SusanRaku@AOL.COM on mon 7 aug 00
In a message dated 08/06/2000 12:11:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Cerere
writes:
<< Subj: Re: cone 6 glaze needed
Date: 08/06/2000 12:11:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Cerere
To: Susan Raku
can you found out if this Stilt body formula is good for cone 6?
ball clay 78
kaolin (any)...10
flint 12 >>
A friend sent me the above question and I would appreciate help from those of
you who know the answer.
Susan
Lee Love on mon 7 aug 00
John Conrad has some recipes in his original clay and glaze books. I can't
find them in my "complete Compendium."
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David Hendley on mon 7 aug 00
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| can you found out if this Stilt body formula is good for cone 6?
| ball clay 78
| kaolin (any)...10
| flint 12 >>
|
I don't have a lot of stilt-making experience, but this does
not look like a good recipe to me. It won't melt at cone 6,
but it is not very refractory and it is very fine-grained.
My favorite stilt recipe is to use 50% ground up insulating
fire bricks, along with fire clay and ball clay. Use as much
fire clay as possible, start with maybe 30%, and 20% ball
clay. Increase the ball clay & reduce the fire clay only for
extra plasticity, if needed. This recipe can be successfully
used in a hand extruder.
'Window screen' mesh is a good particle size for the ground up
fire bricks (this is about 15-20 mesh). Use any old scraps of
used and broken insulating fire bricks, and break them with
a hammer, or whatever's handy.
Years ago, I was looking around at an electric kiln factory,
and I wondered what they did with all those little pieces
of bricks that are left over from making 10 or 12 sided kilns.
You guessed it, when you buy the furniture kit with your new
kiln, you are getting all the missing corners of your firebricks,
but in a different form.....
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amy parker on tue 8 aug 00
One of the many things I received from my friend's late mother was 4 sets
of molds for pouring your own stilts. I've press-molded some pre-mixed
bagged cone 6 clay into them & gotten just as good results as if I had
slipcast them. I'm now thinking cone 10...
Amy
At 01:54 PM 8/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
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>| can you found out if this Stilt body formula is good for cone 6?
>| ball clay 78
>| kaolin (any)...10
>| flint 12 >>
>|
....
>I don't have a lot of stilt-making experience, but this does
>not look like a good recipe to me. It won't melt at cone 6,
>but it is not very refractory and it is very fine-grained.
...
favorite stilt recipe is to use 50% ground up insulating
>fire bricks, along with fire clay and ball clay. Use as much
>fire clay as possible, start with maybe 30%, and 20% ball
>clay. Increase the ball clay & reduce the fire clay only for
>extra plasticity, if needed. This recipe can be successfully
>used in a hand extruder.
>'Window screen' mesh is a good particle size for the ground up
>fire bricks (this is about 15-20 mesh). Use any old scraps of
>used and broken insulating fire bricks, and break them with
>a hammer, or whatever's handy.
Amy Parker
Lithonia, GA
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