• I wish to thank you for letting people like me use the information you have on the endless glaze articles you do, for free. Without your information, I would never have progressed as a potter in Mozambique.

• When it comes to new technology, I'm still thrilled with the chainsaw as apposed to an ax. I really do like glaze testing. You see a recipe in a book but it doesn't do you a lot of good until you can see it on a tile.

• You are such a godsend, Tony. Even though I taught ceramic science for 30 years I find myself constantly using your site and learning something every time. Just want to say thanks, thanks, thanks….

• I just want to thank you for this most interesting and informative article. I just did a general search for the compatibility of a stoneware glaze on porcelain, and your page came up! Wow! what a mine of information and just what I needed as I was also looking for a slip recipe for my students.

• Tony, we've never met, but I want to chime in with the many others who have contacted you, telling you how important your work has been to the ceramics community over the years. I am a potter today because of people who took me under their wing and showed me everything they know for the love of the craft, and because they believed in access to knowledge and education for all who want to work in clay. The spirit of the ceramics community is with people like you who do it for the love of the craft, and money second (which is not to say you aren't deserving of plenty of the second as well). Your program is an instrument of democracy, as funny as that may sound. In a world of paywalls, you make information available to all.