On his days off he would go back home to Miaoli to make pottery at the kiln of the noted ceramicist Wu Kai-hsing. There he produced many items of tremendous originality, such as pots with ruffled rims and vases with a gash running down the middle.
私底下，則利用假日回苗栗老家，藉苗栗有名的老師父吳開興窯場創作，做出了一批極富個性表情的造型器皿。