them on those nifty little angled discs specifically made for handled cups, because [&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-48","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-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}