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medicine bottle blu cone 6

updated fri 22 mar 02

 

harold kaplan on wed 20 mar 02


Does anyone have a formula for a glaze that is called
medicine bottle blue cone 6 oxidation? I had the
darned thing about two months ago and can't find it,
mucho frustrating. Somebody please help.
e-mail
Fiddlefingers@yahoo.com

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Paul Lewing on thu 21 mar 02


Harold,
What you need to make that shade of blue is a little cobalt carbonate, say
1-3% in a high-zinc glaze. Look for a recipe that fires to the temperature
you like and has somewhere around 10% zinc oxide. That's a lot of ZnO in
molecular terms.
Happy testing,
paul Lewing, Seattle