Joyce Lee on fri 8 jan 99
Just opened the kiln of plates, as well as other pots, sprinkled,
sprayed with ilmenite, ceramic rutile and soda ash......terrible...won't
look better with time, as I agree many pots do. The demented ilmentite
is all glopped into little fat circles. No sign of the soda ash or the
rutile. On top of that (literally) a post fell bringing a shelf
partially down, just enough to ruin the copper reds...the ones not on
the bottom...those ran... ^11 down on bottom shelf, ^10 at 9 o'clock on
top. Shinos look great...not like any other load I've fired from the
same bucket, but very fine nevertheless. The midnight blue (June's, I
think) looks fine on red and brown clays...happy with that. Actually,
(looking for the pony, of course) the "bad" stuff isn't as "bad" as the
"bad" used to be...and the "good" is better. Is that progress?
Joyce
In the Mojave going out to rescue once again the big, new Christmas
puppy (named Honey) from the next place over, who somehow got onto the
property and can't find her way out...so she says...
David Hendley on sat 9 jan 99
Joyce, a little ilmenite goes a long way.
My spotted white glazes uses .17% ilmenite.
No way could you sprinkle it sparingly enough to not get
big ugly glops.
But, no guts, no glory; so good for you for trying
lots of things.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
At 11:41 AM 1/8/99 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Just opened the kiln of plates, as well as other pots, sprinkled,
>sprayed with ilmenite, ceramic rutile and soda ash......terrible...won't
>look better with time, as I agree many pots do. The demented ilmentite
>is all glopped into little fat circles. No sign of the soda ash or the
>rutile. On top of that (literally) a post fell bringing a shelf
>partially down, just enough to ruin the copper reds...the ones not on
>the bottom...those ran... ^11 down on bottom shelf, ^10 at 9 o'clock on
>top. Shinos look great...not like any other load I've fired from the
>same bucket, but very fine nevertheless. The midnight blue (June's, I
>think) looks fine on red and brown clays...happy with that. Actually,
>(looking for the pony, of course) the "bad" stuff isn't as "bad" as the
>"bad" used to be...and the "good" is better. Is that progress?
>
>Joyce
>In the Mojave going out to rescue once again the big, new Christmas
>puppy (named Honey) from the next place over, who somehow got onto the
>property and can't find her way out...so she says...
>
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