SC - interesting URL - food shopping!

[Ron Rispoli]

Doesn't clay shrink as it dries and shrink even more when fired with the
percentage varing by the type of clay used?
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From: margali <margali at 99main.com>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: SC - interesting URL - food shopping!


>I know how I would go about doing it, I would take a clear glass tumbler,
and
>measure into it the various amounts and mark the level of each. Then I
would go
>back to the glassmaker, preferrably the one I had bought the glass tumbler
from,
>just to make it esy...and then comission him to make a glass tumbler just
the
>same with the markings inherent...or as I have a kiln and an ability to use
>molds I would take as an example my miniature ginger jar mold [it is
supposed to
>be for a salt/pepper shaker, the hole is in the bottom but I can work
around
>that] and make one and fire it. I would then fill it with the first
measurement,
>and mark it. Knowing where the first measurement is, I could make a new one
and
>silmply cut it off just at or above the right measurement. Do this to
another
>until you have a graduated set, or just a pair of 1 ratl and 1 uqiya
measures...
>
>margali
>now i have incentive to go and get rob to hook up the kiln!
>
>>     I tried to pay a glassmaker, a pottery maker, and a metalworker to
make
>> one of these for me... All stared and refused... Ah well.  If you
succeed,
>> please tell me how to do it... I would sincerely love to have one.
>>
>>     Khadijah bint Mika'il al-Zarqiyya'
>
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