Snail Scott on sun 29 oct 00
I have finally decided to take my accumulated glaze
recipes, scattered about in old notebooks and scraps
of paper, and consolidate them in some orderly manner.
I sat down with a stack of 3x5 cards to transcribe
them all into a cardfile, when my husband-the-technophile
catches me in the act. "What are you doing?" he shouts.
"You Luddite!" "A pen? On paper? Oy vey!"
So, having been induced in the name of domestic harmony
to put all these recipes in a computer database, how
should I go about it? This computer has a food-recipe
database format on it, which I suppose will work, although
the irony factor is huge... (My greatest culinary achievement
is successfully thawing frozen pizza.)
Is there a handy glaze-database format out there that
someone could recommend? M'aidez! M'aidez!
-Snail
Martin Howard on mon 30 oct 00
I would use Microsoft Access for anything of a database type.
Just add the headings you need in the top row and reference names or numbers
in the first column and ... type away.
It can incorporate almost any other kind of database material and travels
well.
We could all do the same with our own material and then combine it all in
one enormous database.
Are there many cone 02-2 or 3 potters out their who would like to amalgamate
our glazes in this way?
Martin Howard, paddling in puddles at present after gales and very heavy
rain.
The cats have demanded a tray of cat litter because the Cottage is
surrounded by water. Don't know what has happened to the spiders at
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
Marcia Selsor on mon 30 oct 00
Snail,
I have Hyperglaze for my mac. There is also Digitalfire and Matrix.
Recently for the purpose of qrdering chemicals for our coop, I put 15
glazes on microsoft excel
along with three clay body recipes. This allowed totaling the sums of
each chemical and weights, plus I did a price comparison of three
suppliers. -the whole thing took up two lengthwise pages.
The pricing was interesting because some things are similar and some
things are more expensive the farther they are away from the source. Ex.
I should order custer feldspar from Seattle when it comes from the East
of us and Seattle is 1000 West of us.
The glaze software are good with helping adjust glazes, for seeing if
they are food safe in some cases and for pricing if you keep the prices
updated. They provide inventory lists also.
Best wishes,
Marcia
Snail Scott wrote:
>
> I have finally decided to take my accumulated glaze
> recipes, scattered about in old notebooks and scraps
> of paper, and consolidate them in some orderly manner.
> I sat down with a stack of 3x5 cards to transcribe
> them all into a cardfile, when my husband-the-technophile
> catches me in the act. "What are you doing?" he shouts.
> "You Luddite!" "A pen? On paper? Oy vey!"
>
> So, having been induced in the name of domestic harmony
> to put all these recipes in a computer database, how
> should I go about it? This computer has a food-recipe
> database format on it, which I suppose will work, although
> the irony factor is huge... (My greatest culinary achievement
> is successfully thawing frozen pizza.)
>
> Is there a handy glaze-database format out there that
> someone could recommend? M'aidez! M'aidez!
>
> -Snail
>
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Hank Murrow on mon 30 oct 00
Snail wrote;
>I have finally decided to consolidate my recipes in some orderly manner.
how
>should I go about it?
>
Hank replies;
I think you can hardly go wrong by getting Richard Burkett's
HyperGlaze program. It has brought order and clarity to my record keeping
and freed my glaze-making imagination over the ten years I've been using
it, containing hypercard stacks(which are an ultimate 3x5 system. You can
find it here:
http://members.aol.com/hyperglaze/
Take a peek and try it out. You'll be amazed, and Richard is very
patient and helpful with a great monitor-side manner! Cheers, Hank in Eugene
Terry Hunt on mon 30 oct 00
Don Goodrich put together a compendium of cone 6 glaze recipes (about 60 in
all) some time ago and I have used it continually with success. Don just
used Microsoft Word, and gave ingredients and portions (occasionally with
chemical analyses), and a comment or two in just a few lines each. You
could make a table of contents automatically or manually, if you wished.
On the other hand, if you use a special database, all your readers will
have to have that database program to read it--unless they translate it to
text. Why not use something simple and universal, like Word, that will be
simple for you, and that anyone could read without needing a special program.
I would be glad to send my cleaned up copy of Goodrich's, if you want it.
At 05:30 PM 10/29/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I have finally decided to take my accumulated glaze
>recipes, scattered about in old notebooks and scraps
>of paper, and consolidate them in some orderly manner.
>I sat down with a stack of 3x5 cards to transcribe
>them all into a cardfile, when my husband-the-technophile
>catches me in the act. "What are you doing?" he shouts.
>"You Luddite!" "A pen? On paper? Oy vey!"
>
>So, having been induced in the name of domestic harmony
>to put all these recipes in a computer database, how
>should I go about it? This computer has a food-recipe
>database format on it, which I suppose will work, although
>the irony factor is huge... (My greatest culinary achievement
>is successfully thawing frozen pizza.)
>
>Is there a handy glaze-database format out there that
>someone could recommend? M'aidez! M'aidez!
>
> -Snail
>
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Richard Jeffery on mon 30 oct 00
A few words of caution.... Access is a mighty fine database, but by itself
does not create a self-standing database file - in other words each user has
to have a copy of Access the programme installed on PC. {unless you have MS
Office Developer version - which can create self-running databases). It
does have some idiosyncrasies, and may be overkill for many.
Database design ( I assume we're talking here about something more than a
list) is a complex area...
Still - the idea's good. hope the spiders have dried out...
Richard
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Behalf Of Martin Howard
Sent: 30 October 2000 08:05
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: recipe database
I would use Microsoft Access for anything of a database type.
Just add the headings you need in the top row and reference names or numbers
in the first column and ... type away.
It can incorporate almost any other kind of database material and travels
well.
We could all do the same with our own material and then combine it all in
one enormous database.
Are there many cone 02-2 or 3 potters out their who would like to amalgamate
our glazes in this way?
Martin Howard, paddling in puddles at present after gales and very heavy
rain.
The cats have demanded a tray of cat litter because the Cottage is
surrounded by water. Don't know what has happened to the spiders at
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
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June Perry on tue 31 oct 00
I used Filemaker pro as my glaze database. So far I've type about 1300
recipes in there. I'm hoping to get more in this winter if I don't get bogged
down with everything else.
Filemaker Pro is an reasonably priced, easy to use database with some search
capabilities which makes it easier to find a glaze according to whatever
fields the user defines. It is more limited than a true relational database,
but I can find my glaze by name, number, type, color, cone, etc.
Your wife's recipe program may work. It just depends on your needs and it's
flexibility.
Regards,
June
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