Elizabeth Hewitt on sun 9 mar 03
I've spent too much time on this to go my way and not share my findings.
I loved the looks of the cone six wood-fired look of Richard Busch's in
the February Ceramics Monthly issue. It is not likely that I will be
doing wood firing so it was encouraging to find a glaze that gave
somewhat of a similar look.
I've spent an entire week, testing the glaze every day without getting
the nutmeg color from the glaze he shared. There was a hairline of
color at the very bottom on the test piece and otherwise it was whitish
or boring light tan...just nothing at all like the pictures in the
magazine. I suspected and tried everything I could think of, even
wondering if somehow I had missed adding the iron in spite of having it
checked off on my recipe page. After adding additional iron, it was
nothing but worst. Because of the minute line of color at the very
bottom, I wondered if I was putting the glaze on too thick. I started
over with a 100gr batch and just a very quick dip of the test piece in
the glaze that I had thinning way down. And.....that was it. I got the
color.
Whether it truly looks like wood fired or if some expert could detect
the difference is immaterial to me. It's a VERY nice glaze and I'm eager
to try it on real pieces.
So, if you have tested it with no success......try thinning the glaze
and making just a quick dip. It's beautiful.
Elizabeth, who is glad to have found yet another beautiful glaze.
Ann Brink on mon 10 mar 03
Elizabeth- thanks for this report. I want to try this as soon as I get back
from SD. Question: did you use a white or buff clay body? This wasn't
mentioned in the article, but it looked like a buff colored body to me. And
as we know that can make a huge difference.
Ann Brink, Lompoc CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Hewitt"
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: wood-fired look and thrilled.
> I've spent too much time on this to go my way and not share my findings.
> I loved the looks of the cone six wood-fired look of Richard Busch's in
> the February Ceramics Monthly issue. It is not likely that I will be
> doing wood firing so it was encouraging to find a glaze that gave
> somewhat of a similar look.
>
> I've spent an entire week, testing the glaze every day without getting
> the nutmeg color from the glaze he shared. There was a hairline of
> color at the very bottom on the test piece and otherwise it was whitish
> or boring light tan...just nothing at all like the pictures in the
> magazine. I suspected and tried everything I could think of, even
> wondering if somehow I had missed adding the iron in spite of having it
> checked off on my recipe page. After adding additional iron, it was
> nothing but worst. Because of the minute line of color at the very
> bottom, I wondered if I was putting the glaze on too thick. I started
> over with a 100gr batch and just a very quick dip of the test piece in
> the glaze that I had thinning way down. And.....that was it. I got the
> color.
>
> Whether it truly looks like wood fired or if some expert could detect
> the difference is immaterial to me. It's a VERY nice glaze and I'm eager
> to try it on real pieces.
>
>
ranmcc on mon 10 mar 03
Elizabeth, I am interested in this glaze also. I got the recipe off the
Ceramics Monthly web site. I just recently order Ceramics Monthly and did
not get that issue. In looking at the recipe on the web site I did not see
where it called for iron. Am I missing some of the recipe from the web
site?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Hewitt"
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: wood-fired look and thrilled.
> I've spent too much time on this to go my way and not share my findings.
> I loved the looks of the cone six wood-fired look of Richard Busch's in
> the February Ceramics Monthly issue. It is not likely that I will be
> doing wood firing so it was encouraging to find a glaze that gave
> somewhat of a similar look.
>
> I've spent an entire week, testing the glaze every day without getting
> the nutmeg color from the glaze he shared. There was a hairline of
> color at the very bottom on the test piece and otherwise it was whitish
> or boring light tan...just nothing at all like the pictures in the
> magazine. I suspected and tried everything I could think of, even
> wondering if somehow I had missed adding the iron in spite of having it
> checked off on my recipe page. After adding additional iron, it was
> nothing but worst. Because of the minute line of color at the very
> bottom, I wondered if I was putting the glaze on too thick. I started
> over with a 100gr batch and just a very quick dip of the test piece in
> the glaze that I had thinning way down. And.....that was it. I got the
> color.
