potterybydai on thu 3 jan 02
> The solution to this problem is really quite simple....a "secret >decoder
ring".
Thank you, John Post, for trying to bring everyone back to earth! I had a
good laugh, reading your post ---- the discussion has become a little tense,
and I hope your novel idea takes the pressure off! It seems there has been
no reticence about posting glaze recipes in the past, with or without it's
"history" or source, and I think it's only because "one of our own" (well,
two ) have now done a glaze book, that we have become super-sensitive to
the idea of someone getting a recipe for free.
I still contend that being in receipt of one or two recipes from a
well-written book is only going to act as an incentive to buy that book. I
have bought the book, sight-unseen, because of recipes that I've got, and
tried, originating from both Ron and John, via clayart. When asked by
another potter about a glaze on a pot, I respond, "It's Ron Roy's Floating
Blue, #3" or whatever it is. If asked by a customer, I'd say "It's called
Floating Blue", as I'm sure most customers don't know who Ron Roy, or any
other glaze guru on clayart is, anyway. HOWEVER......recent posts exhorting
us to give credit to the originator of glazes we use, when displaying
pots......surely you don't mean that we production potters, who may have a
pallette of up to a dozen glazes used separately, or two or three layered on
a single pot, with hundreds of pots on display at any given show, have to
label each bloody pot with the ancestral lineage of each glaze?! This is
getting ridiculous, folks. I think we should just get back to the usual on
clayart regarding recipes. I don't think either John or Ron will suffer
financial damage because of it. And, obviously, if they had a "secret"
recipe that they prized and never wanted to see on anyone else's pots, I'm
sure they won't have included it in the book.
I hope my book comes with a decoder ring.......
Dai in Kelowna, BC, nightmare-ing about large hang-tags on each and every
pot, detailing who "invented" the glaze(s), who I learned such-and-such a
technique from, who taught me to throw, and on and on.
"Never put off until tomorrow that which can be avoided altogether."
attributed to Ann Landers
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