Leon Popik on sat 8 feb 97
I have also found that if you use wax resist, you still have glaze that
stays on. Latex is great stuff to use if you can control it,you can put
multiple layers of glaze and stain on with it.
I have found it needs to be put on thick if you want to take it off. If
you put it under a glaze, it has a tendency to chip the glaze as you pull
it off (could use gum in glaze. )
You need to wear a mask and goggles when taking it off your pots, it
gets very dusty and the glaze flicks up at you.
The major downside to latex, is that it destroys your brushes, the latex
dries very quickly. To avoid wrecking your brushes, keep dipping them in
Ammonia and rinsing them off while your using them. Do not use expensive
brushes.
I have used ammonia based latex, but there is a water based latex .I also
would still use ammonia for those brushes.
Kirk Morrison on sun 9 feb 97
On 8 Feb 97 at 10:32, Leon Popik wrote:
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> I have also found that if you use wax resist, you still have glaze that
> stays on. Latex is great stuff to use if you can control it,you can put
> multiple layers of glaze and stain on with it.
> I have found it needs to be put on thick if you want to take it off. If
> you put it under a glaze, it has a tendency to chip the glaze as you pull
> it off (could use gum in glaze. )
This sounds alot like the masks sold for use with paint, the method for
removing them is to take and score lightly with a fine knife at the
edge of the mask before removal, to prevent tearing when removing the
mask. Do I do this, not with my pots I use wax.
FAY & RALPH Loewenthal on sun 9 feb 97
Leon Popik said "The major downside to latex, is that it destroys your
brushes, the latexdries very quickly. To avoid wrecking your brushes,
keep dipping them in Ammonia and rinsing them off while your using
them. Do not use expensive brushes.
I have used ammonia based latex, but there is a water based latex .I also
would still use ammonia for those brushes."
We dip our brushes in dish washing liquid, which is far less iritating than
amonia. You have to be very sure that you remove all the latex otherwise
when you take the pots out of the firing you can have some very ugly
marks left behind. No matter which resist you use, when you have intricate
impressions you have to work very carefully. Good luck Ralph.
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