You already know how to make the work. This workbook is for the other half of a studio — the glaze math, the firing records, the true cost of a pot, and the price that finally pays you for your time. It turns the guessing into a calm, repeatable system without getting in the way of the part you love.
One workbook, the whole business side of the studio. Mix any glaze to any batch from a 15-recipe library, fire on purpose with a cone reference and a firing log, keep clay and materials from running out mid-commission, and price your work for a profit with labor built in.
What’s inside:
- ✦ A glaze recipe library (15 recipes) — clear, celadon, tenmoku, cobalt, copper, shino, rutile, matte white and more across cone 04, 6 & 10, each a base recipe plus colorants, with notes and a functional-use caution
- ✦ A glaze batch calculator — type a batch size and a recipe’s percentages; the gram weights fill in for you, from a 200 g test to a 10,000 g bucket
- ✦ A kiln & firing reference — a cone & temperature chart (°F and °C), sample firing schedules, a glaze-defect troubleshooting guide, and a firing log for every load
- ✦ A clay & materials inventory — track clay, glazes, frits and raw materials with a reorder point that flags low stock automatically, pre-loaded with five example rows to overwrite
- ✦ A kiln firing-cost calculator — what a firing really costs, and the cost per pot
- ✦ A per-piece cost & pricing calculator — clay + glaze + firing + labor + overhead → true cost, with a suggested wholesale and retail price
- ✦ Excel and Google Sheets, both ready — the .xlsx opens natively in Excel and LibreOffice, and a link in your download drops a private, fully working copy of all eight tabs into your Google Drive. No importing, nothing to rebuild.
- ✦ A Start Here studio guide + printable logs — glaze math, reading cones, costing, pricing, a safe studio, and print-and-use firing / glaze-test / inventory sheets
The working part really works: eight tabs and three live calculators — type your numbers and the gram weights, the firing cost and the prices all compute for you. Every formula was tested in Excel and in the published Google Sheet, so the version you pick behaves the same.
Evergreen — use it any year: cone temperatures and glaze percentages are timeless, and the logs use a date column you fill in yourself.
Instant digital download. Nothing ships. The files are yours to use in your own studio.
Created with AI assistance under Ardent Workshop’s creative direction, then reviewed and edited before release. This is a studio reference, not certification: the glaze recipes are illustrative starting points to test on your own work — not tested, food-safe formulas — and proving any glaze safe for food or drink is your responsibility. Ceramic materials and kilns carry real hazards; follow your suppliers’ safety data sheets. Costing and pricing examples are illustrative, not financial or tax advice. Cone temperatures are approximate; consult the official Orton chart. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Orton, any kiln or material manufacturer, or any marketplace.
