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a compendium of naked raku slips and glazes

updated sun 10 apr 11

 

Lynne Berman on fri 8 apr 11


NAKED RAKU

Resist Slips and Glazes To Go With Them



David Roberts resist slip

(EPK)Kaolin 3 parts by volume

Flint 2 parts by volume

Copper Oxide 10% (or none)



use with the following glaze

Raku Crackle Glaze

(by David Roberts in Sawdust Firing)

High Alkali Frit 45%

Soft Borax Frit 45%

China Clay 10%



Fire to 1562-1652F.



Glaze Marie-Claire in the Netherlands

90% Borax frit

10% kaolin

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Resist Slip Marie-Claire

2 parts kaolin

3 parts flint or silica



works with



Glaze

Frit 3110 65%

Gerstley Borate 35%



don't use this glaze with the Roberts slip

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Jacobsons' Slip and Glaze

Slip

40% Lincoln 60 fireclay

30% 6-Tile clay

20% Ione 412 Grog

10% Custer feldspar



or this variation used without glaze



Chip n Slip

40% Hawthrone Bone or A-P Fireclay

30% Kaolin

20% Pyrotol (or grog)

10% Custer Feldspar





Glaze

60% Ferro Frit 3110

40% Gerstley Borate



Bisque to Cone 012-010

Fire to cone 014 (1540F.), smoke, water-quench, peel

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Gordon Hutchens Slip

used without glaze



Fire Clay 50

EPK 30

Alumina Hydrate 20 (or 10% for easier removal)









Marci Masterson

(From Sharon in Fort Worth)

#1

Fire Clay 40 grams

#6 Tile 30 grams

Custer 10 grams

Grog (28 mesh) 20 grams



#3

Fire Clay 50 grams

EPK 40 grams

Soda Spar 10 grams

(Add 5 - 15% grog)



#4

Fire Clay 50 grams

EPK 35 grams

Nepheline Syenite 15 grams

(add 5% grog - no more)



#5

Fire Clay 45 grams

EPK 35 grams

Flint 10 grams

Nepheline Syenite 10 grams

(add 5% Grog - no more)



Notes:

(can't find #2)

#1. If fire clay is gritty, don't need grog (or need less grog).
Interesting small

design w/o grog. Marcie uses 10% grog. Apply one thinned coat
crubbed. Removes very

easily.



#3. Similar to #1. Marcie uses 10% grog.



#4. Semi straight edge design. Applies 4 even coats. Thinner and
smaller design.

Removed easily.



#5. Fairly straight edge design (almost geometric). Hard to remove.
Apply like #4.

Used w/o grog is good but small.



Additional notes: Every thing with talc "fused". Try other fluxes;
try other clays.

Almost all recipes will work with 25-50% raku claybody w/grog or
sand. Mix slip to a

consistency where it will just "pour" not "plop" off a spoon.



The following is the glaze recipe which is applied over the slip:



70% Ferro Frit 3110

30% Gerstly Borate



Mix "milk" thin and apply thinly.