Feeney's Buff Raku Trachyte

Buff Raku Trachyte is the CLASSIC FEENEYS Clay. It is a hardy, coarse clay ideally suited for the hand building of large work, slab building and sculpting. It has beautiful strength, plasticity, workability and forgivability for all methods of hand building. It can even be thrown but is very groggy. 
Fires to a dark speckled mottle at stoneware and under reduction gives dark brown mottle with beautiful iron/trachyte blebs. At earthernware it is a light orange terra cotta colour.

Firing range: 1000-1280°C
Texture: Coarse
% Shrinkage wet to dry: 3.8
% Shrinkage wet to fired:5.8@1080°C 7.6@1280 °C
Vitreous Temperature: >1320 �?°C Orton Cone 11
Fired colour (oxidation): Dark speckled mottle
Fired colour (reduction): Dark brown mottles with iron blebs