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TRU-FYRE CERAMIC PRODUCTS CO. 5894 Blackwelder St., Culver City, Calif. 90230 DEALERSHIPS AVAILABLE 4 Ceramics Monthly M O N T H L Y Volume 18, Number 4 April 1970 Letters to the Editor ................................. 6 Suggestions from Our Readers ...................... 8 Itinerary .......................................... 9 Answers to Questions .............................. 10 Metal Inlays in Enameling by Fred Ball ........... 14 Goblets by Mayer Shaeter ........................... 17 Wind Chimes by Sally and 5ohn Gallaway ............ 20 Show Time: Ceramics by Geff Reed ................. 23 A Carved Clay Compartment with Hinged Doors by Robert F. Eilenberger ........................ 24 Summer Workshops ................................ 28 CeramActivities ................................ 32 Pacemaker for the metal enameling industry for over 70 years, Thompson now gives greater scope to the artist's Index to Advertisers .................................. 38 original creations. See for yourself in the new FREE On Our Cover Thompson catalog and Color Guide, featuring: A detail of an enameled plate • 233 new ways with color enchantment by Fred Ball shows the craters and blisters that result from the use of copper foil for in- • New line of pre-formed shapes in 18 gauge cappe, lay. Mr. Ball's experiments with inlays of thick metal foil • Steel tiles have resulted in dramatic con- temporary effects with the ancient materials of enamel- • Complete line of tools, findings, working materials ing. His article, "Metal Inlays in Enameling," starts on page • New model kilns 14 of this issue. Your Thompson Catalog and Color Guide is mailed within 24 hours after receipt of the coupon . .. and Editor: THOMAS SELLERS to you Art Director: ROBERT L. CREAOER so will most of your material orders. Get up to date with Business Manager: SPENCER L. DAvzs Thompson TODAY! 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A'pril 1970 5 LETTERS Share your thoughts with other CM read- Institute and some of these have holes this for almost two years now. As you ers--be they quip, query, comment or ad- near the arms or in the shoulder area probably know, your back issue service vice. All letters must be signed, but names which line up across from each other. doesn't have this particular one available. will be withheld on request. Address: The Perhaps these were used for inserting a Now, there are many more very choice Editor, Ceramics Monthly, Box 4548, Co- small rod for balancing the piece while articles in back issues that I wish you lumbus, Ohio 43212. lifting the weight from below. It even would present again, and I hope you will sounds Japanese! Nowhere in reading consider doing this. Thanks for giving us HANIWA THEORY about Haniwa do I find any information this good one in January Ann Gale Reading the June, 1968 Portfolio on on this. Is it possible? David Laughlin Ann Arbor, Mich. "Haniwa" brought to mind something that Niles, Ill. happened earlier this year. The author o[ the Haniwa port[olio WHAT HAPPENED? Moving a large, heavy, but fragile sculp- suggested that the circular holes probably I have just finished looking through the ture from the studio to my Soldner-type were cut in the clay to lessen the danger October issue for about the fifth time, kiln created problems in carrying the piece of ]ire cracks.