becky schroeder on fri 3 aug 01
as my grandma would "landagoshen child, your mind is a dither". i got so
much encouragement from my help wanted post that i decided to drag out all
my hundreds of old test tiles i did an year or so ago and explore the
keepers. horrors, most of the gems were under or over something i labeled
"antique green" and gave a number to and for some reason scratched out all
the recipe in my notebook indicating my ditzy mind must have decided to
rename and renumber for some reason. does anyone know of something called
antique green in cone 5 or 6 oxidation. i know i must have gotten it from
clayart somehow but the archives don't help in this case. if no one knows i
have the test tiles and even some of the raw glaze in a baggie so if i have
to have it anaylzed i will. is there someone who does this. lesson
learned, keep better records!!!!!!!!!
becky
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Earl Brunner on sat 4 aug 01
We use one called Xavier's Warm Jade Green (the studio renamed it
"Roseville Green", reminiscent of one of the Roseville Pottery glazes).
We got it off clayart awhile back.
It's a nice matt green. Don't know if that is what you are looking for:
Custer Feldspar 40.0
Frit 3124 9.0
Whiting 16.0
Talc 9.0
EPK 10.0
Flint/Silica 16.0
add Rutile 6.0 and copper Carb 4.0
becky schroeder wrote:
> as my grandma would "landagoshen child, your mind is a dither". i got so
> much encouragement from my help wanted post that i decided to drag out all
> my hundreds of old test tiles i did an year or so ago and explore the
> keepers. horrors, most of the gems were under or over something i labeled
> "antique green" and gave a number to and for some reason scratched out all
> the recipe in my notebook indicating my ditzy mind must have decided to
> rename and renumber for some reason. does anyone know of something called
> antique green in cone 5 or 6 oxidation. i know i must have gotten it from
> clayart somehow but the archives don't help in this case. if no one
> knows i
> have the test tiles and even some of the raw glaze in a baggie so if i have
> to have it anaylzed i will. is there someone who does this. lesson
> learned, keep better records!!!!!!!!!
>
> becky
>
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Paul Lewing on sat 4 aug 01
on 8/4/01 4:53 AM, becky schroeder at lppotter@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:
> lesson
> learned, keep better records!!!!!!!!!
Ah, Becky,
That's only one of the good lessons to be learned from this, and maybe not
even the most important. This, by the way, from a glaze freak who has
never kept written records. I keep a notebook of recipes I've come t rely
on, but no record ever of what glazes I have tested or whether they worked
or not. I know, I know, but it works for me, even though Ron, Tony, Tom,
and the other glaze experts I know just shake their heads at that.
BUT:
Lesson # 1. It's not the name of the glaze that's important, it's the
chemistry. If you knew now what the chemistry of that glaze was, it would
be much easier for you to find a substitute or a duplication of it.
Lesson # 2. Only testing will fix your problems. Not just this time, but
every time. If you test every recipe you can find that sounds like it might
be what you're looking for, I'd bet anything that you'll be able to find a
workable glaze in time to make your Christmas presents using it.
Lesson #3. The work changes. I like seeing my old work (well, some of it)
and seeing if I can identify al the glazes on it. A large mural of mine
might have 30 or 40 different recipes and color variations, so it's quite a
sport. Butt whether I can tell you the name of that recipe or not 10 years
from now, I like being able to date my work this way. "Oh, I remember that
bucket of scrap. I had almost a gallon of it and I haven't gotten that
effect since." There are always new glaze recipes.
So search the archives, look in books, ask your friends here and elsewhere.
Maybe you'll find that recipe. But I'd say don't have it professionally
analysed. It's probably not that hard to get, and you'd be money and
knowledge ahead to work this out for yourself. Besides, even if you did
have it analysed, you'd get a formula and not a recipe.
Happy testing,
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Martin Howard on sun 5 aug 01
Paul ends with
recipe.>
That's what I always want; a formula which I can adapt to my RMs.
I somehow cannot get my head around the other way of working. You in the
States have different RMs to us in GB. We all have different suppliers, so
our RMs are from different locations, even when they have the same name.
A green glaze from Clayart gave me blue/black with just a hint of green
flashing. I have now dried it out a little to add, handful at a time, to the
reclaim going through the pug mill.
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
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