Donn Buchfinck on fri 14 aug 09
#1 don't give your petatlite to ANYONE. Where they get it is in Africa and
there is ethnic strife and corning is buying all it can and driving the
price up, that is what I was told.
#2
Rietzs m-2 green satin matt cone 10
Neph sye 70
whiting 5
gert borate 2
petalite 15
om4 ball clay 8
cobalt carb 1
rutile 1
This it is black when thin but thicker it is a great moss green, breaks
over stamps and edges and slip.
this glaze rocks until it gets down to about a third of a five gallon
bucket and then it starts to get weird and the surface of the glaze will ge=
t
grainy and rough.
A hot ten and it will move and start to glass out.
You can also use the base for other colorants, just run some tests.
aardvark sells it premixed as a tom coleman glaze
it is the TC106 on the website
_http://aardvarkclay.com/catalog_pages/coleman_glazes.html_ (http://aardvar=
kclay.com/catalog_pages/coleman_glazes.html)
Frankly most of those glazes are standard glazes that have been around for
a long time.
You would need 22# of the mix for a five gallon bucket
I'm pretty sure you could mix it up yourself for less than $60 for 20
pounds of dry mix that aardvark will charge you.
Why we call it Reitz M-2 if coleman made it I don't know.
It is also in my Val Cushing glaze notebook called Reitz Green Matt
Donn Buchfinck
_www.donnbuchfinck.com_ (http://www.donnbuchfinck.com)
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Ron Roy on tue 18 aug 09
Petalite is just another source of lithium - and it only has about 4% so
it's not the best bargain - Spodumene will work just fine and it has about
7% - if anyone needs to have a glaze converted from using Petalite to
Spodumene I can do that - takes about 5 minutes.
RR
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Donn Buchfinck wrote:
> #1 don't give your petatlite to ANYONE. Where they get it is in Africa an=
d
> there is ethnic strife and corning is buying all it can and driving the
> price up, that is what I was told.
>
> #2
> Rietzs m-2 green satin matt cone 10
>
> Neph sye 70
> whiting 5
> gert borate 2
> petalite 15
> om4 ball clay 8
>
> cobalt carb 1
> rutile 1
>
> This it is black when thin but thicker it is a great moss green, breaks
> over stamps and edges and slip.
> this glaze rocks until it gets down to about a third of a five gallon
> bucket and then it starts to get weird and the surface of the glaze will
> get
> grainy and rough.
> A hot ten and it will move and start to glass out.
>
> You can also use the base for other colorants, just run some tests.
>
> aardvark sells it premixed as a tom coleman glaze
> it is the TC106 on the website
> _http://aardvarkclay.com/catalog_pages/coleman_glazes.html_ (
> http://aardvarkclay.com/catalog_pages/coleman_glazes.html)
>
> Frankly most of those glazes are standard glazes that have been around fo=
r
> a long time.
> You would need 22# of the mix for a five gallon bucket
> I'm pretty sure you could mix it up yourself for less than $60 for 20
> pounds of dry mix that aardvark will charge you.
>
> Why we call it Reitz M-2 if coleman made it I don't know.
> It is also in my Val Cushing glaze notebook called Reitz Green Matt
>
> Donn Buchfinck
> _www.donnbuchfinck.com_ (http://www.donnbuchfinck.com)
> _www.youtube.com/bayareaartist999_
> (http://www.youtube.com/bayareaartist999)
>
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Ron Roy
15084 Little Lake Road
Brighton, Ontario, Canada
K0K 1H0
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