Janet Price on mon 12 may 97
I found some local clay in the piles of dirt removed when a friend was
building her house. Just for fun, I made a very tiny amount of slip from it,
brushed it on a cone 6 porcelain test tile and fired it to cone 5. Aside from a
few small grains of something, it melted nicely to a very dark brown
gloss. It doesn't appear to be crazing, but it's quite thin. Is this
beginner's luck or is this what you'd expect? It's a nice brown,
darker than albany slip and not as warm a brown.
I have a bucket of the
stuff now that I'm trying to squish and mix into a consistency that I
can put thru a colander and then my glaze screen. There seem to be a
couple of different colors of clay there, one very dark and the other
much lighter, but I didn't separate them. There's less of the very dark
stuff. I'd like to give my friend a house-warming present of a pot
glazed with clay from her lot. I'm also planning on testing it at cone
04 to see if her kids could make pinch pots from the clay that would
hold up.
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Janet Price, Chief Information Officer
Carroll College, Waukesha WI 53186
jprice@carroll1.cc.edu or jprice@ccadmin.cc.edu
414-524-7120
Cindy on tue 13 may 97
Janet,
That's wonderful. :) I think that if you want to use the clay for pinch
pots, you may need to mix in a proportion of sand. Depending on the clay,
maybe start experimenting at around 1/10th. BTW, that's book learning. I
don't really have any personal knowledge of this, but I want to try it,
too.
Cindy Strnad
Just for fun, I made a very tiny amount of slip from it,
> brushed it on a cone 6 porcelain test tile and fired it to cone 5. Aside
from a
> few small grains of something, it melted nicely to a very dark brown
> gloss. It doesn't appear to be crazing, but it's quite thin. It's a
nice brown,
> darker than albany slip and not as warm a brown. I'm also planning on
testing it at cone 04 to see if her kids could make pinch pots from the
clay that would hold up.
> --
> Janet Price
Dave Hedblom on tue 13 may 97
Janet,
I always carry buckets with me when I travel. My wife has finally gotten
use to me stopping and walking to people along the road and getting a bucket
or two full. I usually dry it and then pound it to death with a metal baseball
bat. I then screen it and mix it 60% clay and 40% wood ash. This seems to be
a good starting point. I fire to ^10 and have some beautiful dark greens to
light yellow/browns. I love this type of glaze.
dave
claymoon@pconline.com
At 09:35 AM 5/12/97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I found some local clay in the piles of dirt removed when a friend was
>building her house. Just for fun, I made a very tiny amount of slip from it,
>brushed it on a cone 6 porcelain test tile and fired it to cone 5. Aside
from a
>few small grains of something, it melted nicely to a very dark brown
>gloss. It doesn't appear to be crazing, but it's quite thin. Is this
>beginner's luck or is this what you'd expect? It's a nice brown,
>darker than albany slip and not as warm a brown.
>
>I have a bucket of the
>stuff now that I'm trying to squish and mix into a consistency that I
>can put thru a colander and then my glaze screen. There seem to be a
>couple of different colors of clay there, one very dark and the other
>much lighter, but I didn't separate them. There's less of the very dark
>stuff. I'd like to give my friend a house-warming present of a pot
>glazed with clay from her lot. I'm also planning on testing it at cone
>04 to see if her kids could make pinch pots from the clay that would
>hold up.
>--
>Janet Price, Chief Information Officer
>Carroll College, Waukesha WI 53186
>jprice@carroll1.cc.edu or jprice@ccadmin.cc.edu
>414-524-7120
>
>
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