Clay

The clay body is a rich red version of our Calico clay. Fires brick red in oxidation and red/brown in reduction.

Navajo Wheel 412 is an outstanding throwing body, especially formulated for the studio potter as well as the production potter. Navajo Wheel 412 contains a 35 mesh grog that lends good structural strength enabling the potter to throw tall forms and still retain smoothness while throwing. A rich red tile color at cone 5 or 6 and a dark brown can be acquired with a moderate reduction at cone 5.

This is a fluxed up version of our Navajo Wheel Clay making it vitreous at mid range temperatures. Fires slightly darker than Navajo Wheel regular but has the same great throwing characteristics.

Navajo Wheel is a blend of IMCO clays selected to produce a smooth textured plastic red clay. Navajo Wheel is an excellent wheel and hand building clay where a deep red tile color is desired. An excellent clay for school. This clay is made of local clays, having traveled an average of 35 miles from pit to our pug mill. This clay was originally designed as a cone 6 body but as the clay has changed in the pits Navajo Wheel now vitrifies at cone 8 (this change occurred around 2015)

Low expansion, semi-coarse high temperature body for refractory use. Best refractory quality when fired at Cone 13.

A light to medium tan clay with distinctive speckling.

Gray in the raw form with a medium sand texture. A popular body for general purpose use. Large and thick-walled pieces are prone to cracking. In light to medium reduction, Rod's Bod fires to a warm brown with iron specks which generally bleed into glazes forming brown specks.

A similar formulation to Low Fire White but with grog and sand added to produce a stronger, true white earthenware clay body. May be fired to Cone 1 for even greater strength.

A unique smooth white clay blend high in plastic ball clays. It is a smooth, very plastic, porcelain-type body successfully used for both small and medium-large functional wheel thrown ware.

Semi-smooth red body with sand and grog. Fires paver tile red in oxidation and chocolate in reduction.

Sculptural Brown. A very coarse sculpting body. Excellent for large and super-large forms.

Sculpture 412 has the same rugged qualities as regular Sculpture Mix. A finer 35 mesh grog has been substituted for the coarse 20 mesh grog giving the clay a smoother texture with easy handling and throwing qualities. Sculpture 412 is a truly fine, all purpose sculpting and throwing clay. Considered by many studio potters to be the best raku clay body available today. Sculpture 412 fires to a soft buff color in oxidation and a toast tan in reduction. ...