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This is the rough layout.
Right by the back door is the wheel area.
Important features include:
Stereo for sanity/insanity
Jars of slips, colorants.
Tool shelves.
Shelf to set bats on and boards of pots.
30 year old Shimpo RK-2
Besides the ability to walk through the shop without
tripping over something, the 30 % more shelves
(8 feet wide by 6 feet high by 4 feet deep)
was the motivating factor for going into an enlarged
space.
Although the real bottleneck in pottery production is
sales,
the easiest bottleneck to do something about is having
more shelf space...
On the right side are all the glaze buckets, and buckets
of glaze materials.
I mostly use about 6 glazes, but I like to have
a second bucket of each so I can
keep the buckets fairly full.
As a negative, the enlarged space is twice as large,
so will cost more to heat.
I'm also hoping I won't bump into things so much when
moving boards of pots...
This shows the bi-level wedging table with boxes of clay
to the left of it.
The cabinet at upper left holds the small glaze ingredients
that mostly
gather dust...
The area where the ladder is will also store clay--
I'm hoping I can keep a ton along that wall...
The glazing area should accommodate two 4 foot wareboards
of pots.
Lately I've been glazing them two boards at a time, in
an L shape, for efficiency,
since some decorations require dipping in a couple different
colors.
The kiln room with two electric kilns stands just off
the glazing area.
After the pots are fired, they are brought forward to
the sales area,
or can be stored or shipped from the old pottery workshop,
which is now the shipping room...
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