What Every Potter Should Know: Answers and Solutions to Common Pottery Problems

by Jeff Zamek

Book Overview

Now potters can rescue many spoiled pieces by learning solutions to some of the most common pottery problems. Author Jeff Zamek provides information in easy to grasp segments to guide readers through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873417216
• ISBN13: 9780873417211
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding problem prevention info

A wealth of solid advice on how to prevent (or solve) a wide variety of ceramics problems. Well-written and easy to read. A unique collection of topics, but well-organized, making it easy to find what you're looking for. Includes details about clays and glazes, buying materials, firing, safety, and even business considerations. The title is accurate: you really should know what's in this book, and much of it you won't find elsewhere.

Must have for beginners

I am a self taught potter. This is one of the first books I bought on the subject and I still find it very valuable. It gets to the point and addresses practical problems in clear and specific ways. The glaze recipes that are given work, however it helps to have a bit of knowledge first. (I didn't understand about the thermal expansion of lithium and one of the base glazes give is overloaded with it. It broke my clay body apart completely, not surprising from its chemistry. On the proper clay body it would have been fine.) The solutions to the problems work well. I am using, with good results, a clay body that uses advise from this book. It doesn't have every solution to problems, but I haven't seen any book that does. It is interesting and covers a wide range of important issues for the potter, issues that are often left out of other books. I highly recommend it for anybody who works in clay, specifically those who mix their own clay and glazes.

Beginner's Paradise

As a beginner in the world of pottery, I found this book to be useful in a language that is easy to follow and understand.