• Thank you for your time, and I am totally excited that I woke up to an email from Tony Hansen (I’m a big fan)

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• Tony, you're a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks for the information. I'm a self-taught potter living in Hansville, WA. could not have done it without your scientific approach and papers.

• This site is an amazing resource. I'm getting back into pottery after about a 25-30 year hiatus, and back then technical information like what you share was almost impossible to come by.

• I work at a small, but rapidly growing custom slip-cast studio. The first few years were a learning curve gauntlet that, in retrospect, I am surprised we exited intact. This preface is to give a sense of how in debt I am to your research and hard work. I have had to learn as I go along, and the information you provide at digitalfire.com has been indispensable, and, quite frankly, an excellent cover for my ignorance on countless occasions! It is also the only source of information about many ceramics topics that I feel I can trust, knowing that it has been backed up with careful consideration and testing. Thank you again.