David Woof on sat 6 feb 10
Let's not freak out!!! but we are still using Lead if we use a lead frit w=
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hich is raw lead fritted with silica and so makes it safer to handle when w=
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eighing=3D2C mixing=3D2C and applying as a glaze. But what happens to that =
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rn "safe" fritted lead glaze while it is being fired to temperature and spe=
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wing fumes throughout the kiln and the outside environment=3D2C including t=
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Or have you considered that a lead glaze made the old way=3D2C by combining=
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aw lead and silica in a glaze formulation=3D2C is also in a "fritted" state=
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hen the fired glaze is cooled and removed from the kiln?=3D20
Granted=3D2C we can formulate glazes that leach lead within "acceptable" li=
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ts=3D2C but what is the substantial difference between old and new except s=
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er handling while mixing and applying???
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For the record: I don't use lead in any form=3D2C fritted or otherwise. H=
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s=3D2C and a prevailing scotoma that prevents so many otherwise bright peop=
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er and deeper things beyond. Lead won't be what kills you unless you star=
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David Woof
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9b. Re: Old glazes
Posted by: "Randall Moody" randall.moody@GMAIL.COM=3D20
Date: Mon Feb 1=3D2C 2010 4:59 pm ((PST))
On Mon=3D2C Feb 1=3D2C 2010 at 1:40 PM=3D2C lili krakowski link.n=3D
et>wrote:
> The one repeated warning about old glazes=3D2C as well as stains=3D2C is =
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> contain ingredients--such as lead=3D2C and antimony-- which we no longer =
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> Lili Krakowski
> Be of good courage
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How old are we talking?!? When was the last year that glazes contained lead
and antimony? I seriously doubt that the average glaze on the shelf of your
local potter supply=3D2C even if considered "out of date" is old enough to
contain lead or antimony without a very obvious warning on the label.
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Randall in Atlanta
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May Luk on sun 7 feb 10
Hello all:
I just finished watching the DVD "Pottery of the Ethnic Minorities in
Southwest China". Some uncivilized potters still make glaze from
stir-frying lead bits to get glaze and dip their bare hands in the
glaze and they are very OLD. (I doubt it that they started their
business a few years back, poor potters in rural China got to be
lifers)
Then I read that fear of disease, including syphilis and the Black
Death put water out of fashion. Nobody bathed or washed a few hundred
years ago in Old Europe. If you take a bath, you might die. Imagine
that!
Lead would never be back as glaze ingredient in this country, but fear
is always in fashion.
"I watch a lot of Tru TV" May
Brooklyn NY
Once again, as you all know, any poisoning is about how long and how
much exposure.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Woof wrote:
> For the record: =3DA0I don't use lead in any form, fritted or otherwise. =
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ciers, and a prevailing scotoma that prevents so many otherwise bright peop=
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le, mired in divisive religious and partisan thought, from seeing the wider=
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and deeper things beyond. =3DA0 Lead won't be what kills you unless you st=
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t shooting each other.
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> David Woof
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