Printed and bound at the studio
Take the Glaze Bible home239 pages, full color, spiral bound, made by hand
Every glaze and underglaze on our wall, printed in full color, with a QR code on each one that opens its page online. We keep copies at the studio for anyone to use while they work, free. This is the one you get to write in.
- Pick up at the studio
- Up to a week if we are out
- Nothing ships
There are copies at the studio, and they are free
They live on the test tile pot table and they are not going anywhere. Anyone can pick one up mid-glaze, check a tile against the real thing, and put it back. You never have to buy anything to use the Glaze Bible here.
The PDF is free too. Download it, print it at home, punch it, put it in a binder. Or read it in the browser and skip the paper entirely.
What you cannot do with a studio copy is take it home, write in it, or leave a sticky note on page 114 that says try this one on the speckled buff. Those copies have to stay clean and they have to stay here, because the next person needs them.
That is the whole difference. If it is not worth $100 to you, use ours. We mean that.
Two hundred and thirty nine pages
Every maker on the wall gets its own run of pages. AMACO, Coyote, Mayco, Spectrum, Speedball, The Ceramic Shop and our own dipping glazes. Then the shelves that cut across the makers: the metallics, the four fluxes, the raku glazes and the low-fire shelf. The underglazes close the book, Amaco Velvet and Speedball, taking the last thirty nine pages between them.
Every glaze carries its fired test tile, the family it belongs to, and a QR code. Point a phone at the code and that glaze's page in the online Glaze Bible opens, so the book is never the end of the trail.
- 239pages, every one in full color
- 54sections you can flip straight to
- 32 lbbright white paper, pigment ink
- QRon every glaze and underglaze
What you can do with one that is yours
Write on it
Circle the ones that worked. Cross out the one that came out nothing like its tile. Put the date and the clay body next to it. Six months of that and the book is worth more than what you paid, because half of it is yours.
Leave the sticky notes in
Tab the families you keep going back to. Flag a combination you want to try next month. Nobody tidies them out overnight, and they are still there when you open it again.
Plan somewhere other than the glaze wall
On the couch, in bed, at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. Choosing glazes is the slow part, and it does not have to happen standing at the wall with a bisqued pot waiting on you.
It needs nothing to work
No battery, no signal, no app, no page that will not load. It opens flat where you left it, which is what the spiral binding is for.
One-sided or two-sided
Same 239 pages either way. The difference is how many sheets of paper they land on, which decides how thick the book is and whether there is anywhere to write.
One-sided, twice as thick
Every page gets a sheet to itself, so the back of each one is blank. That is where notes go. It is also a considerably thicker book, which some people love and some people find unwieldy.
Two-sided, half as thick
Two pages to a sheet. Easier to hold, easier to carry, $20 less, and no blank backs. If you were never going to write in it, this is the one.
Plastic tabs are $20 more and only go on the one-sided copy.
These are not cheap, and we are not going to pretend otherwise
Two hundred and thirty nine pages of full color on 32 lb bright white paper, printed with pigment ink, a clear cover on the front and a thick black one on the back. Then somebody on our team sits down and binds it. That is most of an afternoon of one person's time, per copy, and the paper and ink are not the cheap kind.
We are not trying to be in the printing business. That is why the PDF is free and why there are copies on the test tile pot table for anyone to use. Nobody has to buy one of these.
If you want one of your own, made properly, we are glad to make it. This is honestly what that costs.
Take ten percent off both
The Mold Room is the other one. Fifty two pages covering every slab mold we own, built the same way: full color, spiral bound, a QR code on every slab mold.
Put both in the cart at the same time and this code takes ten percent off the pair.
Enter it at checkout. The cart will remind you.
52 pages, every slab mold we own, printed and bound the same way.
See it →How you get it
- We try to keep a few on the shelf. If we are out when you order, give us up to a week to print and bind a new one.
- Pick it up during a class time: the Monday daytime class, 10:30 AM to 2 PM, or any evening class Monday through Thursday, 6:30 PM to 10 PM.
- Open studio is not a pickup time. Friday evenings and weekend mornings will not work.
- Nothing ships. Everything from this store is picked up at the studio.
Not sure whether we have one on the shelf right now, text the studio at 385-241-5528.
Questions people ask
Do I have to be a member to buy one?
No. The book is built around this studio, so it is most useful to people who work here, but nothing stops anyone from buying a copy.
Can I just print my own?
Yes, and plenty of people do. The PDF is free and always will be. A home printer on regular paper will not look like this one, but it will tell you everything this one tells you.
How is this different from the copies at the studio?
The pages are the same. The difference is that this one goes home with you, and you can write all over it.
What happens when the glaze wall changes?
It will. Glazes get added and shelves get rearranged. The QR codes point at the online Glaze Bible, which is kept current, so even a page that has moved on gets you to the right place.
Can I add the plastic tabs to a two-sided copy?
No. Tabs are only available on the one-sided printing.
Can you ship it to me?
No. Nothing from this store ships, this included.
Ours stay here. This one does not.
Use the studio copies for free for as long as you like. When you want one you can mark up, tab, and read on the couch on a Sunday, it is $120 and it takes us up to a week if we are out.