The Hetland Gray's on fri 10 mar 00
Has anyone heard if any artificial substitutes have been developed yet
to deal with the gerstley shortage? I heard a rumor that several "big"
manufacturers were schedualed to have some products out soon to fill the
gap-but that was several weeks ago.
Judith Enright on sat 11 mar 00
Read Jeff Zamek's excellent article on this whole issue in this
month's Ceramics Monthly.
Judith Enright
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Earl Brunner on sat 11 mar 00
It will probably take more than "several" weeks for them to
work out
and test some of the several alternatives. If it didn't,
then we would
all be complaining about the quality of the materials that
they "rushed"
to the market. We would probably be wanting them to pay for
our "lost"
pots, time, etc.
The Hetland Gray's wrote:
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> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Has anyone heard if any artificial substitutes have been developed yet
> to deal with the gerstley shortage? I heard a rumor that several "big"
> manufacturers were schedualed to have some products out soon to fill the
> gap-but that was several weeks ago.
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Carolynn Palmer on sun 12 mar 00
I spoke recently with Hammil and Gillespe Inc of New Jersey, who are
suppliers of Gerstley Borate in the East and Midwest, they assured me they
have on hand a year's supply of Gerstley Borate, and are working on
substitutes for when that runs out.
Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
Darryl on mon 13 mar 00
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Has anyone heard if any artificial substitutes have been developed yet
>to deal with the gerstley shortage? I heard a rumor that several "big"
>manufacturers were schedualed to have some products out soon to fill the
>gap-but that was several weeks ago.
April issue of CM has an article on this.
GURUSHAKTI@AOL.COM on wed 14 jun 00
Dear Clayarters:
Thanks for the response on the the gerstley substitutes question. I just got
my sample of MurraysBorate yesterday and I'll test it in my next glaze
firing. I'm just starting to play with cone 6 oxidation glazes so I'm not
married to any old recipes. I think it will be fun to formulate new glazes or
tweek old ones, using the new material and frits. I've always dreaded opening
the bucket of my cone 10 chuns and hoping that they hadn't flocculated since
I last used them. It will be a nice change to work with a more stable form of
ghastly b!
Warm regards,
June
LJTCW@AOL.COM on thu 15 jun 00
Dear Clayarters,
I have done some testing with Laguna Borate and Murray's Borate. Most glazes
looked simillar to the color of the originals but Luguna worked better for me.
Soon, I will be doing another test tile dipping about 2 weeks after the
glazes were made to see if there is any difference.
Louise
Louise Jenks
Cincinnati OH USA
LJTCW@AOL.COM
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