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turning to dust/a recipe

updated tue 25 dec 01

 

Peter Coates on mon 24 dec 01


>It's magnesium - take any tenmoku glaze and add some - you will see the
>green crystals that make tea dust.

here is an actual glaze i have used which forms those little green
crystals...
it is from the magazine "POTTERY IN AUSTRALIA" VOL 37 #4 DEC. 98

Chris James Stoneware Base
Potash felsspar (i used custer) 43
Whiting 14
Magnesium carb light 3
Eckalite 2 Kaolin (i used EPK) 6
Silica 34
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100%

Plus 8 % Red Iron Oxide for a Tenmoku

Pete in Oklahellma...