C Redding on fri 20 feb 98
Greetings Clayarters! I was looking through our university's ceramics
supply room and I stumbled upon an unopened can of diamond dust made by
Dick Blick company. Does anyone know the usage of this medium. I asked
the prof and he didn't seem to know. Is it like a luster or do you use it
like the glass in the bottom of the pot. I opened the container and it
looks like specks of styrofoam that was sanded off (if the description of
the material was needed...)
Any response would be appreciated...
thanks!
cookie
cr7696@ark.ship.edu
Timothy Dean Malm on sat 21 feb 98
Greetings from Seattle: As an occassional stone sculptor, This dust can be
used as an abrassive to achieve a high polish to the surface of the stone
sculpture.X
Cindy on sat 21 feb 98
Cookie,
I believe diamond dust is used as a sanding/polishing medium. Others will
doubtless provide more complete information on this than I can, but there's
what I know, for what it's worth. ;)
Cindy Strnad
Earthen Vessels
Custer, SD
USA http://blackhills-info.com/a/cindys/menu.htm
Teri Seeley on sun 22 feb 98
Diamond dust is a crystalline form of the element carbon. Diamond is
very hard (one of the hardest substances known) and is useful for
cutting
and polishing other materials. However it is still carbon. The latter
readily combines with oxygen to form CO2 when heated to an incandescent
(glowing) state and hence would likely evaporate in the firing. It
might be a useful glaze ingredient for local reduction in oxygen
rich environments. A year or so back someone on Clayart gave away a
supply
of it to respondents who came up with creative uses for it. You might
check the Clayart Archives for suggested ceramics related uses.
Bill
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