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I'll bet you can scrape most of the mirror coating off with a razor blade pretty easily. You can get razor sharp scrapers that are 4" across.
It'd be a whole lot quieter that way

kind of telling that you can't find any positive testimony on denver kilns I remember using a couple of Denver front loading Annealers in school settings, they must have been made in the late seventies. The original controls were funnily made, pre-electronic devices. The Denver 40 pound electric pot...

the way to load up the shelf and get square edges is to use a stainless steel dam. I get fairly thin stainless, like 22 gage, in a 1.5" wide strip, then coil it in a round shape, then hold the ends together by overlapping them and making little clips out of the same metal. Kiln wash it and fire...

I ordered a few pieces of oceanside 96 for a class I'm putting on, and was amazed at the poor quality of the glass. In the clear, there were multiple stones, some of which caused cracks. All of the glass had bubbles here and there, some of them big enough to blister. I had thought I could switch to ...

I've never happily used anything but digitry controllers, so it's hard to say whether they're as easy as I think. I simply visualize the time I want a process to take, and apply that to the program. If I'm following someone's instructions and they call for degrees per hour, It's hardly difficult to ...

I like the one thay have at the local hardware/rental store. Of course, it helps that they let me use it for free :wink: I only mention this because it may help you to build up a bunch of stuff, then rent a tile saw to see how you like it. You'd get to become intimately familiar with one saw, and pe...

I go to the local ceramics supply house and get a pound of "gum solution", which is basically CMC. Then I get a pint of alcohol and a gallon of distilled water. I get more than a gallon of the tacky stuff for less than ten bucks. I use it sparingly when it may show, like on dark colors, bu...