Dawn Kleinman on mon 6 jul 09
u to the list!
Thank you for sharing.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Miri Hardy wrote:
> Dear All:
> Last week I completed my first Cone 6 glaze testing. First, I'd like to
> send out my very sincere thanks to
> everyone who contributes to this list. As someone who is new to "full ti=
me
> potting" (though I've been
> dabbling in clay since 1992), the advice and information I've found in th=
e
> archives has been priceless.
>
> Obviously, in addition to spending hours searching the archives, actually
> being able to ask direct questions of
> list members is invaluable. Again, I thank list members who helped me
> interpret my first (slightly overfired)
> bisque firing results. Thanks to your feedback, I'm happy to report that
> my second bisque firing was a solid
> cone 04. More importantly, I felt so much more in control and had a bett=
er
> understanding of what I was
> looking for in interpreting cone activity. This new found knowledge (as
> well as some old posts in the archives
> regarding how to go about firing to the MC6G schedule for the first time =
in
> a new kiln: Thanks John H!) really
> helped me through my first glaze firing.
>
> But back to the glaze testing. I following MC6G firing guidelines to tes=
t
> a number of MC6Gs and some
> variations thereof on two clay bodies: Axner's version of B-Mix, Maccabb=
ee
> (Mix 5) and Standard's new white
> clay body, Standard 240. I mixed up the following glazes:
>
> Raw Sienna (1000 grams)
> Waterfall brown (200 grams)
> Bright Sky Blue (500 grams)
> Variegated Blue (500 grams)
> Licorice Black (500 grams)
> Glossy Base Glaze 2 (100 grams)
> Glossy Base Glaze 2 + 1% copper carbonate (200 grams)
> Glossy Base Glaze 2 + 3% copper carbonate (200 grams)
> Glossy Base Glaze 2 + 6% RIO + 4% Rutile (200 grams)
> High Calcium Semimatte Base 2 + 1% copper carbonate (200 grams)
> High Calcium Semimatte Base 2 + 0.5% copper carbonate, +0.5% cobalt
> carbonate (200 grams)
>
> All in all I was very pleased with my first efforts and invite those of y=
ou
> who are interested to visit my blog,
> where there is A LOT of detailed information about the testing as well as
> many images of the results.
>
> http://nickandmiri.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/glaze-testing-1-0/
>
>
> Thanks again and all the best,
>
> Miri in Puerto Rico
>
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