Jenn K on wed 28 oct 09
Hey all... New to clayart. Wow...what a mass of information!
I'm making some Christmas ornaments from a thin rolled slab and cookie=3D20=
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cutters. I'm using a cone 6 porcelain and I've bisque fired them to cone =
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04.
So this is my first time working with porcelain and I've read that it get=
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soft and sags when fired. I want to glaze both sides. I was planning on=3D2=
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hanging them from a bead rod during the glaze fire. You think that'll wor=
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k?
Any suggestions or input would be great appreciated.
:)
William & Susan Schran User on thu 29 oct 09
On 10/28/09 11:14 PM, "Jenn K" wrote:
> I'm making some Christmas ornaments from a thin rolled slab and cookie
> cutters. I'm using a cone 6 porcelain and I've bisque fired them to cone =
04.
>
> So this is my first time working with porcelain and I've read that it get=
s
> very
> soft and sags when fired. I want to glaze both sides. I was planning on
> hanging them from a bead rod during the glaze fire. You think that'll wor=
k?
>
> Any suggestions or input would be great appreciated.
If you don't put too many/too much weight on the rod it may work.
Need to be certain no glaze remains in the hole where rod is inserted.
Alternative - Glaze "front" with ^6 glaze and fire. Apply low fire glaze to
back, place on metal pointed stilts, "front" down and fire to the low-fire
glaze temperature, usually ^06, which could be in your bisque firing.
Bill
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William "Bill" Schran
wschran@cox.net
wschran@nvcc.edu
http://www.creativecreekartisans.com
Don Goodrich on thu 29 oct 09
Hi Jenn, welcome to the zoo!
Hanging ornaments from a bead rod has worked for me.
Not everything that's called porcelain is the same, and whether yours
gets soft and sags when fired to ^6 will be something you'll have to find=
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by experiment.
If there's a tendency for either the ornaments or the rod to bend when=
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make sure the pieces are spaced to they won't lean into each other.=3D20
You might also dip your bead rod in kiln wash to help in removing anythin=
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that sticks.
Good luck,
Don Goodrich
http://dongoodrichpottery.com/
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 Jenn K wrote, in part:
>So this is my first time working with porcelain and I've read that it ge=
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ts very=3D20
>soft and sags when fired. I want to glaze both sides. I was planning on=3D=
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>hanging them from a bead rod during the glaze fire. You think that'll wo=
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rk?
Cindy Eve on fri 30 oct 09
Hi Jenn,
I have fired quite a few porcelain ornaments this way. If the ornaments =
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very big or heavy only put two or three on a bar. The bar will sag from =
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A fast and easy way to make sure the holes are clean is to run a dampened=
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pipe cleaner through the holes prior to placing them on the bead bar.
I find that coffee stir sticks work great for punching holes in beads and=
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ornaments. They are the right size for my bead bars. I also use the sti=
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for glazing beads and smaller ornaments. I can cut them and place the be=
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or ornaments on one end and stick the other end in a piece of clay. I ca=
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glaze quite a few beads/ornaments this way and just put the wad of clay o=
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the table to dry without mucking the glaze.
Stilts work pretty well for firing ornaments also.=3D20=3D20
Good luck!
Cindy
Eve Pottery
Great Falls, MT
http://www.4co.us/EVE-Pottery.html
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