Raku!

Japanese for Pleasure. A chance as a potter to play with fire. You have to be careful and you have to be fast, or you will get hurt. The end results make it all worth it.

This is the Raku kiln.















This is a piece made by my friend Gram. We just took the lid off the kiln and the vase is at 1800 degrees.




Now he is doing his best to hurt himself. Just kidding.
The glaze on the vase is copper based, so he is rubbing it with newspaper to bring the copper to the surface. Fun Stuff!



This was a wedding present for my friends Bob and Holly. Don't you wish you were my friend?

Throwing (a technical term for "making the pots")

Here are a few pictures showing how to make a pot.






I teach classes at The Potters Shop down town Waukesha. The classes are 2 hours every Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30. You get 7 weeks and 25lbs of clay to make something. Hopefully something better than an ash tray or "modern art". Feel free to make whatever you want. Pottery is in the eye of the beholder.

Cost: $150.00 - includes 25lbs of clay and all firing fees -

Have a good day!

That's it for now. Thanks for coming to my site.
If you have any questions please e-mail me at:
pedersonpottery@hotmail.com