Robin Shufelt on thu 29 jul 99
Is anyone using a clay body called Rods Bod? If so do you have any glaze
recipes to share? I have been throwing Highwater's Helios porcelain and just
made this change to Rods Bod. I am in new territory with this toothy
stoneware. Send help.
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Betsy Wilding on sun 1 aug 99
Hi Robin, I just saw Rods Bod with a grey celadon, fired to cone 10
reduction and it was beautiful! I'm off to the clay supplier to get
that clay!
Betsy Wilding --- Silver Spring, MD
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Steve Dalton on sun 1 aug 99
I use Rods Bod. What cone do you fire to and what type of atmosphere? Even
what type of fuel? I use Rods Bod in my wood kiln, and would you believe
it's beautiful. Would you be interested in an ash glaze? Tenmoko? Etc?
Steve Dalton
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> From: Robin Shufelt
> To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: RE; Rods Bod-Need glazes and info
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:46:32 EDT
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>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Is anyone using a clay body called Rods Bod? If so do you have any glaze
>recipes to share? I have been throwing Highwater's Helios porcelain and
just
>made this change to Rods Bod. I am in new territory with this toothy
>stoneware. Send help.
>
>Freebirdpots@hotmail.com
>
>
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Bonita Cohn on sun 1 aug 99
Rod's Bod, fires at cone 10 reduction, to a medium toasty color. It's toothy
qualities are nice in the salt and anagama. Throwing with it is deceptively
easy. I had a lot of over-pulling, clay starving, too thin, and then
cracking situations. I prefer the Soldate 60 (Joe's recipe). The color is
similar. Any of studio pottery's greatest hits work well. Temmokus are nice.
Test with your porcelain glazes, and you will see a darker spottier version.
By the way (BTW) the Real Rod's Bod, Rod Guyer, that is, used to live down
the street from my studio in San Francisco. I think he's in Sonoma now.
Good luck. Bonita In San Francisco
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http://silverhawk.com/ex99/cohn
June Perry on wed 4 aug 99
I used Rod's bod for a long time. It's a good throwing body with a bad
reputation for ovenware durability. It takes most glazes very well.
Right now I'm in the midst of organizing 25 years of glaze test batches and
tiles and I used to try new glazes on several bodies. Last night I was
sorting chuns and repeatedly, the colors and surface were best on Rod's bod
and worst on Soldate 60!
Today I need to get back to glazing for my first soda firing, next week, for
sure!
Some known glazes that worked just fine on Rods bod: Moonlite, Tomato Red,
Ohata Kaki, Shaner gold, Woo Yellow, Secrest purple, and on and on. I think
you would be safe with any proven cone 9-10 formulas. Just test!
Regards,
June
David Cuzick on thu 5 aug 99
A lot of pepole around this area use Rods Bod clay, some with more success
than others. I will caution you that it tends to crack easly when used to
make large platter forms (bigger than a dinner plate). It is great for
smaller pieces.. lots of spots.
David Cuzick
Claycuzian@aol.com
Tamara Reid-McConkey on fri 13 aug 99
Robin:
I've been using Rod's Bod for a couple of years now and love it. The body
comes out a nice, warm, toasty, slightly orangish, brown in ^10 reduction.
Unfortunately my glaze recipes are in the studio and it's 1:43 am and I'm
just to tired to go get them. I'll send a few in a day or two. I've tried
alot of "standard" cone 10 glazes and got even better results on this clay
body than any other. Only one glaze really sucked (blisters), that was Val
Cushings Semi-Matt Black.
I'll get back to you.
Tamara
Tamara Reid-McConkey on thu 26 aug 99
To Dave and the others who wanted this info (sorry I've forgotten your names):
The following are some cone 10 glazes that work nicely on Rod's Bod. I'll
send the cone 5/6 recipes in a separate e-mail.
Just some general notes on glaze interaction with Rod's Bod first:
1. Most glazes come out richer and deeper in color on this body.
2. Most glazes (all that I can think of but I don't want to box myself
in here)
get a nice iron spotting that I love.
3. Application is a lot of the results (i.e. spraying seems to make
them "flow" more, too thick makes them run, etc.) so I
strongly suggest TEST, TEST, and TEST again!!!
4. I have always fired these in a downdraft (Geil) gas kiln to cone 10,
with reduction starting after cone 012, and getting pretty
heavy toward the end (cones 8,9,10). I also try to soak for 1
hour after hitting 10.
These should get you started. Good Luck!
Tamara
Judy's Cream
Soda Spar 26 This glaze comes out cream (surprise!)
semi-mat,
Dolomite 30 with a slight yellow/green cast. Lots of
Iron
Whiting 5 spotting. Nice, earthy glaze.
EPK 33
Flint 6
Add:
Bentonite 1%
Toshi Black
Custer Spar 33 lbs. 8 oz. Sorry about the formula format here. This is for
a
Whiting 4 lbs. 8 oz. garbage can size batch. You can do the math to
get it
Dolomite 2 lbs. 8 oz. down to the size you need.
EPK 2 lbs. 8 oz. A nice gloss black that breaks brown where
thin or
Flint 8 lbs. 8 oz. over sharp edge.
Bentonite 1 lb.
RIO 5 lbs.
Long Beach Blue
Whiting 19.49 This is a nice stony matt surface, sky blue with
baby
Custer Spar 63.55 blue flecks. Rod's Bod also adds green flecks
(iron
EPK 16.96 spotting). Although this sounds like it might be
the
Add: a "flashy" rutile blue, it's not. But it can
still grow
Cobalt Carb .85 old real fast if you use it alot.
Rutile 4.00
Spodumene
Custer Spar 15 This is also a creamy semi-mat, but the color is
a lot Spodumene 10 truer (no yellow/green cast) and it
breaks rust. Use
EPK 10 EITHER the Zircopax or the Tin Oxide, NOT BOTH.
If
Dolomite 11 you want it a little lighter just add a
little more
Whiting 1 Zircopax or Tin. Keep notes so if you get just
the
Add: right shade, you can duplicate it.
Zircopax 6
OR
Tix Oxide 3
Val Cushing's AA
Cornwall Stone 46 These glazes are what we call "fake ash" glazes.
A
Whiting 34 little more predictable than real ash glazes.
But a
EPK 20 a similar surface. Because of the iron in Rod's
Bod,
Add: some real nice things happen.
for BLUE:
Cobalt Carb 2 A little intense for me, but a lot of people like
it.
for BLUE/GREEN:
Copper Carb 4 This is a lot better. Probably my favorite glaze.
Tin Oxide 4 Where thicker, metallic marbleing.
for TAFFY:
Titanium Dioxide 6 Similar to spodumene above, but not quite.
You'll see.
RIO 4
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