Stoneware 1-C fires to a sandstone color in oxidation and a brown in reduction. In fact, stoneware 1-C will give the appearance of a cone 10 reduction clay body when fired to cone 5 in oxidation.
 
This body is made of Northern California clays averaging just 25 miles from the pits to IMCO's headquarters in Sacramento, CA.
 
Containing a fine silica sand, this body is an excellent, smooth-textured wheel clay which will produce vitreous stoneware pottery at cone 8. Though it was originally developed as a cone 6 body, changes in the clay pits have increased the temperature for vitrification to cone 8.
 
We have recently released a new body Golden Brown and Delicious that has a similar feel and look to Stoneware 1-C but is mature at cone 6.