will edwards on mon 18 dec 00
Hello,
I am glad you brought this up Mayor Mel.
", it is not 27 different recipes, but two. what was under
that shino was maybe 50 different claybody styles, and dozens of differen=
t
firing conclusions."
This can also be the case with many other glazes that some people say don=
't
travel so well. I continully test many clay bodies and find that I can ge=
t
almost as many variances with the bodies and glaze as I can with the reci=
pe
modifications. =
I also used to fire ^10 R and now I fire ^6 ox and so far I have several
glazes I have conjured up that really are hard to tell from one to the ot=
her.
(It's Alchemy) Like turning lead into gold!
When I was in another training situation once upon a time I was inthralle=
d by
a pretty glaze that bore a very dry finish and a specific color I thought=
was
alluring. I was told succinctly that the glaze could not be duplicated wi=
thout
barium and reduction. Prior to leaving my place of training at the time n=
ot
only did I achieve the color in question but had created a much safer ver=
sion
by removing the barium completely, adding more color to it and enhancing =
it in
other ways as well as dropping it from a ^10 R to a ^6 O. (I know this is=
not
the usual case everyone!) Get glaze calculation software. I didn't have i=
t
myself but could have used it! =
That is when I started noticing the ways a clay body can interact with a
glaze.
The next thing that proved to be a valuable lesson was when I had 3 manga=
nese
samples sitting in a row and I was working a glaze formulae that I wrote
calling for manganese dioxide and I grabbed up the Manganese Carbonate
instead. I had weighed the material and place the first scoop full in the=
sample (Very tired that day) and caught myself and thought what a loon I =
was.
I finished the glaze off and made the original as well and BANG the one I=
had
mistakenly made was another time I turned lead into gold. (Another alchem=
ist
moment).
I bet they are more discoveries by accident than they are on purpose? Now=
only
if I could really turn lead into gold without nuclear fusion and massive
atomic discharge I could make a real living. =
Now a ^6 oxidation Shino would reallly be a contribution wouldn't it? Som=
e
things just stand alone while others get lost in the mix.
William (The alchemist) Edwards
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