Vince Pitelka on thu 15 aug 96
I have received many responses to my request for the recipe for a ^10 glaze
called Sloan's black. I will not have an opportunity to test them until a
little later this fall, and will post the results on Clayart. If one of the
recipes turns out as well as the recipe-less batch we had around, it will be
a dynamite high-fire reduction glaze.
Thanks especially to Rafael Molina, Dave Durnford (the only recipe actually
referred to as Sloan's Black) and Rebekah Shope. Jane Peterson - if you are
out there, I have not been able to find Thomas Orr's email address in my
records. If you are in touch with him or if anyone else out there has
contacts at OSAC, Jane tells me that they have the recipe in their glaze
lab. It would be interesting to see if it is the same one Dave sent. And
Rebecca Mason, please by all means to ask your friend Ned Sloan if this is
his glaze, and if so perhaps he would share the original recipe and we can
see how it compares with the others which have appeared.
If anyone else comes up with another recipe for an irridescent, dense,
semi-matt black ^10 reduction glaze, whether or not it is called Sloan's
Black, please let me know. I'll try 'em all. Thanks -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka - vpitelka@Dekalb.Net
Phone - home 615/597-5376, work 615/597-6801
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville TN 37166
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