Bill Hall on thu 24 oct 96
Does anyone have the recipe for spooze that was on the list a few months
ago? I put it in a "safe" place so that I could try it later, and now can't
find it, I.E., hid it from myself.
TIA
William Amsterlaw on sat 26 oct 96
For Bill Hall:
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:53:52 EDT Bill Hall asked:
>>
Does anyone have the recipe for spooze that was on the list a few months ago?
<<
The recipe was posted by Peggy Heer 10-30-95:
>>
SPOOZE
1/3 part clay body you are using
1/3 part corn syrup. brown or clear..no matter
1/3 part vinegar
a drop of peroxide to keep the whole mess from going stinky and fermenting.
<<
- Bill Amsterlaw (wamster@msn.com)
Plattsburgh, NY
Peggy Heer on sat 26 oct 96
Hi ...SPOOZE recipe one more time.....
1/3 dry clay body you are using
1/3 vinigar, ordinary white kitken vin.
1/3 corn syrup, white or brown.
A drop or 2 of peroxide, out of your bathroom cabinet. This is to keep the
spooze from fermenting and giving off a real stink.
Make thin by adding more of the corn syrup or vin. Make thicker by adding
more of the dry clay body. The above rec. is only a base to start from.
I use my dried trimmings for my spooze and have a S. jar for each clay body
I use. Wash tools, brushes etc after using as the spooze will become cement
like and is not good for tools and brushes if they are left. If left with
out a good washing, soak in a cup of warm water till the spooze comes off.
Have a fun, sticky time. ;>}}}
As Always in Clay Peggy
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Does anyone have the recipe for spooze that was on the list a few months
>ago? I put it in a "safe" place so that I could try it later, and now can't
>find it, I.E., hid it from myself.
>
>TIA
Peggy Heer / Heer Pottery E-Mail p4337@connect.ab.ca
Edmonton AB, Canada
http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/artists/pheer/
Estelle Renberger on sun 27 oct 96
What exactly is "spooze" used for?? sounds interesting..
also..is anyone else on clay art using a mixture of paper pulp and clay
for handbuilt/slab/and sculptural work? I have been experimenting with
this for a few months and would like to hear from others familiar with
the procedure.
Lyn Packer on mon 25 aug 97
Hi Bonnie, Have just recently joined the group and really enjoying feeling
a part of it, even though, as yet haven't contributed towards it. Please
tell me, what is spooze used for? I can see from the way every one is so
tolerant towards each other's queries, and helpful, that you'll be the same
towards me, if there is an obvious answer to this.
Lyn, enjoying beautiful a Spring in New
Zealand
mel jacobson on tue 11 jul 00
the vinegar, sugar, clay mix has been called spooze here on clayart.
really works well.
i use both porcelain and stoneware spooze.
mel
kevin caufield uses a mix of slip and soda ash like spooze.
he loves it.
FROM MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, USA
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Bruce Gioia on wed 12 jul 00
----- Original Message -----
From: mel jacobson
> the vinegar, sugar, clay mix has been called spooze here on clayart.
> really works well.
________________________
mel...
could you pass along the proportions, please.
size 44...shoot, too big for me
otherwise you could have sent them also
Bruce
mel jacobson on wed 12 jul 00
is used to attach anything you got.
handles, lids.
it works instead of slip to attach leather things to leather things.
mel
FROM MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, USA
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Russel Fouts on thu 13 jul 00
>> spooze 1 cup sugar...any kind, honey, sugar, sugar syrup. 1 cup vinegar,
any kind. 1 cup slip of your choice, you choice of thickness. <<
This thead about "spooze" is a wonderful way to evoke the memory of much
loved and missed Clayart member Peggy Heer.
What will we be remembered for?
Russel
Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75
Http://www.mypots.com
http://www.Japan-Net.ne.jp/~iwcat
Sharon31 on fri 14 jul 00
Hello Mel!
I developed this way: The clay I use today, if possible when it is dry. for
1000grams. about 1 gram Soda Ash and 1.5 Sodium silicate + water to make it
like cream.
Some of these bodies can be also slipcast. It works good, but I will try
your spooze because of two reasons:
1)Not scientific numbers.
2)Spooze, sound great. Does it has any meaning?My translator tool does not
recognize it.
Ababi
sharon@shoval.org.il
http://www.israelceramics.org/main.asp?what=gallery
http://www.milkywayceramics.com/cgallery/asharon.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: mel jacobson
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 06:09
Subject: spooze
> is used to attach anything you got.
> handles, lids.
> it works instead of slip to attach leather things to leather things.
> mel
>
>
> FROM MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, USA
> http://www.pclink.com/melpots (website)
>
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Ron Collins on tue 11 dec 01
My two cents....student made ornaments with loop top, I broke one =
putting the greenware in kiln....stuck both broken ends in spooze I made =
last week, after reading on clayart...stuck them together, and laid in =
kiln and you can't tell which one was patched...worked perfectly....also =
didn't work on bisque crack....was porcelain, with high shrinkage from =
bisque to maturity...so, I like it better on raw clay...Melinda =
Collins...
