Laurel Carey on mon 16 feb 98
the blue glass from "arizona" ice tea, the ginseng flavor,
works well. i have had some interesting results with it
over white clay, with a green glaze next to it. the center
of the glass stayed clear blue, with crackle, and the edges
melted together with the blue. i thought it was pretty,
but the non-functional aspects of this deep crackle bothered
me and i didn't go any farther.
the guy at the recycling place saves out special bottles, some
just because, and some on request. good thing, the tea is pricy.
laurel (blue-loving philistine)
lacarey@ioa.com
mel jacobson on sun 11 dec 11
gina, i have been doing it for years.
kerry brooks has made a slab trivet for the
`science stores` with a window glass base.
works fine. she has sold them, many thousands
now...and, the idea came from my living room.
(i told her i want a 25 percent commission.) she
has hired 15 street people to do the simple pots. (that is how
you can work with the un-employed...give them a job, small
business, compassionate owner.)
all gas fired...can you imagine how many of those
things fit into her 50 cube car kiln? nice order.
(she has paid off all her debt, got a small house, and
a nice new car...all with trivets with glass bottoms.
she does not have issues with `art vs craft`...she makes
money with clay.
in fact, kerry is over booked for the coming year.
the rosen show has been good for kerry..her 24
inch platters with purple and green glaze sell like
corn dogs at the state fair.
kevin caufield makes all kinds of glass bottomed
bowls. just fine at cone 6. and, the copy cats
of kevin's pots are legend.
i make a flat bottomed pot with short re curved sides. i will fill
it with wine bottle shards, and it crackles like crazy.
i use the blue, green and clear bottles. folks call them
`contemplaytive viewing pots`.
i also have been filling the big cover knobs on
my funeral urns with blue glass.
fancy`.
the only issue i have with glass is that
small pieces of glass can shiver off, and
if that sticks into your tongue from a chip
dip bowl...well, folks get testy.
but, that seems to be a one in a thousand sort of thing.
i would not worry about it...no one else does.
there are enough non food ideas to let you make glass
bottomed pots for your lifetime.
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Url Krueger on sun 11 dec 11
I was in a store yesterday and noticed some commercial
slip cast dinner plates, saucers and coffee cups with a
blue green crackled glaze on them.
But on close inspection with my older eyes it did not appear
that the cracks actually breached the surface of the glaze.
How could this be???
I began to wonder if a second firing with a low-temp glaze
over top of the crackle glaze would seal the surface and not
craze.
The physics of this escape me at the moment but might
be something I'll test when I get the pottery put back together
again.
earl
usa
oregon
hillsboro
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