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questions about rutile glazes

updated mon 31 mar 97

 

Jonathan Kirkendall on sun 9 mar 97

Hi -
My experience with high fire (cone 9) glazes which use rutile to produce
broken, mottled coloring is that in reduction, they run like crazy, and in
oxidation, they pit, not run. Why? Does anyone have any ideas to reduce the
pitting in oxidation firings?

Jonathan in Yonkers