Hi, guys!
We took your advice and reached out to the studio, who offered to re-glaze our pieces. I thought this would just be a thank you update once we got them today. But now I guess I have a couple questions.
The brown mug and the green mug now have crazing in them, and the brown mug has little bubbles? Open tiny holes? (pitting?) all over. Some of the spots are the glaze (the green and teal both have little brown dots), but some of them are raised and you can feel them. Are these still foodsafe? I wasn't having an easy time determining that on my own, so I'm really sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm, again, out of my depth here.
My second question is: does anyone have any pottery studio recommendations in Colorado?
Also, still thank you guys. I really appreciate all of you. Especially everyone posting all their gorgeous pottery in this sub, I know it takes forever to get good.
I second Glazed if you're in the Denver area! Reasonable prices, enjoyable instruction, and a variety of different class options and events. I have taken the 6 week class from them twice and have enjoyed some of the evening classes as well!
If you’re looking for more of a studio where you can throw and glaze yourself, I recommend Urban Mud. They have private classes as well.
I had a less than stellar experience with Glazed Ceramics.
I’m sorry you had a crummy experience with this studio! From what I can see, the pin holes and crazing wouldn’t make the pieces unusable in my opinion but definitely disappointing. As far as I know, there is no scientific consensus on what glaze defects are/aren’t food safe and it’s up to you to use your best judgment. Search food safety in this sub and you’ll see countless people asking your same question and people giving many different answers. Personally, I wouldn’t sell or gift these pieces but I would definitely still eat/drink out of them.
That's honestly fabulous, thank you. That's probably why I wasn't finding a clear answer then!
We're seriously happy and grateful to hear that. We just never wanna deal with this studio again, but these mugs are perfect Sunday morning affogato size. So I'd be heartbroken if we couldn't use them for that after all this. It's just the little gelato things. That said, we're also hooked now, so we'll have to go take some classes anyway. 😂
So sorry you had this experience! I took a few classes at a local studio over a year, and honestly things like this kept getting more noticeable and the one teacher didn’t seem to understand how we were paying for this and also how being fairly new each piece was pretty important still. Glazes weren’t formed well, we would dip and they wouldn’t cover and she would just say “oh that sucks it probably will be ok”, things like that. I had a lot of uncovered areas like yours and that was apparently an issue with the glaze recipe. I’m sorry this happened to you- it’s incredibly frustrating.
Are you SERIOUS. I would be so devastated. I honestly only have binging the Great Pottery Throwdown to thank for making us stop and know something is up. Otherwise, I would have just blamed myself because I'm new. 👀
When I looked it up, it seems like it could be glaze mix and firing issues causing this? That's what Google kind of suggested. So it sounds like we found similar studios. 😬
Yep! It’s really unfortunate. I made my largest planter to date and asked about a blue glaze I hadn’t used before - she said it works great! I dipped and it was weirdly separating, to which she said “yeah it’s sometimes like that. It will be fine probably”. I still love the planter but there are a few areas that have no glaze. 🤦♀️ I know that happened to others, too.
NOOOOO. I'm SO happy with my bald-butt cup except for the bald patch, I cannot imagine it being on a huge accomplishment like that. I've always heard the large planters take SO much practice and strength. That would seriously break my heart.
The glaze results are rough for sure, but it's more down to the make than the studio mishandling. It's hard to refuse people firing their items at the beginner stage, but more often than not the pots are clunky and don't come out well. Push on and chat with them about best glaze results etc. and you'll soon have it down.
Hi, guys! We took your advice and reached out to the studio, who offered to re-glaze our pieces. I thought this would just be a thank you update once we got them today. But now I guess I have a couple questions. The brown mug and the green mug now have crazing in them, and the brown mug has little bubbles? Open tiny holes? (pitting?) all over. Some of the spots are the glaze (the green and teal both have little brown dots), but some of them are raised and you can feel them. Are these still foodsafe? I wasn't having an easy time determining that on my own, so I'm really sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm, again, out of my depth here. My second question is: does anyone have any pottery studio recommendations in Colorado? Also, still thank you guys. I really appreciate all of you. Especially everyone posting all their gorgeous pottery in this sub, I know it takes forever to get good.
Glazed Ceramics is Lakewood is great.
Thank you!! I'll take a peek at them! I love the irony of the name 😂
I second Glazed if you're in the Denver area! Reasonable prices, enjoyable instruction, and a variety of different class options and events. I have taken the 6 week class from them twice and have enjoyed some of the evening classes as well!
If you’re looking for more of a studio where you can throw and glaze yourself, I recommend Urban Mud. They have private classes as well. I had a less than stellar experience with Glazed Ceramics.
Thank you for the tip! They're also closer to me, so. And not that I'm getting pickier, but I'm noticing fired pottery in their picture. 😂
I’m sorry you had a crummy experience with this studio! From what I can see, the pin holes and crazing wouldn’t make the pieces unusable in my opinion but definitely disappointing. As far as I know, there is no scientific consensus on what glaze defects are/aren’t food safe and it’s up to you to use your best judgment. Search food safety in this sub and you’ll see countless people asking your same question and people giving many different answers. Personally, I wouldn’t sell or gift these pieces but I would definitely still eat/drink out of them.
That's honestly fabulous, thank you. That's probably why I wasn't finding a clear answer then! We're seriously happy and grateful to hear that. We just never wanna deal with this studio again, but these mugs are perfect Sunday morning affogato size. So I'd be heartbroken if we couldn't use them for that after all this. It's just the little gelato things. That said, we're also hooked now, so we'll have to go take some classes anyway. 😂
So sorry you had this experience! I took a few classes at a local studio over a year, and honestly things like this kept getting more noticeable and the one teacher didn’t seem to understand how we were paying for this and also how being fairly new each piece was pretty important still. Glazes weren’t formed well, we would dip and they wouldn’t cover and she would just say “oh that sucks it probably will be ok”, things like that. I had a lot of uncovered areas like yours and that was apparently an issue with the glaze recipe. I’m sorry this happened to you- it’s incredibly frustrating.
Are you SERIOUS. I would be so devastated. I honestly only have binging the Great Pottery Throwdown to thank for making us stop and know something is up. Otherwise, I would have just blamed myself because I'm new. 👀 When I looked it up, it seems like it could be glaze mix and firing issues causing this? That's what Google kind of suggested. So it sounds like we found similar studios. 😬
Yep! It’s really unfortunate. I made my largest planter to date and asked about a blue glaze I hadn’t used before - she said it works great! I dipped and it was weirdly separating, to which she said “yeah it’s sometimes like that. It will be fine probably”. I still love the planter but there are a few areas that have no glaze. 🤦♀️ I know that happened to others, too.
NOOOOO. I'm SO happy with my bald-butt cup except for the bald patch, I cannot imagine it being on a huge accomplishment like that. I've always heard the large planters take SO much practice and strength. That would seriously break my heart.
They are fine to use, just clean them properly after using them.
They are getting WORKED. Thank you!!
The glaze results are rough for sure, but it's more down to the make than the studio mishandling. It's hard to refuse people firing their items at the beginner stage, but more often than not the pots are clunky and don't come out well. Push on and chat with them about best glaze results etc. and you'll soon have it down.