Dannon Rhudy on sat 9 may 98
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I think that fooling with scraps of old glazes is a waste of time
and,
if you add things to it to try to change it, money....
Maybe one time out of 20 it will look and perform OK,
..... Meanwhile, you've put a lousy glaze (either technically,
aestheticlly, or both) on countless pots.....
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I agree with David on this. It is seldom worth it to fool with
bits of glaze leftovers, unless one has limitless time and a lot
of curiosity about brown...which, mixed together, such scraps
eventually end up being.
We used to keep a large (20 or 30 gallon) barrel of leftover
glazes in undergrad ceramics class. The barrel was labeled
"surprise" but it never was one. It was always a darker or
lighter shade of brown, more or less muddy, more or less prone
to various faults. No one ever used it except first semester
students who did not yet know that it was just - brown stuff
that the teacher felt obliged to try to use up.
Never did get used up, of course.
Dannon Rhudy
potter@koyote.com
The best way to dispose of the scraps is to just add them to the
mix the next
time you make clay. A couple of cups of glaze will have no effect
on a
hundred pound batch of clay.
Safely, cheaply, and easily disposed of.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
At 07:53 AM 5/6/98 EDT, you wrote:
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>Yo folks, what do the rest of you do with scraps of old glazes,
or just old
>glazes you're tired of, besides dispose of properly, donate or
ignore, I vant
>experiments, specific details, muses on tinkering...
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