Lynne Antone on sat 21 nov 98
I have been given enough unglazed "quarry tiles" to make a kitchen countertop.
I have gotten a couple of different guesstimates as to what temperature I can
fire these. I don't have enough of them to do much testing on.
I usually work in cone 6 oxidation and am wondering if I can use these glazes
or whether I will have to fire lower. I plan to do some underglaze patterns
and cover them with a satiny/matt clear.
Thanks,
Lynne Antone
Olympia WA
John and Sandy Ayres on mon 23 nov 98
Several years ago, I helped my neighbor with a countertop using small
terra cotta (octagonal) tiles from france. We tried to glaze them with
a low fire satin matt and the result was a cloudy appearance. I tried
many times and was told by the glaze supplier that a satin matt at that
temp (04) would always be cloudy. I did some research and she ended up
simply paste waxing the tiles (I called Johnson and Johnson first).
They have to do it maybe once a year or so. You could decorate the
tiles with an underglaze and then wax them if no one has another idea.
Let us know how they turn out.
Lynne Antone wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I have been given enough unglazed "quarry tiles" to make a kitchen countertop.
> I have gotten a couple of different guesstimates as to what temperature I can
> fire these. I don't have enough of them to do much testing on.
>
> I usually work in cone 6 oxidation and am wondering if I can use these glazes
> or whether I will have to fire lower. I plan to do some underglaze patterns
> and cover them with a satiny/matt clear.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynne Antone
> Olympia WA
eden@sover.net on thu 26 nov 98
Hi Lynn,
Surely you have a piece to put in your cone 6 kiln on a scrap of shelf and
see what it does. They very well could be low fire.
Eleanora
At 09:54 AM 11/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I have been given enough unglazed "quarry tiles" to make a kitchen
countertop.
>I have gotten a couple of different guesstimates as to what temperature I can
>fire these. I don't have enough of them to do much testing on.
>
>I usually work in cone 6 oxidation and am wondering if I can use these glazes
>or whether I will have to fire lower. I plan to do some underglaze patterns
>and cover them with a satiny/matt clear.
>
>Thanks,
>Lynne Antone
>Olympia WA
>
Lynne Antone on wed 15 aug 01
Greetings, all. Have been off list for a couple of months, hope you all have
been behaving.
I was given a large number of quarry tiles and am getting ready to use them
for a kitchen countertop project. I would like to put a satin clear glaze
over them and save my design work for the backsplash. Anyway, I can't seem to
find anyone who knows what cone Quarry Tiles are fired to. Once I know this,
I can test some of the clear glazes from the databases. Any ideas or places
to research?
Thanks,
Lynne Antone
Beaver Creek Arts
Olympia WA USA
Paul Lewing on thu 16 aug 01
on 8/15/01 10:22 PM, Lynne Antone at Lynspots@AOL.COM wrote:
> Anyway, I can't seem to
> find anyone who knows what cone Quarry Tiles are fired to.
That's because there is no real definition of "quarry tile", or a standard
for what makes a quarry tile. Most people would agree that it's an unglazed
red clay tile, but that's it. There are dozens of manufacturers of that
stuff out there, all over the world, all using different clays and different
kilns, firing to different temperatures on different schedules, making the
tile out of different clays. And none of them will tell you much about how
they make their tile.
So there is no other way than just trying it out. Most commercial tile for
all applications and of all compositions is fired somewhere between about
cone 06 and cone 3. If it's supposed to be used for floor tile, it's
probably fired to somewhere in the high end of that range, maybe even a bit
higher.
So if it were me, I'd try some at cone 04 and some at cone 1. And it's
possible that they may change color when refired, too.
Test, test, test. Good luck.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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