Veena Raghavan on sun 24 dec 00
Dear Clayarters,
One last question before the New Year is upon us, hoping that at
least some of you are checking in and reading the posts. I wonder if anyone
has had this problem with Ron Roy's Black III, Cone 6. It worked
wonderfully, when I was in New York. Then I moved, and my glazes were
packed up and not used for several months. Now, that I am glazing again, I
have tried to use it on cone 6 porcelain and buff stoneware, and in all
cases it is pitting and crawling.
Has this happened to anyone else, when they have not used this
glaze for some time? Is there anything I can do to rectify these problems?
Or do I have to throw it out and mix another batch? I have stirred it well
and re-sieved it without any discernable improvement.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
And so, I end the year 2000, as I began it, with a question!
Happy Holidays to all and may the year 2001 be a happy one for everyone,
with wonderful pots and other works of art growing from your hands. May you
create wonder upon wonder and enjoy every stage of the process. Good luck
to everyone, good health (no back, wrist, or other problems), good glazes,
good firings, good sales, and some wishes come true.
Thanks in advance.
Veena
Veena Raghavan
75124.2520@compuserve.com
Cheryl L Litman on sun 24 dec 00
Odd, never happened to me and I have long periods without using it.
Cheryl Litman ---------- Somerset, NJ --------- email:
cheryllitman@juno.com
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 13:19:32 -0500 Veena Raghavan
<75124.2520@COMPUSERVE.COM> writes:
> Dear Clayarters,
> One last question before the New Year is upon us, hoping
> that at
> least some of you are checking in and reading the posts. I wonder if
> anyone
> has had this problem with Ron Roy's Black III, Cone 6. It worked
> wonderfully, when I was in New York. Then I moved, and my glazes
> were
> packed up and not used for several months. Now, that I am glazing
> again, I
> have tried to use it on cone 6 porcelain and buff stoneware, and in
> all
> cases it is pitting and crawling.
> Has this happened to anyone else, when they have not used
> this
> glaze for some time? Is there anything I can do to rectify these
> problems?
> Or do I have to throw it out and mix another batch? I have stirred
> it well
> and re-sieved it without any discernable improvement.
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
> And so, I end the year 2000, as I began it, with a question!
> Happy Holidays to all and may the year 2001 be a happy one for
> everyone,
> with wonderful pots and other works of art growing from your hands.
> May you
> create wonder upon wonder and enjoy every stage of the process. Good
> luck
> to everyone, good health (no back, wrist, or other problems), good
> glazes,
> good firings, good sales, and some wishes come true.
> Thanks in advance.
> Veena
>
> Veena Raghavan
> 75124.2520@compuserve.com
>
>
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Mary Lynch on mon 25 dec 00
Veena wrote:
> One last question before the New Year is upon us, hoping that at
> least some of you are checking in and reading the posts. I wonder if anyone
> has had this problem with Ron Roy's Black III, Cone 6. It worked
> wonderfully, when I was in New York. Then I moved, and my glazes were
> packed up and not used for several months. Now, that I am glazing again, I
> have tried to use it on cone 6 porcelain and buff stoneware, and in all
> cases it is pitting and crawling.
Dear Veena,
I'm also using RR's Black III, mixed up several months ago, on ^6 porcelain
and buff stoneware and am having no problems (knock on wood!). I wonder if
it's possible that it's become thicker (loss of water) somehow during
storage.
Sheer speculation, since I don't know how your glazes were stored during the
move, but I've found some glazes need water added after standing for long
periods. Plastics do allow for some air exchange and evaporation might have
taken place even in covered containers.
I've also had pitting and "spitting" problems in the past with glazes that
were applied thickly.
Good luck, and best wishes for the new year!
Mary in TN
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