Clayman: Buff - Off-White Clays

Code	Buff-Off-White x 12.5kg	Sample	12.5kg	25kg	50kg	100kg	250kg	500kg	1000kg
1030	CLAYMAN SPECIAL BUFF	1.50	6.67	11.32	20.36	39.36	90.40	154.00	278.40
1035	WESSEX MIXTURE	1.50	8.36	14.16	25.72	46.32	103.00	180.00	340.00
1102	OXIDIZING ST THOMAS	1.50	10.29	17.26	30.12	51.44	124.80	198.40	330.40
1106	WHITE ST THOMAS	1.50	13.33	23.34	40.00	67.84	161.40	264.80	449.60
1109	FLECKED STONEWARE	1.50	13.93	22.48	40.08	76.24	182.40	288.40	480.80
1110	THROWER'S MIX	1.50	13.28	22.14	39.84	75.28	181.60	287.60	469.60
1114	CRAFT CRANK	1.50	14.74	24.90	42.72	73.20	178.00	282.80	473.60
1058	EARTHSTONE CRANK - ES50	1.50	11.91	21.44	42.88	76.24	176.20	314.40	572.00
1038	REALLY GOOD S/W	1.50	9.21	17.10	31.56	57.84	131.60	210.40	349.60
1080	TOASTED S/W	1.50	7.92	14.70	27.16	49.76	113.20	180.80	300.80
1052	FEENEY'S BUFF MIX	1.50	16.03	30.42	57.56	108.48	263.00	476.80	822.40

Code	Buff-Off-White x 10kg	Sample	10kg	20kg	50kg	100kg	250kg	500kg	1000kg
1054	NEW WORLD MIX/5B		NO LONGER AVAILABLE - SUPERCEDED BY1052 FEENEY'S BUFF
1057	OZ CRANK PLUS/RAKU		NO LONGER AVAILABLE

1030 - CLAYMAN SPECIAL BUFF

Maturing Range: 1110-1270°C (Cone 02-9)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

Good dual purpose earthenware and stoneware clay. Popular in schools for tolerance and smooth texture. Good as an inexpensive modelling clay. Not recommended for reduction firing or large fired pieces.

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1035 - WESSEX MIX

Maturing Range: 1180-1280°C (Cone 5-9)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

As 1032 with 10% of 40/90's grog. Good for throwing but especially good for handbuilding. Good resistance to cracking and warping. Can be oxidized and reduced. Very popular as a general purpose body in schools and adult education classes.

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1038 - REALLY GOOD STONEWARE

Maturing Range: 1120-1280°C (Cone 01-9)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

A buff to toasted brown firing body with a fine dust free grog addition. Good thermal shock resistance, therefore an excellent body for oven-to-tableware. Good in oxidizing and reduction atmospheres.

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1080 - TOASTED STONEWARE

Maturing Range: 1140-1250°C (Cone 1-8)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

A mixture of stoneware and red clay that results in a highly plastic medium textured body. Excellent for throwing and all handbuilding techniques this clay fires to a light digestive biscuit colour under oxidation. Not recommended for reduction.

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1102 - OXIDIZING ST THOMAS

Maturing Range: 1150-1280°C (Cone 2-9)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

Well known general purpose stoneware clay that can speckle under oxidising or slightly reducing conditions. Good resilience and tolerance. Throws and slabs well.

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1106 - WHITE ST THOMAS

Maturing Range: 1160-1300°C (Cone 3-10)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

Good for large dishes, it is also used by some potters as a raku body. Fires a grey colour in stoneware oxidation.

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1058 - EARTHSTONE CRANK - ES50

Firing Range: 1200-1300°C (Cone 5-10)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

A slip housed heavily grogged body.

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1114 - CRAFT CRANK

Maturing Range: 1170-1300°C (Cpne 4-10)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

For handbuilding large items or mixing with other clays to provide “tooth” . An open but plastic clay, refractory and nicely toasted colour (speckled orange-brown under reduction). Ball clay based with several specially graded grogs. Low shrinkage. Unfortunately this body cannot be guaranteed as it can suffer "lime popping" on occasions.

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1052 - FEENEYS BUFF

Firing Range: Up to 1300°C (Up to cone10)

Pack Size: 12.5kg

This clay has very good thermal shock properties for use as a premium raku body. It is highly plastic and strong - superb for handbuilding small to large pieces. Lastly it is medium textured which means it can be thrown with great success for small thin walled articles to large domestic ware. All things to all men? Try it, it maybe what you have been looking for!

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1054 - NEW WORLD MIX/5B - DISCONTINUED

Firing Range: Up to 1300°C (Up to cone 10)

Pack Size: 10kg

Unfortunately this clay is no longer available. Try 1052 Feeneys Buff , which has all the same properties, but may fire slightly darker at stoneware temperatures.

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1057 - OZ CRANK +/RAKU

Firing Range: 1000-1350°C (06-12)

Pack Size: 10kg

Oz Crank is a heavily grogged body which is ideal for sculptural and slab building. This body has incredible thermal shock resistance and is suited to raku, pit firings and high fired stoneware.

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This is an example of a range of "Fruit & Veg" tiles produced by Angela Evans. The tiles are made by pressing 1106 White St Thomas in plaster moulds. The tiles are bisque fired to 1060”C and glosts fired to 1070°C.

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Walkers Clay from Australia - 01.02.2009
As many of your will be aware we have not had some of our Australian imported clays available for an extended period. The reasons are detailed below. We are now pleased to advise that 1067 PB103 is now in stock, as is 1069 White Mid-fire, 1084 Superior Porcelain and 1086 Imperial Porcelain. Unfortunately as you will note from below 1054 New World/5B and 1040 White Haze Raku are no longer available. These have been replaced by 1052 Feeneys Buff as the equivalent for the 5B and 1044 White Raku as the replacement for the White Haze. Although we have plenty of the Feeneys, we have only received a limited stock of White Raku, until our next shipment.

Walker Ceramics was an old family run business in Australia, that has now been purchased by the originator’s son. Their premises in Melbourne were also owned by the family. Due to a legal hitch they had to vacate these premises before they could find an alternative site to set up the manufacturing of all their clay bodies. To resolve the problems this caused they have agreements that Bendigo Pottery, Australia’s oldest working pottery, now make all Walker white bodies under licence. All Walker buff bodies are made by Feeneys, which is another clay company also owned under the Walker canopy. To add to the problems they faced, a clay pit that produced Hallam fireclay closed. This fireclay was the base for many bodies such as New World Mix and White Haze Raku. Alternative to this fireclay had also to be sourced and tested. This has meant that some of the bodies now have replacements. 1040 White Haze Raku is replaced by 1040 White Raku and is packed in 12.5kg bags. Also 1054 New World is replaced by 1052 Feeneys Buff, which is also packed in 12.5kg bags. We are assured that both alternatives perform equally as well as the clays they have replaced. To quote Walkers they say in respect of Feeneys Buff and White Raku “It is formulated to have very similar characteristics to the 5B just with a different production method – Hammer milled instead of filter pressed. It will however (as with the White Raku) appear darker in the bags as the Queensland clays have a higher organic content. It fires to similar appearance from 1000 – 1300. It should still be able to throw easily up to large bulbous forms and raku easily as it contains refractory grogs. These refractory grogs will contain NO CEMENTS –as they are made from new firebricks bricks.

NOTE:

We have changed the quantity break for clays in 12.5kg bags from 10 bags (125kg) to 8 bags (100kg)