Lee Sipe on mon 24 jan 00
I began saving all my unused glaze in two buckets. After a period of time,
out of curiosity, I tested the glazes. Where these two unknown glazes
overlapped, the result was a beautiful blue. I fire at cone six, oxidation.
Is there anyone that can analyze these glazes to tell me how to recreate them?
Thanks. Lee Sipe, Columbia, South Carolina.
Paul Lewing on tue 25 jan 00
Sorry, Lee. I don't think there's any way to analyse a bucket of glaze.
At least not either economically or in the kind of minute detail that
would be required to duplicate a scrap glaze. This will just have to be
one of those glazes that forever fixes in your mind a period in your
career. So twenty years from now you look at one of those pieces and
say, "Ah, yes, I remember that bucket of scrap glaze. I was working
then at ------ right about the turn of the millenium."
I just today used the last of a bucket of scrap that, when mixed half
and half with a commercial white glaze I use a lot, made a grey-green
color pretty much just like celadon at cone 4 in oxidation. It always
makes a greyish green of some kind, but usually not this celadon-like
colr. Oh well!
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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