The Everything Page
We’ve built a lot of good stuff. Guides, tools, certifications, calculators, a searchable glaze wall, a book we call the Bible. Too much to keep finding by accident. So here it all is, sorted and two taps away.
Bookmark this page. It’s the only URL you’ll ever need to remember.
The tools that do your homework for you.
Built for members, free forever, no login, no nonsense. Start with the big one.
The Mega Glaze Tool
Every glaze and underglaze in the building, in one searchable, filterable list. Type a color and watch it find things. Filter to only what your level unlocks. See the sheen, the family, the up-charge, the test tile number, the studio favorites. Build a list, print it, walk the wall like you own it.
It knows things about our glaze wall that we forgot we knew.
Pottery Calculators
How big to throw it so it shrinks to the size you wanted. What the kiln will charge before it charges you. How many mugs live in a bag of clay. Tuned to every clay we stock.
Run the numbers
Glaze Combination Groups
The four Facebook groups where the best combos live, plus the one search trick that makes them ten times more useful. Steal recipes from a quarter million potters.
Find combos
Shelf Fit Calculator
Your shelf is full again. Four real fixes, plus a calculator that says exactly how many pieces fit at every level. Pottery Tetris, with math.
Fix your shelf
The Which-Level Quiz
Green, Yellow, Purple, or Black? Four questions, honest answers, and shelves drawn to actual scale. Let the quiz decide so you don’t have to.
Find your levelThe Announcement List
Kiln updates, schedule changes, workshop drops, the occasional very important nonsense. One list, no spam, unsubscribe whenever.
Join the list
The Myth-Busting Machine
Hiding inside our myths page: a cone temperature machine, a firing cost calculator, a food-safety checker, and a quiz. Tools disguised as reading.
Open the myths pageIt’s 11 p.m. and you have a question.
Good news: somebody already asked it. The FAQ page answers just about everything we’ve ever been asked about prices, hours, rules, firing, kids, refunds, and whether we really kick people out.
Earn your way into the good stuff.
Some equipment asks for a little of your life first. Watch the video, learn the rules, sign your name, get your card. Then it’s yours to use.
Dipping Glazes
The buckets. Gorgeous results, expensive to ruin, protected by rules. Get certified, then dunk with confidence.
Get certifiedSlab Rollers & Molds
150+ molds, from tiny trinkets to giant bowls. Some cost $600 to replace. The training is free, which is a much better deal.
Get certifiedBrush-On Glazes & Underglazes
Required before your first glaze day. The video, the rules, the signature. Your future mugs will thank you.
Get certifiedRaku Workshops
Open flame, hot tongs, big drama, unforgettable pots. Get safety certified before the next workshop lands on the calendar.
Get certifiedThe four things members actually buy.
Skip the menu digging. These are the four stops.
Flux Glazes
The optional movement-makers that make glazes melt, run, and get weird in the best way.
Shop fluxes
Helpful Pottery Items
The short list of gear that has to be yours: apron, wire, clippers, approved kiln stuff.
See the listEverything a membership comes with, explained.
New here or five years deep, these six cover the machinery: your first day, your level, your options, and the ten rules that keep this place kind.
The Welcome Booklet
Your first day, page by page. What to bring, where things live, how your first class actually goes. Read it before you walk in and you’ll feel like a regular by week two.
Open the booklet
Options for Couples
Two ways to do this together: one Shared Membership you split between you, or the Shared Shelf Pass, two full memberships sharing one shelf and saving 20%.
Compare both options
Upgrade Mid-Month
Outgrew your level three weeks before renewal? Pay the difference between your level and the one you want, and the new perks start the same day. No waiting for the 25th.
Upgrade your level
Membership, Fully Explained
Levels, prices, shelves, the dot system, pausing, canceling, and what actually happens after you tap Join. Written so a twelve-year-old could follow it. You are at least that smart.
Read the explainer
The Clay Hole Commandments
Ten rules in fake King James English, printed on the wall and enforced with love. Four are about the studio. Six are about each other. Basically, don’t be an A-hole at The Clay Hole.
Read the commandments
The Heroes Discount
Teachers, military, first responders, healthcare workers, students, seniors, nonprofit staff, foster parents. 10 to 15% off every single month, forever, no code to remember.
See if you qualifyThe book this whole studio swears by.
Every glaze we own, photographed after firing, with its test tile number and exactly where it lives on the shelves. No more guessing what a jar will do. No more glazing on faith.
