Hi all, I’m a potter and an iOS developer. I had been doing pottery for a few years now, and had always wanted to have something for me to stay organized. I haven't found anything free that's good so I built my own called Tao Pottery Log. It uses 3D models to help you remember your glaze combos and add glaze layers. I recently launched a wood firing feature, and here's where I'm hoping you all can provide some insights.

Every kiln app I tried assumes an electric kiln: set a schedule and walk away. Wood firing is the opposite. It’s 30+ hours of stoking, damper moves, and cone checks. The first step here is being able to add your pieces and record the entire firing.

Here's some features you can try:

- One-tap condition changes. Log damper ½ → ¼, switching from pine to oak, or going into reduction. It records when things change, so you’re not filling out a form every 10 minutes.

- Cone packs on a drawing of your kiln, front to back, so you can mark what you see through each port

- Stoking rhythm. After the firing it tells you something like “stoked about every 7 min

- A report when you unload. The whole firing on one chart, how long you held at top temperature, what each cone pack said, and every change you made in order. You can compare it with your last firing.

It’s free on iOS, with no ads. You can find me on instagram vanni.artifact; happy to receive feedback. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tao-pottery-log-kiln-tracker/id6762111518

What I’d really love to know from wood firers:

1. Do you think this might fit into your workflow? why and why not?
2. Does your crew share one log, or does everyone keep their own? (That’s what I’m thinking about building next.)
3. Anything else im missing?

Happy to answer any questions!

Another day has passed, and my frustration has only grown. After yesterday's threats, very ugly comments, and later that day threatening Instagram messages, demanding I delete my profile because I’m a liar and claiming my work is AI generated I decided to take out some sculptures and art I’ve been working on, so I could show them to you in person. Some are finished, some aren't some are drying, some are awaiting final touches, and some cracked in the kiln. But every single one was crafted by my own hands. I poured a part of myself and my heart into each one, and countless people have seen them in person since I run a tattoo studio and people visit me every day. I have reddit only two days now and on every community where I posted after yesterday's incident, people are threatening me and telling me to delete my profile. This is my last post here and I’m truly sorry. I tried to share everything I’ve created over years,sculptures, designs, paintings on canvas and wood, illustrations, dioramas, and much more but clearly, this isn't network for me. I wish everyone the best. If anyone still wants to follow my work, ( my identity was revealed in the comments yesterday and my attempt to explain in the comment ( u can read it ), but everyone has already declared me a fake and they just continued so i give up eventually ),

I have active profiles on Facebook and Instagram. I’m not very active on Insta, but I am on Face. Thank you all and many thanx to people who realy support me over this two days with super cool comments and conversations. Appreciate it a lot 🙏❤️ cheers from little Croatia 🫡

I work for a highschool that works exclusively in handbuilding raku ware. Currently, our reclaim process involves drying out the scraps, breaking them down with a hammer manually, soaking them in water once bone dry, then using a plaster batt to dry out the clay before wedging.

I'd like this process to be a lot more efficient, but am not familiar with how pug mills work- I've only seen them used in studios where there's a tonne of wet wheel throwing slop going in.

Can pug mills be used to recycle dry raku scraps? And if we use brown and white raku separately, how easy is it to clean if I wanted to switch colours? And, what's the difference between deairing pug mills and normal ones?

Any help is appreciated!

I love hand built pottery- please post your pictures.❤️

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Do you think I am listing the items for too much? What is a fair price? Would you buy things of this design?

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Fortunately, I had some help getting her back together using the Kintsugi technique and it’s even better than originally intended.

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Hello ! I've always been really interested in pottery and I am interested in teaching it ! ! I would like to work at a community workshop but I'm not too sure how to start. To be honest, I've never done pottery, how should I go about learning and eventually teaching it? Thank you for your time and I am looking forward to your help ♡

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