Ron Collins on wed 2 jan 02
A short personal story...when I got my new kiln down here finally, I had
copied a lot of glazes to try. I tested lots and made up buckets of lots,
couldn't wait. Not stretching the truth, of ALL of them I tried, the ones
on the Hesselberth site (submitted for testing by others) were the absolute
best for my porcelain clay recipe....they were the ones that consistently
did not pin hole, crawl, run, or sit hard in the bucket and were just very
pretty. Javier's revised and Teal off his site. Just by reading them, they
seem just like all the others, but aren't. I want to make all my glazes
work so well. I am using other colorants with those two base glazes because
they work so well. Someone said,"well, what if we make them out of the new
book, and then they don't work out, etc, etc, etc.....and we want to talk
about it on Clayart and can't because we might give something away???" For
crying out loud, READ THE BOOK.....then know the answers to your own
questions. I would be ashamed to ask a question over the Clayart forum ON a
recipe, IN a book that explained how to understand and deal with glaze
problems, and it be obvious, that I HAD the book, but did not READ and
UNDERSTAND the book. I do not know them, but respect these two people
professionally, and I look up to, and admire many people for either their
knowledge or their wit on this forum. You can split hairs and argue all
day, but if they wanted to, they could have just put up a site with great
glazes, and we could all order by the pound. No one may read this through,
but I feel better. Melinda
Wanda Holmes on wed 2 jan 02
Interesting concept - if you just read the book, you never need discuss
what's happening in your experience to what others are doing or ask for
clarification or for more insight. I think I'm reasonably intelligent, I'm
not a rank beginner, I've read lots of glaze books and keep re-reading them,
and I still need this forum on a regular basis.
Wanda
-----Original Message-----
From: Ceramic Arts Discussion List [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On
Behalf Of Ron Collins
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 3:18 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Using John/Ron glazes
A short personal story...when I got my new kiln down here finally, I had
copied a lot of glazes to try. I tested lots and made up buckets of lots,
couldn't wait. Not stretching the truth, of ALL of them I tried, the ones
on the Hesselberth site (submitted for testing by others) were the absolute
best for my porcelain clay recipe....they were the ones that consistently
did not pin hole, crawl, run, or sit hard in the bucket and were just very
pretty. Javier's revised and Teal off his site. Just by reading them, they
seem just like all the others, but aren't. I want to make all my glazes
work so well. I am using other colorants with those two base glazes because
they work so well. Someone said,"well, what if we make them out of the new
book, and then they don't work out, etc, etc, etc.....and we want to talk
about it on Clayart and can't because we might give something away???" For
crying out loud, READ THE BOOK.....then know the answers to your own
questions. I would be ashamed to ask a question over the Clayart forum ON a
recipe, IN a book that explained how to understand and deal with glaze
problems, and it be obvious, that I HAD the book, but did not READ and
UNDERSTAND the book. I do not know them, but respect these two people
professionally, and I look up to, and admire many people for either their
knowledge or their wit on this forum. You can split hairs and argue all
day, but if they wanted to, they could have just put up a site with great
glazes, and we could all order by the pound. No one may read this through,
but I feel better. Melinda
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