Brian Molanphy on fri 23 nov 01
chris,
i'm not tony, but its rare that i feel i have something to offer the list
instead of asking from it, so here goes:
i raw glaze teapots (and most everything) leather hard. if i'm gonna dunk
the whole thing, i use a big bucket of glaze with room so i don't knock the
handle off. i use my hands, not tongs, and may have to patch fingerprints
with a brush. probably there is a more professional and cleaner method?
however, since mostly i am soda-firing, i usually only glaze the inside,
pouring excess out the spout. i find that the holes in the spout are less
likely to fill in with glaze when raw glazing, since the glaze takes longer
to dry than it does on bisque. with the extra few seconds i can blow open
the spout holes. true for the glazes that i use anyway. then i might use a
mop to apply colored slip the outside of the teapot, or not, depending on
the claybody color. i usually glaze the inside first, then slip the outside
the following day.
brian
Martin Howard on sun 25 nov 01
Chris, don't worry about there being a little glaze on your recycled clay.
I have added old glaze at about 10% of total input to the pug mill with no
ill effects at all.
Look at the constituents of glaze and those of clay. When you prepare glaze
for single firing, you add about 20% clay to your normal twice fired glazes
in any case.
Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
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chris clarke on sun 25 nov 01
Brian,
Thanks, single firing seems so mysterious. I don't think I have the
shear nerve to do it. I don't care about loosing stuff, but I'd like the
clay to be at least recyclable and with glaze on it I'm not sure. I may try
it on some smaller pieces and see if it changes anything. Thanks 'I'm not
tony' ; )
chris
temecula, california
chris@ccpots.com
www.ccpots.com
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