Cob: First day of cobbing!!!

[David Knowlton]

cool! keep us posted

david in tampa


>From: "Kim West" <kwest at arkansas.net>
>Reply-To: "Kim West" <kwest at arkansas.net>
>To: "Cob List" <coblist at deatech.com>
>Subject: Cob: First day of cobbing!!!
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:09:23 -0500
>
>BlankWe started cobbing late this morning. Yay! The first load went like we 
>had been doing it for years, like we were pros. It took hardly any time and 
>viola! we had a perfect mix ready to go on the walls. The second gave us 
>fits though. It would not hold in a loaf for anything. The books said it 
>needed more water or clay but I could not accept that so we kept mixing to 
>see what would happen. Guess what? Nothing new happened. Finally I stopped 
>arguing with the books and added some water. It helped some but not enough. 
>Finally [!] I soaked more clay and added it. It helped some more but not 
>enough to make it hold like the first batch. Then I put some very hard, red 
>clay to soaking in a bucket to add to the mix also and we came in to take a 
>break. Whew! We worked 4 times longer on that second one and it still is 
>not quite right. Be glad when we get it down to an art. Haha! I think that 
>what happened was that I somehow got hold of some clay with too high of a 
>sand content and did not compensate for it when adding the sharp sand.
>
>My advice? Never argue with the experts' books! [duh]

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