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He immerses a jug in tub
full of glaze.
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down on top of that.... The way you
adjust the weight of diat rock is you lift
this up just a litde or, or let it down,
whichever way it needs to go. There's a
hole down through die middle of diat
top stone to let that stuff go down
dirough it and get under that rock. Of
course this is all done by hand. Sometimes
a person don't want to do things
and this is one of diem.
Well, pottery like this, the way it's done,
old way, it's not a thing in the world but
just man-killing work from start to
finish.
The best glazes goes on the churns. The
churns are used for processing food, and
if you've got an inferior glaze on it and
start pickling the beef in the churn, and
your vinegar starts to dripping out, it
ain't long, you've got a rotten can of
beef. Best we ever use is diat ash glaze.
When you put it on a churn and fire it,
it'll move just a litde when it's melted.
It'll run on the churn. But die commercial
glaze, it just melts and that's it. It
don't even move.
FIRING THE WARE
Lanier starts fire in kiln. At one time, they used to be nine pott'ry
shops here in White County. And all of
diem was in operation. And diey sold
everything they could make. Used to
put up a lot of beans, see, to pickle 'em,
and kraut, and milk, vegetables, all
kinds, they had to put in diis pott'ry
ware, because they wasn't much of
nodiing else to put anything in, you
know. Sold all the pott'ry diey could
make.