There has been a lot of construction in my neighborhood and mountains of clay have been sitting on a property nearby after they dug a huge hole for a foundation. Well I had to check it out. I got a bucket of it, soaked it, mixed it, strained out a few pebbles and roots, and let it sit on heavy cotton cloth [actually old blue jeans] in a bucket, to wick out the water. The first batch resulted in a very stiff, unplastic but clay-like substance. So in the next round, I added one to one amount of Laguna B-mix with grog slip to the Draper clay slip to make it more plastic and workable on the wheel. The next post will be my test results.
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