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sintering the wax out

updated fri 16 mar 01

 

Llewellyn Kouba on thu 15 mar 01


Thanks Snail- Now that is a novel idea that I hadn't really thought
about. Some works are too large for my electric kiln but yes, that would
work for some supposed prize piece or other to stick them in the Amaco and
melt out the wax and proceed. I'll have to give that one a try sometime
too. Llewellyn

>Can you use wax? I have gotten pretty
precise lines that way; some effects
require sintering the glaze and burning
out the wax, (^010 or so,) before the
next 'round' of waxing, to work on areas
where the wax was the first time. Sort
of like batik, maybe?
You don't have to fire to the maturation
temp of the glaze between waxings, but
only high enough to burn out the previous
wax.