Alice Smrcka on tue 14 dec 99
Has anyone salt fired Laguna B-mix to ^10? I've contacted Laguna and
they
do not have any information about B-mix and salt.
I'd like to know what the surface is like. Does it stay white or
off-white?
Does it get toasty or flash?
Alice
June Perry on wed 15 dec 99
I had one Bmix test piece in a light salt firing and it was pretty pasty and
boring. It was a dull, flat, light cream color - no flashing.
Someone else told me that it wasn't good in salt, but I had a lot of clay
orphans on the shelves that I wanted to clear out in that firing.
Regards,
June
Don & June MacDonald on wed 15 dec 99
Hi: Cathi Jefferson from North Vancouver, B.C. fires B-Mix in salt all
the time, and has done for a number of years. You can see pictures of
some of her work in the book "The Best of Pottery", page 109, and 131.
June
Alice Smrcka wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Has anyone salt fired Laguna B-mix to ^10? I've contacted Laguna and
> they
> do not have any information about B-mix and salt.
> I'd like to know what the surface is like. Does it stay white or
> off-white?
> Does it get toasty or flash?
>
> Alice
Corinne P. Null on wed 15 dec 99
I fired a couple of B-mix ^10 in a salt firing. It tends to stay really
cold white. There was a bit of carbon trapping on one side to give a nice
grey color, and a 1/2 dollar size of orange flashing around where it was
resting on the wadding. Otherwise, it was pretty lifeless. My take on
B-mix is that it's good for glaze color development - sort of as a canvas,
but that flashing and natural effects generally pass it by.
Corinne Null
Bedford, New Hampshire
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Subject: Salt Firing Laguna B-Mix ^10--need info---
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Has anyone salt fired Laguna B-mix to ^10? I've contacted Laguna and
they
do not have any information about B-mix and salt.
I'd like to know what the surface is like. Does it stay white or
off-white?
Does it get toasty or flash?
Alice
Pat Colyar on wed 15 dec 99
I had the pleasure of salt-firing B-mix in Craig Martell's kiln in
October, The surface took the salt well, was a heavily reduced grey in
some areas, and a lighter toasty brown in other areas. I did some
brushwork on the bare clay surface with a 50/50 mix of rutile and red
iron, and got a lovely gold.
Pat Colyar in Gold Bar, Wash., where the humidity is currently 100% and
we've had 8.17 inches of precip. so far in Dec.
Jeffrey Taylor on thu 16 dec 99
In my opinion, B-mix is only good in salt with heavy slip over top,
I coat the exterior, and use a gear as it is rotating to make uniform
"footprints"(gearprints) where the tooth of the gear touches and removes the sli
is a nice contrast to the effect of the various slips I use.
Jeffrey J. Taylor
Duval Saskatchewan, Canada
June Perry wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I had one Bmix test piece in a light salt firing and it was pretty pasty and
> boring. It was a dull, flat, light cream color - no flashing.
> Someone else told me that it wasn't good in salt, but I had a lot of clay
> orphans on the shelves that I wanted to clear out in that firing.
>
> Regards,
> June
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