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help! b-mix is weeping

updated fri 31 may 96

 

medelman@facstaff.wisc.edu on wed 8 may 96

I have only a sample 25 # bag of B-mix, so I have none of the experience
you relate. Still, even though it is listed by Laguna as a cone 5 clay, do
you fire it only to ^5? Some potters I met near San Diego who use it fire
it consistently to cone 6. They are not on Clayart and I can't figure out
how to connect you with them.

The other thought I have is : Have you phoned Laguna and asked them if they
are hearing this and what they suggest?

I was just thinking today, after discovering a respray job on a glazed
teapot, with part of the sprayed glaze sitting on the shelf like corn
flakes: What is it about us all that has us (me) in the face of a fresh
defeat, go right back, start all over, think it through maybe, and try
again?. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes..

Bacia Edelman medelman@facstaff.wisc.edu