Jessica Morton on sun 29 apr 01
I may have asked this already, but our readership varies & grows, so here=
goes:
Someone left a glaze in our studio labeled Chai Sky. When cleaning
the shelf, I did some tests with it and love it - but there's no
recipe, and nobody knows who left it.
The glaze when fired at ^10 reduction on an iron-bearing stoneware
(8-11 Red) is stable with tenmoku-like red-brown where thin, light
grey-olive green where medium, and light blue-gray where thickest.
I'd really appreciate any leads on a recipe - have searched a few
books and online glaze databases without luck so far. Thanks!
"It's not that children are little scientists but that
scientists are big children."
---"The Scientist in the Crib" by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and K=
uhl
Martin Howard on mon 30 apr 01
Don't we sometimes need to stop guessing about a glaze and just do the
logical thing;
have it analysed. That may cost a little, but the time spent searching fo=
r
the recipe may well be time wasted.
Also the original RMs may not be available anymore, so what use would the
original recipe be.
But a list of all the oxides present in the glaze would enable you to
compose another via one of the computer programs.
That might not be just the same, but it would be pretty close.
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
Eric Suchman on mon 30 apr 01
>From: Jessica Morton
>Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: searching for mystery glaze: Chai Sky
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:05:10 -0700
>
>I may have asked this already, but our readership varies & grows, so her=
e
>goes:
>
>Someone left a glaze in our studio labeled Chai Sky. When cleaning
>the shelf, I did some tests with it and love it - but there's no
>recipe, and nobody knows who left it.
>The glaze when fired at ^10 reduction on an iron-bearing stoneware
>(8-11 Red) is stable with tenmoku-like red-brown where thin, light
>grey-olive green where medium, and light blue-gray where thickest.
>I'd really appreciate any leads on a recipe - have searched a few
>books and online glaze databases without luck so far. Thanks!
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> "It's not that children are little scientists but that
>scientists are big children."
> ---"The Scientist in the Crib" by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and
>Kuhl
>
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I never heard of Chai Sky but your description sounds alot like Shaner's =
Red
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