Individual’s thoughts and expectations of handmade objects, perfection, imperfection, and limitations of the hand have fueled my personal research since grad school. Constantly questioning the work I am putting out in the world keeps me growing and learning as a maker and educator. This fun challenging work has abled me to include my students and firing mates. They have aided in parts of the process ranging from messy glazing to the stacking, loading and firing. This has allowed me to loosen up and share ownership over all of the ceramic processes. It is exciting to see my students spill, splatter, fling and drip glazes haphazardly over the wares and have them help me prepare and load the work into the kiln. Every step of the process and the hands that touch each piece affect the outcome of the final product. There is a residue of the mark of the maker(s) and hints and highlights intended perfect imperfections and/or gifts from the firing process. Embracing what David Pye calls “the workmanship of risk. Workmanship using any kind of technique or apparatus, in which the quality of the result is not predetermined, but depends on the judgment, dexterity and care which the maker exercises as he works.” (The Nature and Art of Workmanship, p. 20). This project has been a learning curve of new techniques and processes, which were necessary for me to master as we wood fire regularly at WCU.