Cob: First day of cobbing!!!

Wed Aug 13 20:50:39 CDT 2003

Kim,
  thanks for sharing your experience with us.   Are you taking any 
pictures for us?  

Well carry on and good luck to you.

Darel

Kim West wrote:

> We 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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Kim,<br>
  thanks for sharing your experience with us.   Are you taking any
pictures for us?   <br>
<br>
Well carry on and good luck to you.<br>
<br>
Darel<br>
<br>
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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.</div>
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