Mel Jacobson on fri 20 feb 98
idea no 1,598
i mix bentonite with water and blend in an old blender.
(gotta get those at thrift stores or garage sales...and esp. electric
fry pans for wax)
i store several batches in a nice clean plastic container with a tight
cover...
whenever i need to add some to a sinking glaze...just take a
quarter cup and add to the mixed glaze.
mixes like a dream.
if any of you have ever tried to add dry to a glaze...forget it.
lumps for 28 years.
i use a small amount in most glazes...esp, raku, and temmoku.
mel.mn
p.s. i am on some kind of roll. been cleaning out corners of my
studio, stacking old paintings, breaking more pots.
sorting things.
filling up all of my plastic garbage cans with fresh glaze stuff, making
glaze..........
threw out 125 old plastic pails and buckets...cracks, broken handles.
god i hate those things....yet we keep them.
i found about 803 pieces of that shipping peanuts stuff....it just
lives in corners of the studio. (it breeds with moths you know)
(sorry veronica, did not mean to be crude.)
well, back to washing buckets...just ran in to write this letter....
was adding wet bentonite to a new temooooko.
or as that texas woman with red hair says `tem a koo. (D.R.)
http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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