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a simple raku clear glaze.

updated tue 27 apr 10

 

Bill Merrill on mon 26 apr 10


I started a load of laundry today and put in my regular soap and some 20
Mule Team Borax. The borax is very fine in size. I was reminded of a
workshop Paul Soldner gave in Torrington, Wyoming in '68.

He built a simple corbelled arch kiln from scrap house brick and had a
weed burner propane set-up for the heat source. The glaze he used was
50% 20 Mule Team Borax and 50% colemanite. It produced a clear white
Raku on a white body and a pinkish color when he glazed over a red
bodied clay.

=3D20

I have a cone 016 glaze that is similar to the old Japanese Raku pieces
if anyone would like the glaze. Let me know and I'll post the glaze.

=3D20

Bill bmerrill@pencol.edu

Johanna DeMaine on mon 26 apr 10


Hi Bill
I would be interested in having this glaze posted.

Johanna

Johanna DeMaine
http://johanna.demaine.org
http://overglaze.info

Lee Love on mon 26 apr 10


Here is my favorite raku glaze. It is the closest lowfire glaze I
know of to Shino:

Made using Japanese materials:

http://public.fotki.com/togeika/science/tak1.html

Tak Fat White Raku Glaze Comments: A Kurt Wild glaze, it came from a
student named Takahara.

Fat white, big crackle Give it time to cool just a second/deep reduction

frit 3134 100
silica 6 epk 10
tin or opax 10 If you want a clear leave this out. Bentonite will help
suspend it.

Takes copper well: blue/green to red/blood . Variations -- Takes
copper well Leave out tin for clear
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/

=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi