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simple cone 6 glazes (was re: chemical choices)

updated wed 14 jan 98

 

pedresel@3-cities.com on mon 12 jan 98

I quite like this one from Richard Zakin's Electric Kiln Ceramics

Z. New Tyler Amber

Redart Clay 60
Gerstley Borate 20
Ferro 3110 20

:cone 6 oxidation
:color deep brown with light spots (not many light spots for me)
:surface shiney, translucent
:durable

Round numbers, too!

-- Evan in eastern Washington State where it's gray and might snow.


At 06:10 PM 1-10-98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>One more point on this - if you need (for instance) magnesium and whiting,
>why NOT use dolomite? Weighing out ingredients is tedious enough, why go
>for 6 if you can get it for 3? I am pursuing, in idle moments, a kind of
>holy grail of really simple and safe (but gorgeous, of course!) ^6 ox.
>glazes, with no more than 3 or 4 ingredients.

snip...

>- Veronica

Ron Roy on tue 13 jan 98

Oh goody - a durable glaze - I see it has two variable materials in it
though - changes can be expected - but it will always be a durable glaze.

Expansion is pretty good too - but it will probably craze on cone 6
procelains if they are close to vitrification.

So nice to be able to say something positve - I'm guess I'm begining to
have a grinch complex.


>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I quite like this one from Richard Zakin's Electric Kiln Ceramics
>
>Z. New Tyler Amber
>
>Redart Clay 60
>Gerstley Borate 20
>Ferro 3110 20
>
>:cone 6 oxidation
>:color deep brown with light spots (not many light spots for me)
>:surface shiney, translucent
>:durable


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