Mid Fire

A medium smooth white stoneware. This is a cone 5 variation of our popular Hopkin�s White Stoneware.

A pliable clay with smooth grog and color from manganese and iron. Fires almost black when reduced and dark brown/black in oxidation.

B-Mix 5 offers the same characteristics enjoyed by our Cone 10 B-Mix. Its smooth, porcelain texture is a pleasure to throw and form, and it fires to a cream color in oxidation.

A very fine grog makes for a more forgiving body with a slight texture and minimal speckling.

A medium coarse clay body. Fires a warm buff in oxidation and a beautiful medium brown in reduction.

This is a good, general purpose clay that works well for all forming methods. Specks generally bleed into glazes. 60 mesh sand gives a medium texture. Fire at Cone 5, the oxidation color is gray/buff and the reduction color is gray/brown.

The Coarsest � The Finest. This is the ultimate sculpture body for cone 5. Rich rust brown in oxidation.

This Cone 5 white stoneware body is excellent for medium pieces as well as dinnerware. The addition of fine sand gives a great deal of strength to this plastic body. Fires off-white in oxidation and gray in reduction.

This clay was designed specifically to achieve a rich brown color when fired in an electric kiln. It has good strength for both wheel throwing and handbuilding. Contains 60 mesh sand so the texture is slightly coarse. We do not recommend that Electric Brown be fired in reduction.

An exceptionally white and translucent throwing porcelain for Cone 5-6.

The Cone 5 answer to Laguna's well-liked Cone 10 Half & Half. By combining equal amounts of white stoneware and porcelain, Half and Half is a very throwable white body that is off-white in oxidation and a light gray/white in reduction.

A red, slightly coarse clay with excellent working properties for wheel throwing and handbuilding. It is talc-free and contains sand, making it suitable for medium sized forms. Cone 5 oxidation produces red/brown and reduction color is dark red/brown.

A true Cone 6 domestic porcelain of superior quality. Fires bright white and throws better than any mid fire porcelain we know of. Pounding this clay or wedging it prior to throwing definitely brings out its softness and higher plasticity

A Long Beach type body with 60 mesh sand and color provided by manganese dioxide. Fires gray/brown when reduced and light gray when oxidized.

A long time favorite casting slip, Moroccan Sand is now available in a similar Cone 5 pugged body. Light beige fired in oxidation, the body is quite vitreous, ideal for throwing functional ware, and is complimented by a full palette of Laguna lead free glazes.

Aardvarks best cone 5 porcelain. Very white with great throwing qualities.

Very Black, Ebony like finish. Satin smooth-striking in appearance. Super slow bisque fire is needed to eliminate bloating at cone 5 and 6 Rate, Temp, Hold 60, 180, Until completely dry. 200, 600, 0 240, 1300, 0 60, 1650, 0 360, 1850, 0 108, 1922, 0

Smooth, very good throwing, vitreous Cone 3 to 5 porcelain. Excellent results with gas or electric firing. Gray to off-white in oxidation.

The clay body is a rich red version of our Calico clay. Fires brick red in oxidation and red/brown in reduction.

Navajo Wheel 412 is an outstanding throwing body, especially formulated for the studio potter as well as the production potter. Navajo Wheel 412 contains a 35 mesh grog that lends good structural strength enabling the potter to throw tall forms and still retain smoothness while throwing. A rich red tile color at cone 5 or 6 and a dark brown can be acquired with a moderate reduction at cone 5.

This is a fluxed up version of our Navajo Wheel Clay making it vitreous at mid range temperatures. Fires slightly darker than Navajo Wheel regular but has the same great throwing characteristics.

Navajo Wheel is a blend of IMCO clays selected to produce a smooth textured plastic red clay. Navajo Wheel is an excellent wheel and hand building clay where a deep red tile color is desired. An excellent clay for school. This clay is made of local clays, having traveled an average of 35 miles from pit to our pug mill. This clay was originally designed as a cone 6 body but as the clay has changed in the pits Navajo Wheel now vitrifies at cone 8 (this change occurred around 2015)

Semi-smooth red body with sand and grog. Fires paver tile red in oxidation and chocolate in reduction.

Buff Red Body � Quite Smooth. Great Throwing Clay.

Clay body specifically formulated by request from Midwest and Eastern U.S. potters. Low in sand and grog content, special buff is smooth textured. An excellent throwing body. The color palette is perhaps best described as 'desert' or 'Southwest'. Fired in oxidation, Special Buff falls into the tan/brown color range.

Clay body specifically formulated by request from Midwest and Eastern U.S. potters. Low in sand and grog content, speckled buff is smooth textured. An excellent throwing body. The color palette is perhaps best described as 'desert' or 'Southwest'. Fired in oxidation, Speckled Buff falls into the tan/brown color range.

Stoneware 1-C fires to a sandstone color in oxidation and a brown in reduction. Stoneware 1-C contains a fine silica sand to make an excellent smooth textured wheel clay which will produce vitreous stoneware pottery within the temperature range of an electric kiln. Stoneware 1C will give the appearance of a cone 10 reduction clay body when fired to cone 5 in oxidation.

Venus is a highly plastic smooth midrange white stoneware with EXTRA FINE grog so smooth you can't even feel it.Superb for wheel thrown functional ware. Also great for slab built small & medium size work. Fires bone white, with great density & strength.