This was posted June 18:
The lawyer's letter had an additional demand: "Remove any documentation or data of DigitalFire from Plainsman’s premises" (this may differ from what Plainsman itself is saying, not sure why). This was confusing, as any data is digital, so I interpreted it to mean all of my physical materials in the lab from and by which the data at Digitalfire was partially built.
There were hundreds of projects in the pipeline producing data. Promising ones were DIY dipping glazes, base coat dipping glazes, an Alberta slip calcination pilot, casting Coffee clay (without raw manganese or umber), casting M390, M340 and even H440, a new 440-on-steroids, 200 mesh MNP PR3D work, the beer bottle demo casting, better and new engobes, DIY underglaze, an amazing iron red glaze, and so much more. I was learning the power of CAD, donating 3D printers. There were countless projects to help customers navigate the idiosyncratic clays. And for companies/people from around the world. The physical assets could have been the basis for a one-of-a-kind Digitalfire field school for DIY clay-gathering and testing. Luke Lindoe worked there. His books and the personal records, and those of past techs in the local ceramic industry are there. I knew every square inch, and resisting the demand to dismantle it two years ago got me fired the first time. It was the place I discovered smectite as a catalyst for translucency, Crystal Ice, 3D case molding, the amazing G2934 base matte (and gunmetal black), drop and hold firing, how to calculate Alberta slip, flow GLFL testing, SHAB test procedures, so many glaze chemistry success stories. Perhaps most important, records of testing and recent trips to Flintoft, the Blue Hills, Claybank and other sites having much better clay than the current mine (no lab has ever documented these amazing clays like I did).
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