Peter Atwood on tue 1 jun 99
Dear Susan,
What you are smelling is the bone ash in your glaze. I have a similar iron
saturate glaze with 13% bone ash and it stinks to high heaven. Looks great
though,
--Peter Atwood
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An interesting Glaze situation...we are using a glaze out of Val Cushing's
Handbook called Tomato Red...cone 10 reduction....
The glaze itself is beautiful, and very trouble free....the only problem is
=
that
it smells like a new hair permanent=21=21 We mix in 5 gallon buckets that =
have
lids....uff da what a smell...
the formula is as follows:
Kona F-4 Spar......45 gm
Whiting................ 7 gm
Bone Ash............ 11 gm
Flint.................... 24 gm
Grolleg (we use
EPK)................ 7 gm
Magnesium
Carbonate....... 6 gm
Red Iron Oxide.... 8 gm
Bentonite........... 2 gm
Anyone got any ideas on what is causing the smell??
Th
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Chris Schafale on wed 2 jun 99
I've been using bone ash in my iron red glazes, and don't notice any
smell to speak of -- maybe this means I am actually using synthetic
bone ash??
Chris
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Dear Susan,
>
> What you are smelling is the bone ash in your glaze. I have a similar iron
> saturate glaze with 13% bone ash and it stinks to high heaven. Looks great
> though,
>
> --Peter Atwood
>
> you wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> An interesting Glaze situation...we are using a glaze out of Val Cushing's
> Handbook called Tomato Red...cone 10 reduction....
> The glaze itself is beautiful, and very trouble free....the only problem is
> =
> that
> it smells like a new hair permanent=21=21 We mix in 5 gallon buckets that =
> have
> lids....uff da what a smell...
>
> the formula is as follows:
> Kona F-4 Spar......45 gm
> Whiting................ 7 gm
> Bone Ash............ 11 gm
> Flint.................... 24 gm
> Grolleg (we use
> EPK)................ 7 gm
> Magnesium
> Carbonate....... 6 gm
> Red Iron Oxide.... 8 gm
> Bentonite........... 2 gm
>
> Anyone got any ideas on what is causing the smell??
>
> Th
>
>
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pam easley on tue 2 jan 01
I may be coming in to this on the late side……..I think we’ve been through
this before….. has anyone suggested just dumping a little Clorox or
reasonable facsimile into the glaze bucket? I made the disastrous mistake
onetime, while teaching for a community rec. program, of substituting some
kind of bleach enhanced cleaning stuff from the janitor’s closet. Didn’t
have any straight bleach, and figured, what the heck, it’s got bleach in it,
it’ll kill the little buggers. Welllllll, it may have had bleach, and it
probably killed the buggers, but it also had soap, and we had the sudsiest
glaze this side of the Rockies. Didn’t smell bad anymore, however. Just
looked a little on the weird side coming out of the dip. Fired okay, though.
Pam, in Seattle, where it was in the mid 50’s today. Who says it rains all
the time here?? Warm for us this time of year. And dry and clearish – even
saw Mt. Rainier for a minute while going across the bridge this afternoon.
Now, THAT’S a treat, even for an old native, like me.
Llewellyn Kouba on wed 3 jan 01
RE: Smelly Glazes. Smells in glazes don't seem to be bad to me even at
their worse. I open jars of iron oxide mixes that get pretty putrid but
NONE can compare to the last time I mixed a double batch of porcelain and
had read somewhere on Clayart to add Glycerin to the batch. Now that
combination with (and vegumm) made for a lethal batch. Upon aging the
blocks I cut into the beautiful white porcelain and found the entire
insides of the clay block a medium silvery grey....like cheese sort of but
with a white outside coat. Now the porcelain throws ok but you would not
imagine the smell. Worse than any sewer drain could be. It turns white of
course when it oxidizes to the air as it dries but spoils the fun of
working in the
white luscious medium that it is supposed to be. It is one thing to have
bad smells in glazes but quite another to play with that experience on the
wheel when the tactile think is supposed to be enjoyable etc. I don't know
how lethal the clay mix it is for me? and am using it up but will never
mix that deadly combo ever again. Any helps here for how to get rid of an
entire sewage system and yet still have live bacteria in the clay? I guess
it shows you shouldn't believe everything you read on Clayart.
Llewellyn Kouba
Abbey Pottery
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