• I'm accepting the challenge. First: find/develop a good base recipe. One for clear and one for celadon. Then add the colors. And play with "surface." Experiment. Keep impeccable notes. Change one variable at a time. Yada, yada.

• Thanks! I look forward to seeing your posts. I have read and printed many things you have posted over many years. Have learned a lot from you.

• Thank you for everything you do online, I've learned a lot from your blog and continue to do so (I'm an art school graduate and in spite of our curriculum having included a glaze chemistry course, our professors lacked an industry background, which does offer many additional insights)

• I hope you're doing well and that things have smoothed out after all the online uproar that you ended up being in the middle of. I had a lot of empathy for what you went through with that, but I want to thank you for your amzing dedication to research and to sharing open-source information — you make a real difference to so many people in our field through sharing your research.

• Dear tony: Nice work keep it up!