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need glazes compatible with hawaiian red ii

updated wed 10 jul 02

 

Marian Morris on mon 8 jul 02


Have recently tried Hawaiian Red II, and love it for handbuilt work. Two questions: It seems hardly any more vitrious at cone 5 than 05. Is this your experience? Also, I would like to find either recipes or commercial clear and white majolica base which are compatible (craze free) for functional work. I am not an experienced glaze developer, but know many of you are. Thanks so much.


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Dan Dermer on tue 9 jul 02


I have used Hawaiian Red as well, and found that it did not hold water even
when fired to cone 6.
There are many other commercial red cone 6 stoneware clays.... my two
favorites in that temperature range are Aardvark SRF and (to a lesser
extent) Navajo Wheel. Both of these have good color response to lots of
cone 6 oxidation glazes, and both throw more smoothly -- containing much
less grog/sand than Hawaiian Red.

For a glossy white glaze, you could try Tony Hansen's 5x20 glaze with
additions of tin and/or superpax for white:
http://digitalfire.com/education/glaze/cone6.htm

-Dan


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Subject: Need glazes compatible with Hawaiian Red II


Have recently tried Hawaiian Red II, and love it for handbuilt work. Two
questions: It seems hardly any more vitrious at cone 5 than 05. Is this your
experience? Also, I would like to find either recipes or commercial clear
and white majolica base which are compatible (craze free) for functional
work. I am not an experienced glaze developer, but know many of you are.
Thanks so much.


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