[Potterylover]

I'm curious. What do people do with broken bisque? Is it just thrown away?

[Matt Oz]

I save some of it, it's good to have for glaze tests, like glaze combinations or new recipes.

[Mark C.]

I too always have some around for glaze tests as well as it works well to sand off wax errors with-as it grinds in bisque dust and then does not resist glaze.
Mark

[SShirley]

You can use it for drainage in the bottoms of flower pots.
If you have a lot of it you could put it in bags and give it away for other people to use. Maybe they could buy a flower pot (from you) and get a bag of drainage bisque pieces.

[olisny]

scahanin, on 15 June 2012 - 04:10 PM, said:

I'm curious. What do people do with broken bisque? Is it just thrown away?

If you have enough that's when you get into mosaics.

[Marcia Selsor]

I use them for glaze tests too. And sometimes in potted plant containers.
Marcia

[Tao]

I make homemade grog for my large sculpture.

[dognose2]

I use larger pcs. for glaze tests, but be sure to label them, using s ceramic pencil, with bisq. temp. & kind of clay.

[Clay Pigeon Pottery]

I toss some of mine into the trash compactor, then into the cement mixer and tumble with sand to smooth the sharp edges; Then I use it as mulch in the garden. I like the color---it blends with the paint on my house (no surprise, since I used a piece of bisque to choose the color in the first place!) I also use broken bisque pieces as plant markers by writing on them with a Sharpie. It lasts about one season before it fades out, which is perfect for summer veggies. It fits with my "Mediterranean cottage" style garden.

[grayfree]

I live on the water. I am making a breakwater! building up an area for a dock.

[DBCurley]

I haven't done it, but I've heard of people using it for the bottoms of rain barrels that are buried in the ground. All sorts of usages!

[Mark C.]

Less than 1 mile away I can take any ceramic or china item in raw to fired forms for recycling into road fill/paving. I drop off toilets to glaze ware to clay trimmings concrete whatever as its non organic.
They grind it add ground rocks and use it on State Highways. Its a win win
MANY PLACES IN THIS STATE HAVE THIS GOING ON
California may be ahead or behind on this??
Mark

[Carol Eaton]

I audit a cermics class at a local college and we have huge bins of bisque pieces tossed into the garbage by the students. I always wondered what other uses it could serve. Thanks for the excellent ideas.