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8-11 Buff 35 is a premium wheel clay formulated with IMCO ball and kaolin clays plus a select 35 mesh grog. 8-11 Buff 35 has excellent plasticity and green strength. Very good drying characteristics and maximum resistance to thermal shock helps insure a higher than average recovery of finished pieces. Fires to a light grey cream in oxidation and a deeper speckled grey buff in reduction.

8-11 Red 35 is a companion product of 8-11 Buff 35, but contains clays with higher natural iron content to produce deeper reduction firing tones. 8-11 Red 35 is made with a select refractory 35 mesh grog giving a versatile body with great strength. This is a premium wheel clay designed to meet the needs of both the student potter and studio production work. 8-11 Red 35 fires to a buff grey in oxidation and to a toasted red in reduction. ...

An outstanding, all-purpose, orange/brown, moist body. Has fine sand and is a difficult body to crack during firing. Durable and affordable. Good for professional or student. Reduces a warm orange/brown, lighter in oxidation.

A premier, cream-white, throwing clay that is easy to throw and form. Excellent glaze results. Fires gray/white in reduction and lighter in oxidation. Smooth porcelain texture.

A premier, cream-white, throwing clay that is easy to throw and form. Excellent glaze results. Fires gray/white in reduction and lighter in oxidation. Smooth porcelain texture.

The substitution of a very fine grog for the sand in B-Mix with Sand provides a smoother fired texture and less speckling.

The addition of 10% fine feldspathic sand allows for a body with some texture. Fires gray/white when reduced and off-white when oxidized, some speckling may occur.

A specially formulated version of Laguna's popular B-mix body for wood and salt firing. Takes Salt and Soda well and exhibits very nice flashing characteristics in wood firings. Holds up well in Cone 12 atmospheric firings.

A gray/white clay with large throwing properties. 60 mesh sand and 30 to 60 mesh grog allow for strength. Fires gray in reduction and light buff/white in oxidation. Also excellent for Raku.

A deep Brown/Black clay, medium in texture. Great for the wheel.

Black Mountain modified with more tooth

A superb all-around clay body. This long-standing recipe is renown for it throwing characteristics for large or small work. Bravo Buff is a unique, premium body with a warm, light-buff to gray color with no iron spots, even in reduction. It can be thrown quite thin and is also excellent for tall pieces. One of our most popular clays with professionals for its tall throwing and sculpting properties. ...

A rich brown-black clay. Smooth. Excellent throwing qualities.

A high-iron throwing clay with excellent plasticity and thermal shock characteristics making it especially suitable for functional ware. It has light grog and a fine sand to provide strength with a reasonably smooth finish. In oxidation, it is a warm orange buff hue. This darkens in reduction to an orange-chocolate brown while maintaining its warmth. Good for raku as well!

A true grolleg body developed by Tom Coleman. Excellent fit with most glazes. Vary translucent when thin. Great for large pieces. Probably the best domestically produced porcelain you will find.

This white stoneware body is a good choice for small to medium work. It has exceptional strength and plasticity. Danish White fires off-white in oxidation and grayish in reduction. It has a smooth texture.

This white stoneware body is a good choice for small to medium work. It has exceptional strength and plasticity. Danish White fires off-white in oxidation and grayish in reduction. Sand added.

A medium coarse, dark clay with 60 mesh sand. Turns deep brown in reduction and brown in oxidation. Good for various forming techniques.

An outstanding throwing body. Ideal for thin walls and larger pieces, and excellent for slab use and when a vitreous clay is desirable. Light gray in reduction, off-white in oxidation.

A medium-coarse textured, reddish clay. It is similar to Rod's Bod in throwing qualities, but fires to a darker brown color and has the same iron speckling. Death Valley Red is a good clay for small to medium pottery.

A grolleg porcelain body with excellent throwing properties. Very translucent with minimal warpage.

A grolleg porcelain body with excellent throwing properties. Very translucent with minimal warpage.

A rich brown, smooth throwing body.

A unique porcelain throwing body with translucency comparable to much more expensive bodies that use imported Grolleg. Through the use of several domestic kaolins, this porcelain not only exhibits great whiteness and translucency, it also has plasticity and throwability rarely found in a porcelain body without the undesirably high shrinkage. Great Price for a high quality porcelain. Glacia is very popular clay with professionals. ...

GROGZILLA is an extremely heavy duty buff sculpture body with hellmer kaolin, 4 types of grog, heavy sand, and feldspar inclusions make this the most textural and interesting clay body for large scale sculpture available for potters today. Best suited for cone 10 and beyond. Exceptionally well suited for wood firing, soda firing, salt firing! Can be wheel throw if you have experience in extremely groggy clay. ...

This white stoneware body is a good choice for small to medium work. It has exceptional strength and plasticity. Danish White fires off-white in oxidation and grayish in reduction. It has a smooth texture.

One of our customers came up with this blend which combines the best qualities of California and Missouri fireclays. Excellent throwing stoneware. A very plastic body which is orange-brown with slight speckling in reduction.

Another old standard. Ken�s original porcelain formula.

One of our most popular clays, Long Beach Blend is an excellent, very fluid throwing clay which is also extremely popular for throwing open forms�small to large. It is brownish-pink in its raw form, light brown reduced and buff in oxidation. The formula includes iron and 60 mesh sand.

Same as Long Beach clay, minus the iron colorant. Fires buff to off-white.

Beautiful warm brown clay with medium texture. A long time favorite.

Made primarily of English Grolleg. Contains plasticizers to make this the finest translucent porcelain available for throwing, thin slab work and hand building. Excellent white color. Has become the standard in the Northeast U.S.

Superior porcelain body. Has many of the attributes of an English grolleg body while avoiding the expense of imported clays.

A light colored (off white at low fire, and a warm yellow tan at cone 10), and strong clay body. It contains 25 percent fine to medium grog and sand (almost twice normal stoneware) - enough for extra strength yet fine enough for throwing. This clay is excellent for throwing large pieces as well as for sculpture, raku and other situations demanding extra strength. It's lighter stoneware color and amazing handling makes it an ideal school ...

Ivory is IMCO's sculpture clay body with paper fiber added to produce a light weight clay with incredible green strength. Ivory P�Clay allows the sculptor to attach dry to dry, wet to dry, and even wet to bisque. In some instances, the green strength of the piece is so high, it does not need to be fired. Ivory P�Clay fires to a cream color in oxidation and a tan color in reduction. Recommended for sculpting and hand building. ...

Low expansion, semi-coarse high temperature body for refractory use. Best refractory quality when fired at Cone 13.

A light to medium tan clay with distinctive speckling.

Gray in the raw form with a medium sand texture. A popular body for general purpose use. Large and thick-walled pieces are prone to cracking. In light to medium reduction, Rod's Bod fires to a warm brown with iron specks which generally bleed into glazes forming brown specks.

A unique smooth white clay blend high in plastic ball clays. It is a smooth, very plastic, porcelain-type body successfully used for both small and medium-large functional wheel thrown ware.

Sculptural Brown. A very coarse sculpting body. Excellent for large and super-large forms.

Sculpture 412 has the same rugged qualities as regular Sculpture Mix. A finer 35 mesh grog has been substituted for the coarse 20 mesh grog giving the clay a smoother texture with easy handling and throwing qualities. Sculpture 412 is a truly fine, all purpose sculpting and throwing clay. Considered by many studio potters to be the best raku clay body available today. Sculpture 412 fires to a soft buff color in oxidation and a toast tan in reduction. ...