• Love the post (about leaching in glazes). I am the bad guy on Facebook ceramic because I always bring up this subject. So sad.

• So appreciative in general for your work and writing on digitalfire. I've learned a lot. Truly invaluable. My background is in science - I really appreciate and gel with the curiosity and experimentation you bring to the field, structured knowledge and approach, not to mention the open access and tracker-free site. Really cuts through the noise, and there's a lot of it. Thank you!!

• I teach ceramics and have been doing it a long time. I am also a subscriber to your site. You are a Godsend and a wealth of information, and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with our community. So I've been doing this a long time, and ceramics never ceases to humble me.

• Many thanks for your time and trouble, re the information cone 6. You are a wealth of generosity and help to the home Potter.

• I just wanted to say, thank you! I’m relatively new to pottery, taking a mostly self-taught approach and I’m at the stage where glazing is in my mind. I don’t want to be (and can’t see myself ever) buying glazes from commercial suppliers. I want to learn my craft with glaze as much as I do with my clay preparation and pottery making. I’ve seen “the dragon” and been uninspired by so much of what I find online and to be honest, in many glaze books. It seems more popular to try and present a mass of glaze possibilities than to offer a learning experience beyond being told a glaze needs a melter, a refractory and a glass-maker. Enough to offer a very basic understanding, but nothing upon which to build the understanding that will allow some degree of mastery (or at least influence) of your glaze making. I am so pleased to have found digitalfire.com. You’ve shown me exactly how to approach and understand glazing, giving me the foundation for approach I sought. I was thinking of base glazes and what you’ve shown me about working on from those is fantastic and exactly what I was looking for. To have a reliable base glaze to modify and develop to meet different needs; to understand how to shift a melting point or adjust the surface gloss; to come to know how the mechanisms in a glaze and understanding them gives me the route to creating glazes that realize my intentions - wow! I can’t thank you enough. Rather than having to form a dumb reliance on a book of recipe cards and a bunch of website bookmarks (which I wasn’t wanting to go for) you’ve given me the foundation for a lifelong development and understanding of the glazes I will make, that will become “my” glazes. You have really opened my mind to the whole subject and it doesn’t seem to be a problem that I’m no scientist or chemist. You’ve shared your knowledge in a way that is completely approachable and remarkably easy to understand for someone without any kind of science/chemistry background.