Lili Krakowski on tue 29 jul 08
First of all, the sky IS falling! So now that that is settled...
Crazing generally is blamed on the glaze, which really is a cheap shot.
Half the responsibility for crazing falls on the clay body!
Or why I urge people who use commercial bodies to have three bodies for each
firing temp. One is the body out of which you make stuff, and the other two
are used in addition to the first, to test glazes.
Poor Ron could reformulate from here to Doomsday (the one that follows the
one on which the sky finishes falling!) and if the body is at fault, the
glaze will craze.
And--I kid you not--suppliers do make mistakes when mixing their clay
bodies--not often, but it does happen, AND there have been cases where a
material was wrongly labeled, or put in the wrong container when it came to
the studio...so you think you are using Calcium Carb, and instead you are
ladling out Frit 3134!
And, in passing....how totally uncharming it is when people suggest others
learn to read, are blockheads etc..All it establishes, and that's for sure,
is that some people have terrible manners.
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
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