Jonathan Pennington on tue 25 dec 01
* John Post [011225 08:41]:
> The solution to this problem is really quite simple....
>
> Each new glaze book needs to be sold with a "secret decoder ring".
> Recipes that need to be discussed are then sent to clayart in code.
> Only those who own the book and thus have the "secret decoder ring" will be
> able to make sense of the recipe.
And the secret decoder ring method is pretty easy, after a fact. Write
only the unity formula, forcing people to translate that into a recipe
for themselves. Of course, you still wouldn't get the "same"
glaze. I'm sure that I could formulate a recipe from a unity formula
and someone else could and we could get pretty close, but in my
limited experience it seems that we could also formulate glazes that
act entirely differently, based on the ingredients we choose to
use. Therefore, you'd want to include the original recipe with the
unity formula, and people who are lazy or don't want to take the time
will just use the recipe, and we are back where we started :-)
-J
(I just learned of a potters coop in my town, after living here for 10
years (and being a hobbiest potter for only 3). My wife and I were
talking about trying to start one, foolish though we would've been.)
--
Jonathan Pennington | jwpennin@bellsouth.net
"There are no pots, there is only clay." -original
"It's hard to take life too seriously
when you realize yours is a joke." -also original
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