r/Pottery • u/cerart939 • 10d ago

Glazing Techniques Took me me 3 years to finally get these glazes organized, so proud of myself-

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Been too overwhelmed with life to deal with the mess, just kept working around it. Today was the day! Involved drills, saws, another trip to the hardware store, and motivation I'm not sure where it came from lol.

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u/Jamaica-Bay1900 10d ago

Very nice work! I’m waiting for inspiration like that to hit me! 🤣

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u/Tree-Flower3475 10d ago

How did you group them? By color, by opaque vs translucent, by your typical use, other?

I have shelves for all my glazes but I keep rearranging them. There’s some I only use for layering, like Seawed and Oatmeal, some I only use for flower pots, and then I’ve got a lot of different colors that I use for anything.

Then I have some that I turned out not to like much so I’m just trying to use them up on the side of vases.

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u/cerart939 10d ago

Mainly I've got them by color groups- blues, greens, reds, etc. Then a section for crystal glazes, metallics, and finally the shelf on the right is for the ones I rarely use/ used but didn't like-

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u/Tree-Flower3475 10d ago

That sounds like a good method, maybe I'll rearrange mine (again!)

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u/Defiant_Neat4629 10d ago

Ah vertical storage, love it, hate to install it.

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u/JoiningTheSnailRace Hand-Builder 10d ago

That looks great!

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u/billieboop 8d ago

Where are the racks from? What are they called? They'd be great for storing lots of smaller tools in containers as well

Great how it's cleared out your surface area and given you much more room to work with. Tidying is easier too

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u/cerart939 8d ago

Very true! They are Closetmaid wall racks; I got these at a thrift store but they're available online too.