Wyndham Dennison on wed 2 jul 08
Hey Mel, those were some awesome bowl pics you posted
> we ran out of shino, so i had to scramble to create another one.
> (not a techno glaze guru's dream, but the way i do things.)
> i did not have any soda felds, or spodamine at camp, so
> did this.
>
> custer spar 2 lbs
> ball 1.6 lbs (for those from big cities..a bit more than 1 1/2 lbs.)
> nehp sy 5 lbs
> talc 3 lbs
> soda ash 2 lbs.
> i made this up in my head, sort of seat of the pants.
> man, was it a nice glaze. in wood firing it was bright white
> with gray patterns, in salt, white with big gray/black trapping.
> and it crackled like a dream.
> it is also a testimony that we fire to cone 11 and things really
> melt well.
That looks like an interesting cone 10 gas glaze heavy reduction
possibility. Looks like you have a iron bearing clay body to get some of
that toasty orange in the lower parts of the bowl or were you using 4x4
porcelain? I try some next firing Those were keeper for sure,Wyndham
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