• You have such a brilliant analytical mind, able to find solutions to many ceramic problems. You have accomplished so much in your life, helping us potters understand what we are doing. I cannot thank you enough for your vast ceramic reference library online. I think you are a national treasure.

• Your site is great! It is so good to have your site as I venture into making my food-safe glazes. I live in São Paulo, Brazil, so the raw materials here naturally can be very different from the ones in most of the books and websites, as we don't have much of that available here. So your site is the only that I have found so far that is really helpful if you want to start from scratch, so thank you! Its like my dream as a potter to make beautiful, lasting and safe ware so your website and insight-live are invaluable sources of information for me. I am so glad to be able to work with this! I really admire your work and tell my students about your website. Here in Brazil, studio ceramics is not a very developed area. Many people don not even know/care about being precise and knowledgable about safety with glazes. So your website is like an oasis in the tropical desert.

• This site is an incredible resource and I just want to thank you for it. It fills in so many gaps from my studio art ceramics education and has made me more confident in the pieces I sell. I reference it almost weekly and have recommended it to so many other potters. The ceramics world is better off learning and applying this wisdom and I'm so happy to see someone teach so technically and seriously about the material. Culturally, there is a casualness in the pottery world (whether in community studios or school art rooms) that is borderline negligent in some ceramic circles and I just really appreciate when I see someone pursuing excellence and technical mastery of the material. Because it really matters!

• I'm a professional potter from Western Australia with a 30 year career - self taught. I came across Digitalfire when researching raw materials - an incredible resource you've put together!

• Tony, I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. In art school, I got a thorough grounding in ceramics -- in a macro sense. Micro, not so much. You, then, are the professor who is helping me to complete my education, via Digitalfire -- truly a Phenominal piece of work.