Snail Scott on thu 31 jan 02
At 06:30 PM 1/31/02 -0000, you wrote:
>...what is cairo syrup?
Properly spelled: Karo Syrup. A common
US brand name of heavy corn syrup. In
some parts of the US (such as Illinois)
there are towns named after the Egyptian
city of Cairo, but pronounced 'CARE-o'
instead of KY-row, hence the common
misspelling.
-Snail
Martin Howard on thu 31 jan 02
Susan Parish, what is cairo syrup?
Something sticky flowing from the mummies in the pyramids perhaps.
Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
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Updated 27th January 2002
Marcia Selsor on thu 31 jan 02
It is KARO syrup, white corn syrup.
Marcia
Martin Howard wrote:
>
> Susan Parish, what is cairo syrup?
> Something sticky flowing from the mummies in the pyramids perhaps.
>
> Martin Howard
> Webbs Cottage Pottery
> Woolpits Road, Great Saling
> BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
> 01371 850 423
> martin@webbscottage.co.uk
> http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
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Katheleen Nez on fri 1 feb 02
...you say 'cairo' and i say 'karo'...
(actually i rather like martin's take on the subject -
'something sticky flowing from the mummies in the
pyramids perhaps...') Is this what they used to
reattach lugs to their wine jars in ancient egypt?...
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mel jacobson on sun 15 oct 06
peggy hear/spelling.
was a wonderful clayarter in the
early years.
she died and we have always
thought of her when we speak of spooze.
she was the first to publish it on clayart.
nice memory of her.
anyway.
proportions.
it does not matter a great deal.
sort of the nils lou joke.
gorilla pee is the main ingredient.
i just take a quart jar, dump in all the old
karo syrup from that back cupboard, you
know, back there behind the old molasses,
and the old dried up baking soda and the
spices that are marked 8 cents. (now priced at $3.65 for the same
sized box.)
add some hot water...add your own clay scrap (dry)
to that...make it so it is thick like potato soup.
add a cup of vinegar.
stir it up.
remember, it is sticky when you use it.
some add soda ash. some use sodium silicate
and ash. lana wilson has some great ideas.
i think the vinegar and sugar are the trick.
don't get too scientific...it just works.
and, we were going to do a book, just as you suggest.
but those note book sorta books get very pricey..and
bill jones thought we would have much more success with
the paper bound book...so far, he is correct. (always listen to
your editor, they know best.)
i really like the betty crocker cook book look.
like an old note book, with ring binders.
all clay related books should be made like that.
i bet many of you have broken the back of ron and john's book.
used it til it falls apart. as it should be.
just buy another one for show.
mel
un /read books always look new. i like that dog eared, worn
look to great books...use them over and over.
clean/perfect usually means they live on a shelf in the dark and never
get used...like perfectly clean, shiny potters wheel.
looks good, never used.
from: mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
Clayart page link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Kathryn Hughes on sun 15 oct 06
Mel, what is the percentage of the spooze that you use? A little of this? A little of that? Also, I enjoy your responses tremendously to alot of the whining newbies. You sound so NY to me. with warm regards, Kathryn in NC (formerly NY)
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Maurice Weitman on sun 15 oct 06
At 09:45 -0700 on 10/15/06, Kathryn Hughes wrote:
>Mel, what is the percentage of the spooze that you use? A little of
>this? A little of that?
Once again... The archives to the rescue!!! (Even though the
archives don't contain messages before March 1996, there are
occasional echoes from earlier, as in this one:)
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:24:13 EDT
From: William Amsterlaw
Subject: Spooze
The recipe was posted by Peggy Heer 10-30-95:
>>
SPOOZE
1/3 part clay body you are using
1/3 part corn syrup. brown or clear..no matter
1/3 part vinegar
a drop of peroxide to keep the whole mess from going stinky and fermenting.
<<
- Bill Amsterlaw (wamster@msn.com)
Plattsburgh, NY
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Regards,
Maurice (who knows that Mel doesn't use no steenkin' measurin'.
Cuppa this, cuppa that, cuppa the other is all this one takes.)
Alisa Liskin Clausen on sun 12 sep 10
Just to get it absoulutely right and the correct credit, Eleanor reminded m=
e
that Peggy's name
is Spooze and she used corn syrup. It has a fine shelf life, but I think i=
t
smells so I mix up what I need. Also because I use different clay types.
Additionally, the paper pulp can be shredded toilet paper, but I use a pul=
p
I buy in a large bag. Honey works as well as corn syrup also.
Best rega
--
Alisa Liskin Clausen
Troldskovvej 42
DK 6200 Aabenraa
Denmark
(45) 20 24 66 40
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