SBRANFPOTS@aol.com on thu 25 apr 96
I'm just catching up on my clayart mail and noticed a query by Frank Helme
about looking for a clear liner glaze to waterproof the inside of raku ware.
I'm afraid we're talking an oxymoron here. No raku glaze fired in the raku
technique will be waterproof. No glaze at all for that matter fired in the
raku technique will be waterproof. The fast cooling causes the glazes to
craze thereby rendering them porous. The clay too is rendered porous. The
result-leaky pots!
If anyone has a waterproof raku glaze please let me know!!!!
Steve Branfman
Lori Wilkinson on thu 25 apr 96
At 06:41 AM 4/25/96 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I'm just catching up on my clayart mail and noticed a query by Frank Helme
>about looking for a clear liner glaze to waterproof the inside of raku ware.
>I'm afraid we're talking an oxymoron here. No raku glaze fired in the raku
>technique will be waterproof. No glaze at all for that matter fired in the
>raku technique will be waterproof. The fast cooling causes the glazes to
>craze thereby rendering them porous. The clay too is rendered porous. The
>result-leaky pots!
>
>If anyone has a waterproof raku glaze please let me know!!!!
>
>Steve Branfman
>
>Hi Steve and others,
With regards to sealing low fired or raku pots, someone mentioned using a
silicon sealer inside. Know anything about it and just how functional does
it make the pot?
Lori Wilkinson in Roswell NM where the weather is gorgeous but the old back
doesn't want to get on with
the program.
Mudfingers@aol.com on thu 25 apr 96
Dear Lori: I'm the one who suggested using Axner's lamp liner for making a
raku pot waterproof. I have no idea how functional the container will be
after using the lamp liner. It will make it waterproof, however. No oil
seeps into my lamp bodies and I do raku some of my oil lamps. My suggestion
would be to call Axner and ask for specifics on the lamp liner.
Lynn in L.A. (lower Alabama--beautiful, beautiful weather and cool nights.
Into the hot tub tonite!!!)
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