C. A. Sanger on mon 15 mar 99
I've been following the long, sometimes tortuous, thread on glaze calc.
My new studio is nearly done, and I have a larder stocked with all new
chemicals. I'll be using clay and chemicals from the same clay
manufacturer/supplier as my school did/does. I figured I could probably
use the same glaze recipes I used there, with some occasional need for
adjustment. Now I wonder if I'd be better off biting the bullet and
doing massive triaxial blends first, and just formulate my own base
glazes and forget using the recipes I have. If I have to test anyway,
would that be more useful/logical?
C. A. Sanger
Kansas, USA
Joy Holdread on tue 16 mar 99
In a message dated 3/15/99 7:19:25 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
casanger@webtv.net writes:
> I'll be using clay and chemicals from the same clay
> manufacturer/supplier as my school did/does. I figured I could probably
> use the same glaze recipes I used there, with some occasional need for
> adjustment. Now I wonder if I'd be better off biting the bullet and
> doing massive triaxial blends first, and just formulate my own base
> glazes and forget using the recipes I have. If I have to test anyway,
> would that be more useful/logical?
>
> C. A. Sanger
> Kansas, US
C. A.
What do you want? Were you wanting to use the school recipes because you love
them or because you wanted to avoid massive testing. You'll no doubt want to
test with your own kiln & chemicals anyway developing your own glazes seems
like a good idea. For a while here in AZ I could tell which university people
studied at by their glazes, perhaps you want to develop your own signature
glazes.
Joy in Tucson a bit red faced after reading my sleepless posts yesterday &
realizing I wasn't as awake with the written word as I thought.
mgsmith on tue 16 mar 99
Here are some questions. Answering them will smooth your way to a decision
between learning or copying.
-Could the propose of investigation be to invest?
-DO I want to experience the identities of clay materials.
-DO I care why glaze elements are partnered on the periodic table.
-DO I want to discover how refractors support one another in high
temperatures.
-DO I care how they full fill one another.
- DO I want to study their dependence on each other.
- DO I want make friends with an oxide?
-DO I want to see it's elegance; witness it's shy character and bold
independence, it's snooty indifference and it's passionate desire. Would I
like playing with it's strength and teasing it's weakness?
Coarse you could just copy the work of the masters? They did what they
did in demonstration of the principles of their discoveries, or did they
"put in their thumb and pull out a plum and say what a good boy am I"?
I'll tell you what my business manage told me, " if you want to win an
award you have to keep the rules of the contest: the runner just out of the
starting blocks doesn't cut across the field and present himself at the
finnish line."
Miles G. Smith
http://home1.gte.net/mgsmith/index.htm
C. A. Sanger wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I've been following the long, sometimes tortuous, thread on glaze calc.
> My new studio is nearly done, and I have a larder stocked with all new
> chemicals. I'll be using clay and chemicals from the same clay
> manufacturer/supplier as my school did/does. I figured I could probably
> use the same glaze recipes I used there, with some occasional need for
> adjustment. Now I wonder if I'd be better off biting the bullet and
> doing massive triaxial blends first, and just formulate my own base
> glazes and forget using the recipes I have. If I have to test anyway,
> would that be more useful/logical?
>
> C. A. Sanger
> Kansas, USA
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