Russel Fouts on fri 22 jan 10
>> Tom Coleman told me that he hasn't scored in years. <<
Oh, that's so sad. ;0)
If you know your materials well, you'll know what's possible. The clay =3D
I've used for the past 15 years doesn't need scoring, at least not when =3D
I use it.
I just use a very fine smear of vinegar, any kind.
If you want to make 'Crazy Glue' for pottery, mix a little paper pulp =3D
with some clay and vinegar, no water. I use it fairly thick. The receipe =
=3D
might have come from Vince.
Don't plan on ever moving anything you stuck on with this glue. It ain't =
=3D
gonna and will probably tear the pot apart. ;0)
As for using waste oil, we did that in school back in the late 70's =3D
based on Dennis Parks' book. It's a terrific fuel. My favorite. We used =3D
'harrow' burners built from pipe pieces powered by thrift shop vacuum =3D
cleaners on blow. Vince is right about the noise but boy did they go!!
Hank's burner sounds like genius. Wish we'd had a chance to try that.
Russel
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Vince Pitelka on sat 23 jan 10
Russel Fouts wrote:
"If you want to make 'Crazy Glue' for pottery, mix a little paper pulp with
some clay and vinegar, no water. I use it fairly thick. The recipe might
have come from Vince."
Hi Russel. It might have come from me, because we do use a paper-clay
slurry like this for the really difficult repairs. You can attach bone-dry
to bone-dry very successfully with this mixture, or you can attach
leather-hard to bone-dry.
I always use the same claybody as the one I am repairing. To elaborate on
what you said above, when we make paper clay slurry, we make toilet paper
pulp in a blender, drain it, and then mix it with an equal volume of
powdered claybody, and enough vinegar to get the desired slurry consistency=
.
This stuff is amazing. I hide it from my intro class for the first part of
the semester, because I don't want them wasting their time repairing every
little dry clay thing that breaks, but later in the semester when they are
doing some pretty elaborate and precarious stuff, I get it out and teach
them how to use it. When making a repair on bone-dry, I always wet the
mating surfaces with pure vinegar, rough them up a bit, and then add the
paper clay slurry and make the join.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
Marcia Selsor on sun 24 jan 10
To add to this,
I have repaired bisqued broken pieces from a student pitcher with brken =3D
hande to the bottom od a column the partially blew.
I used "spooge" the old recipe from clay art that had vinegar, cone =3D
syrup, dried powder claybody and I added toilet paper pulp. WHen using =3D
it to reattach bisque pieces, both surfaces must be well dampened and =3D
attached quickly.
Marcia Selsor
On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> Russel Fouts wrote:
> "If you want to make 'Crazy Glue' for pottery, mix a little paper pulp =
=3D
with
> some clay and vinegar, no water. I use it fairly thick. The recipe =3D
might
> have come from Vince."
>=3D20
> Hi Russel. It might have come from me, because we do use a paper-clay
> slurry like this for the really difficult repairs. You can attach =3D
bone-dry
> to bone-dry very successfully with this mixture, or you can attach
> leather-hard to bone-dry.
>=3D20
> I always use the same claybody as the one I am repairing. To =3D
elaborate on
> what you said above, when we make paper clay slurry, we make toilet =3D
paper
> pulp in a blender, drain it, and then mix it with an equal volume of
> powdered claybody, and enough vinegar to get the desired slurry =3D
consistency.
> This stuff is amazing. I hide it from my intro class for the first =3D
part of
> the semester, because I don't want them wasting their time repairing =3D
every
> little dry clay thing that breaks, but later in the semester when they =
=3D
are
> doing some pretty elaborate and precarious stuff, I get it out and =3D
teach
> them how to use it. When making a repair on bone-dry, I always wet =3D
the
> mating surfaces with pure vinegar, rough them up a bit, and then add =3D
the
> paper clay slurry and make the join.
> - Vince
>=3D20
> Vince Pitelka
> Appalachian Center for Craft
> Tennessee Tech University
> vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
> http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
>=3D20
Marcia Selsor
http://www.marciaselsor.com
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