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will refiring smooth out bubbling glaze surface?

updated fri 19 jun 09

 

May Luk on thu 18 jun 09


Hello all;=3D0A=3D0AThe transparent glaze on my vases from this past firing=
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e out all bubbly. The glaze slop is a bit thick to start with (I glaze thes=
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e vases last, thinking I want to take good care to glaze them, but I was a =
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bit tired and I was losing focus, it was Sunday night 9 pm after a day of s=
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elling.) =3D0A=3D0AThe way I glaze the vase is that I hold both ends and ro=
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t in the glaze bath like corn on the cob taking in butter at KFC. The bubbl=
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es are worse where the glaze is overlapped - typical kind of bubbles when o=
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ne double dips.=3D0A=3D0ACan I smooth out the rough surface with re-firing?=
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on't need these to be perfect. They are vases (no close range viewing norma=
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lly) and I can flog them as seconds or use as givaways.=3D0A=3D0AThank you =
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dvance for your input.=3D0A=3D0AMay=3D0ABrooklyn NY=3D0A=3D0AP.S. Many than=
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e who sent in picts and advices on backyard pottery sheds. Very much apprec=
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iated.=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A