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avoiding and tracking glaze errors- my glaze form enclosed (less

updated sun 28 apr 02

 

June Perry on sat 27 apr 02

formatting)

In addition to the sound advice given about keeping one bucket or bin open
at
a time and checking off each ingredient as you mix, etc I also make sure
that
I mark on my sheet what clay and spar I have used, the mesh of the silica,
etc.
I write all my test recipes on a separate sheet that I use for the batch.
Sometimes you get to the studio and you're out of one Potspar or clay and
sub
another, so I note that on my sheet. I save all those sheets for quite a
while. If I've subbed a raw material in the test, I note that in my glaze
book. and on my glaze result sheets.
I have over 8,000 recipes that I've compiled over the years and I mark the
ones I've tested, and I mark the ones that I have sheets on waiting to be
tested. Years ago I designed a glaze form where I enter all the information
on a glaze test, i.e. #, name, cone, type (barium matt, etc.), atmosphere,
kiln used, placement in kiln, firing schedule, claybodies (I often test on
several bodies), engobes or oxides used, surface, opacity, weather, and on
and on. I usually fill these out the minute I get the glazes out of the kiln
(but not always! :-(

I've copied my form and pasted it below, but unfortunately, lost all the
lines/formatting in the form, but it gives you an idea of what I put in the
form. I juse used my regular word perfect to make the form.

GLAZE RECIPE AND TEST RESULTS


# NAME: CONE: RED: OX:

COLOR/S:

SURFACE: OPACITY: TYPE:

BATCHED: TESTED: DATE:

FIRING INSTRUCTIONS:

INGREDIENTS: BATCH WT % MOLECULAR FORMULA



OXIDE WASHES
ENGOBES



COLOR VARIATIONS:



TOTAL:

STONEWARE: PORCELAIN:

BISQUE CONE: GLAZE CONE: GLAZE THICKNESS:

POSITION IN KILN: KILN LOG #: GLAZE FIT:

FIRED SURFACE: FIRED COLOR: L.O.I

ASSESSMENT:



FOLLOWUP:




Heading for the studio to actually do something other than unpacking and
organizing!

Regards,
June