Steve Mills on thu 14 may 09
As an aside to this, CMC will go "off" quickly anyway unless you add a smal=
l percentage of disinfectant to it.
Steve
Bath
UK
--- On Wed, 5/13/09, Hank Murrow wrote:
From: Hank Murrow
Subject: Re: VgumT,CMC,Bentonite
To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 11:22 PM
On May 13, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Jacqueline Miller wrote:
> The discussions of mixing CMC has brought up a question for me of when
> and why would you use CMC vs VgumT vs bentonite. Are they
> interchangeable or do they have specific qualities for specific
> applications?
Dear Jacqueline;
If you store your glazes in a solarium as I do, you learn to avoid
CMC and Vee Gum Cer because they will rapidly spoil in the bucket and
stink. That leaves bentonite and Vee Gum T. I prefer to use Vee Gum T
in my glazes. I use more(1.5%) of it in my shinos than in other
glazes because I love the way it enhances the 'runs, drips, and
errors' That bring shinos alive. BTW, real bone ash will also spoil
if given enough light..... as in a solarium.
Cheers, Hank in Eugene
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