• I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for the incredible work you have done over the decades. A large part of my own journey and understanding as a ceramicist is built upon the knowledge I was able to learn through your work at Digitalfire and Insight-live. The value of this technical foundation is truly immeasurable, and I wanted to let you know how much it has meant to my development in this craft. Thank you for everything you have contributed to the joy and science of ceramics.

• Sure do like Insight and I've switched to using the live version. It's excellent!

• Tony, I just love your posts! What a great teacher you are! I appreciate the continued chance to learn from you.

• 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.

• Over the past year, I have come to appreciate just how much knowledge, dedication, and generosity went into building this incredible resource. To know that you spent over 35 years compiling, testing, documenting, and sharing glaze information with the ceramics community is truly remarkable. Potters like myself have benefited immensely from the work you have done. The thought of such a vast collection of knowledge becoming inaccessible is honestly heartbreaking. In a world where reliable ceramic information can be difficult to find, the glaze directory has been an invaluable reference point for both beginners and experienced potters alike.