The physical copy lives on the table by the mold room. The digital copy lives in your pocket. Between the Bible and the Mega Glaze Tool, your glaze days will never be the same.
The fundamentals, in the order clay meets them.
Five guides, start to finish. Read them in order and you’ll understand the whole journey from bag of mud to finished piece.
The Full Process of Pottery
From ball of mud to finished piece, all ten stages in one guide. Start here if you’re new.
The 5 Stages of Clay
Slip, plastic, leather-hard, bone dry, bisque. Almost everything is fixable until the kiln says otherwise.
How to Wedge Clay
Ram’s head, spiral, and stack-and-slam, all three fully explained. Better clay, better everything.
How to Dry Your Pottery
Slow and even wins. How to dry without cracks, warps, or heartbreak.
Glaze Brushing: Best Practices
Which brushes, how many coats, and the fixes for streaks. The method we teach every member, coat by coat.
For the ones who want to go deeper.
When the fundamentals stop being enough. Nerdier, longer, and worth every minute.
The Many Myths of Pottery
Air bubbles don’t explode pots, and cone 6 isn’t even a temperature. Seventy myths fact-checked against Orton, the FDA, OSHA, and actual published research. The nerdiest thing we’ve ever done.
Bust some myths
Using Dipping Glazes
The full dipping guide: prep, immersion times, drips, and every rule that keeps the buckets alive. Certification included when you’re ready.
Learn dipping
The Full Glaze System
The Art of Glazing: our whole system, every rule, every technique, and the certification that unlocks your first glaze day.
Master the system
Incredible Videos Worth Watching
Eight core skills, 24 free videos, 15 of the best potters on YouTube. None of them ours. We just did the digging so you don’t lose a Saturday to the algorithm.
Start watching
Understanding Celadon Glazes
Celadon shows everything. That’s the whole job. Where it makes carved work sing, where it will humiliate a smooth mug, and what to grab instead.
Read before you glazePages nobody asked for. You’re welcome.
Somewhere along the way we started writing guides that have no business existing. We regret nothing. People read these at 1 a.m. and show up to class two weeks later.
Pottery & the 16 Personalities
All sixteen types, honestly profiled: what you’ll love, what will drive you nuts. Find yours, then read your ex’s.
Find your type
Pottery & the 5 Love Languages
Whichever language you lead with, pottery serves the whole plate. Five deep dives and a two-minute quiz. Yes, we cited actual studies.
Take the quiz
Pottery by Zodiac Sign
What every sign does at a pottery wheel, what will test them, and what to buy them. There’s a birthday decoder. It knows about cusps.
Read your sign
The Clay Hole & Every Other Studio
How we stack up, feature by feature. Yes, we wrote the comparison ourselves. No, we didn’t cheat. Much.
See the comparisonWhatever the calendar says, there’s a project for it.
Kilns are slow. Start your holiday pieces before the holiday sneaks up on you. The badge shows what’s next.
Mother’s Day
Twenty gift ideas moms actually keep: love note dishes, herb strippers, garden markers, and more.
Make mom something
Halloween
Monster mugs, witch boots, jack-o-lantern bowls, haunted lanterns. The kiln loves spooky season.
Get spooky
Christmas & Holidays
Ornaments, gift pieces, and holiday projects worth the kiln wait. Start in October. Trust us.
Deck the shelvesClass photos & member show & tell.
Real nights, real people, real pieces out of the kiln. Eight at a time, pulled at random from hundreds. Deal yourself a new hand as many times as you like.
What’s happening this week.
The Studio Calendar
Classes, open studio, demos, workshops, and closures, all on one living calendar. Check it before you drive.
Open the calendar
The Weekly Class Schedule
The rhythm of a normal week: instructed class nights, open studio evenings, and weekend hours.
See the scheduleTake your turn.
A stranger’s Google review helped you find this place. Right now somebody is googling pottery studios at 11 p.m., wondering if they’d fit in here. You’re the stranger now.
Leave an honest review. Not a glowing one. An honest one. Warts and all.
Who is Dan Pearce?
Author, blogger, potter, single dad, and the guy who built this place. Dan spent years writing Single Dad Laughing for an audience of three million before trading most of his keyboard time for a pottery wheel and a very large glaze wall.
This studio is what happened next.
Whatever it is, just ask.
A question, a problem, an idea, a weird noise your pot made in the kiln. You are always welcome to reach out, any time, about anything. That’s not a policy. It’s just how this place works.
A real human answers. Usually one with clay somewhere on their person.