Our customers frequently tell us...
"Axner Clay is the best I have ever used!"
Here are the reasons why...
Axner Clay Formulations
Axner Premium Clays are formulated to work well for both the potter and the end user. The potter will find that our wide range of bodies handle well and form easily. They are made from high quality ingredients that come from mines that provide consistency. Our formulations have been well tested for many years by thousands and thousands of potters. The end user will find the wares made with Axner Premium Clay to be durable and resistant to rigors such as having a casserole go from the refrigerator to the oven. Visually, Axner Premium Clays come in a stunning range of colors and textures. Our clays have been tested in many ways, such as with a dilatometer, to assure that they will not be subject to the many faults that plague poorly formulated clay bodies. And we continually retest our clays, over and over again to assure that you will always have the very best quality.
WE TEST EVERY BATCH!
A sample of every batch of clay that comes out of our mixer goes to our testing lab, from which test bars are made. The bars are stamped and fired. We measure the shrinkage of the test bars. We boil the tests bars and weigh them prior and after in order to measure the water absorption. And we visually inspect the test bars. And then we send the results off to our clay consultant for further review. In this way, we assure that every batch of clay is of the same consistent quality as it always has been. Any batch that does not yield good test results gets trashed!
Our Commitment to You
Our goal is to offer you the best performing, highest quality, and most consistent clay that you will be able to find anywhere. The procedures and people that we have put in place makes this goal highly achievable and we are ready to prove it to you.
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 (EM-700 - WC-909)
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 (WC-401 - WC-909)
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 (WC-379 - WC-918)
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 (EM-750 - WC-953)
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 Real Colored Clays
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 Mixing Custom Formulations
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 Liquid Slips for Casting
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 The ultimate in red majolica, EM-708 uses fine grog making it great for throwing and handbuilding. Perfect for majolica and all glazes up to cone 03.
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Great for large works and tiles. It has a warm beige colored tone when fired. It has a relatively low shrinkage. It is grainy to the touch, but smooths nicely.
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This body is very white and throws well. Contains Kyanite.
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Extremely well throwing raku body. It fires to a light buff color at cone 5 oxidation and lighter at cone 05 (raku). It's a dense, plastic body designed primarily for raku work. It contains 20% of a medium grog.
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Fires gray-stony white in reduction at cone 10, off white at cone 8 oxidation, and bright white at cone 05 (raku). A rough textured, low shrinkage body designed for large-scale handbuilding and tiles.
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Our original low white smooth all-purpose body with the addition of fine wood fiber which makes it best suited for handbuilding. Provides good workability and drying.
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This is the whitest of our mid-range stonewares. It handles well for both throwing and hand-building. It has been reported to be a good body in soda glaze firings.
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This is a similar clay to Trevor’s Smooth Stoneware (a former cone 9 - 10 stoneware Axner clay) but it has been fluxed for use at cone 5. A good compromise between porcelain and stoneware.
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Fires warm off-white at cone 6 oxidation and is an all-purpose body for throwing and handbuilding. It has a non-sticky texture with some tooth from the addition of 5% of 35 mesh grog.
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Granular Manganese is added to this body to give it a speckled look. Speckles sometimes burn through glaze thus giving a reduction-like appearance even when fired in an electric kiln.
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This body fires light brown at cone 5 oxidation and is an all-purpose body for throwing and handbuilding. it is very responsive, plastic and has a slightly greasy feel. Contains 5% of 35 mesh grog.
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Granular Manganese is added to this body to give it a speckled look. Speckles sometimes burn through glaze thus giving a reduction-like appearance even when fired in an electric kiln.
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Tom Sawyer loves the way EM-711 throws but wanted a rich stoneware color for his cone 5 electric kiln. It was suggested to wedge together 50% WC-906 and 50% EM-711. He did and this body is the result.
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This clay body is remarkably resistant to cracks and warps. It's highly groged and beautiful in color (it almost looks like a reduced stoneware when fired at cone 5 in an electric kiln). Does well at cone 5 and can possibly go higher.
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This white stoneware is a mix between porcelain and stoneware clay. Looks and throws very nicely.
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Fires cool white with medium translucency in reduction at cone 10. Originally designed by Harlan House, it is a classic, high kaolin/low ball clay, porcelain for throwing and handbuilding. It is particularly easy to trim and dry.
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This clay body was developed by and is extensively used by the internationally known, local potter, Stephen Jepson. Light gray in color, it throws extremely well. Stephen claims it to be the best clay he has ever used.
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This body has been designed for the professional production potter. It fires to a buff color in oxidation and a warm brown in reduction. It contains 5% of 35 mesh grog.
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This blend is 80% WC-918 and 20% WC-917. It maintains the incredible throwing properties of WC-918 but the the addition of WC-917 gives it a richer buff color.
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This Axner blend is very similar to another stoneware clay which has been popular locally. This toasty brown clay throws very well.
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If your pottery experience goes back to the 1960's and 70's you will probably like this clay. Its reddish color is reminiscent of clay bodies that were used in that era, but whose sources of ingredients have since run out.
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Fires stony gray in reduction and light beige in oxidation at cone 10. It has 5% of 35 mesh grog and a small amount of fireclay for texture. Sandstone is an all purpose throwing and handbuilding body. Throws extremely well.
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Fires warm off-white at cone 5 oxidation and is an all-purpose body for handbuilding. It has a non-sticky texture and fine wood fiber, with moderate grogged tooth.
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A medium course clay body which exhibits excellent throwing characteristics; and also an excellent sculptural body with remarkable resistance to cracks and warps. It is highly grogged with a toasty color. Fires from cone 04 to cone 6.
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Fires gray-stony-white in reduction at cone 10, off white at cone 5 oxidation, and bright white at cone 05 (raku). It is a medium textured, low shrinkage body designed for large-scale hand-built sculpture and tile work.
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