joyce on wed 18 apr 07
I have no association with Phil's tools. That said, almost any of
Phil's Bison tools will remove wax from clay pots, even from bisque.
A gentle, yet firm, scraping will remove the wax and not ruin
the titanium steel Bison tool nor the pot. Amazing.
I hope "titanium steel" is correct. The wind drives my memory
in a zigzag pattern, so who knows?
Joyce
In the Mojave where the wind is cold (for us) and the wildflowers are
not blooming. We miss them. However, the roses are extraordinary!
I do not have a fine green thumb, but even I can grow roses in the
desert. Good thing. Many of the cactus, which have been thriving for several
years now and having babies by the numbers, froze from our colder than
usual winters which led to frozen cactus for weeks. Now they are black
with chunks falling off, and look sad....... the Palo Verdes still
have their green
bark and seem to
be recovering, except for one........ and the Spanish Broom is budding like
crazy.
asim mahmood on wed 18 apr 07
One can remove the wax with different tools from the surface only but not
from the micro pours of porous pot and as rightly suggested by some one use
the Heat Gun or bisque the pot again.
I remove the wax from the bisqued pots with the Heat Gun purchased 2
years back from SEARS in $ 89.00 but would not recommend it to you friends.
Just buy a heat gun in $ 9.99 from Harbor Tools and add an excellent
power tool to your studio inventory for other multiple usages too. Its temp
shoots up to 800 F within no time, take precautions, keep moving and swaying
the source of heat and there goes the wax in fumes.
Asim Mahmood.
>From: joyce
>Reply-To: Clayart
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: Removing Wax From Bisque
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:56:25 -0700
>
>I have no association with Phil's tools. That said, almost any of
>Phil's Bison tools will remove wax from clay pots, even from bisque.
>A gentle, yet firm, scraping will remove the wax and not ruin
>the titanium steel Bison tool nor the pot. Amazing.
>
>I hope "titanium steel" is correct. The wind drives my memory
>in a zigzag pattern, so who knows?
>
>Joyce
>In the Mojave where the wind is cold (for us) and the wildflowers are
>not blooming. We miss them. However, the roses are extraordinary!
>I do not have a fine green thumb, but even I can grow roses in the
>desert. Good thing. Many of the cactus, which have been thriving for
>several
>years now and having babies by the numbers, froze from our colder than
>usual winters which led to frozen cactus for weeks. Now they are black
>with chunks falling off, and look sad....... the Palo Verdes still
>have their green
> bark and seem to
>be recovering, except for one........ and the Spanish Broom is budding like
>crazy.
>
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Hank Murrow on wed 18 apr 07
On Apr 18, 2007, at 7:56 AM, joyce wrote:
> I have no association with Phil's tools. That said, almost any of
> Phil's Bison tools will remove wax from clay pots, even from bisque.
> A gentle, yet firm, scraping will remove the wax and not ruin
> the titanium steel Bison tool nor the pot. Amazing.
>
> I hope "titanium steel" is correct. The wind drives my memory
> in a zigzag pattern, so who knows?
Since no one has yet corrected this, and I know Joyce won't mind,
Phil's tools are tipped with Tungsten carbide rather than Titanium.
That is why they are so brittle(it's really a crystal, like Silicon
Carbide) and also why I have gotten as many as 7000 trimmed pots out
of one before having Phil re-sharpen it. Phil's tools are a real gift
to the potting community, IMHO.
I have no financial interest in Phil's business, just a very happy
customer. Wish I could get him to move to Oregon with his outfit!
Cheers, Hank in Eugene
www.murrow.biz/hank
Bonita Cohn on thu 19 apr 07
I know this is late in the thread, but I can offer a
method that worked for one of my students --a method
that I have not seen on the list. (maybe I missed
it...)
Hold the piece with the wax drip over a butane lighter
until it burns out. The offending drip burns out
leaving soot. This has worked for cone 5 bmix --fired
in an electric kiln to ^5, it took the glaze.
This might work over a tall candle so you don't risk a
hot hand with the lighter lit for so long.
Saludos,
Bonita in San Francisco
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Lee Love on fri 20 apr 07
On 4/20/07, Bonita Cohn wrote:
> Hold the piece with the wax drip over a butane lighter
> until it burns out. T
Believe me, a butane torch is much easier. Just takes a couple seconds.
If you use a lighter, try to us the long type used for
fireplace/grill lighting. The cigarette type bic lighter will get hot
to the holding hand if you keep the flame going long enough.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/
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