>
> Whether it truly looks like wood fired or if some expert could detect
> the difference is immaterial to me. It's a VERY nice glaze and I'm eager
> to try it on real pieces.
>
> So, if you have tested it with no success......try thinning the glaze
> and making just a quick dip. It's beautiful.
>
> Elizabeth, who is glad to have found yet another beautiful glaze.
>
>
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Ababi on tue 11 mar 03
I was not so impressed from the article. I will write it carefully and send to the list after
the NCECA Did I write it correctly?
No I am not going but I think it is important and more people should read write about
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/
http://www.milkywayceramics.com/cgallery/asharon.htm
and also
http://www.israel-ceramics.org/membersGallery/personalpage.asp?MID=507
---------- Original Message ----------
>I've spent too much time on this to go my way and not share my findings.
>I loved the looks of the cone six wood-fired look of Richard Busch's in
>the February Ceramics Monthly issue. It is not likely that I will be
>doing wood firing so it was encouraging to find a glaze that gave
>somewhat of a similar look.
>I've spent an entire week, testing the glaze every day without getting
>the nutmeg color from the glaze he shared. There was a hairline of
>color at the very bottom on the test piece and otherwise it was whitish
>or boring light tan...just nothing at all like the pictures in the
>magazine. I suspected and tried everything I could think of, even
>wondering if somehow I had missed adding the iron in spite of having it
>checked off on my recipe page. After adding additional iron, it was
>nothing but worst. Because of the minute line of color at the very
>bottom, I wondered if I was putting the glaze on too thick. I started
>over with a 100gr batch and just a very quick dip of the test piece in
>the glaze that I had thinning way down. And.....that was it. I got the
>color.
>Whether it truly looks like wood fired or if some expert could detect
>the difference is immaterial to me. It's a VERY nice glaze and I'm eager
>to try it on real pieces.
>So, if you have tested it with no success......try thinning the glaze
>and making just a quick dip. It's beautiful.
>Elizabeth, who is glad to have found yet another beautiful glaze.
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
>settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at melpots@pclink.com.
Elizabeth Hewitt on tue 11 mar 03
Ann asked:
Question: did you use a white or buff clay body? This wasn't
mentioned in the article, but it looked like a buff colored body to me.
And
as we know that can make a huge difference.
Ann, so far I've tested it on white. I have test pieces waiting to be
bisqued that are of Tuckers Mid Speckled clay and when they are ready,
I'll be testing it on those. I'm expecting that if anything, this glaze
will be better on it because it's a darker body. I would say that it
can be used on white though. These tests look good. I'll put an image
of my test pieces on the Yahoo site where I have other albums. The album
will be called. "Wood-Fired Look".
http://photos.yahoo.com/myhandsinclay
Elizabeth
Pat Rogers on wed 12 mar 03
i tried the glaze and the white satin overpowered the nutmeg.
i tried mixing the two glazes together, i tried brushing on the
nutmeg and then the white, i tried brushing on the white and
then the nutmeg......only had a small mini result about the edge
of the test tile. i tried it on white stoneware and red stoneware,
all fired to cone 6.
what am i not doing correctly??
pat
>>> elizabeth01@ALLTEL.NET 03/11/03 08:42AM >>>
Ann asked:
Question: did you use a white or buff clay body? This wasn't
mentioned in the article, but it looked like a buff colored body to me.
And
as we know that can make a huge difference.
Ann, so far I've tested it on white. I have test pieces waiting to be
bisqued that are of Tuckers Mid Speckled clay and when they are ready,
I'll be testing it on those. I'm expecting that if anything, this glaze
will be better on it because it's a darker body. I would say that it
can be used on white though. These tests look good. I'll put an image
of my test pieces on the Yahoo site where I have other albums. The album
will be called. "Wood-Fired Look".
http://photos.yahoo.com/myhandsinclay
Elizabeth
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ranmcc on wed 12 mar 03
William did you dip once, twice, how many times?
----- Original Message -----
From: "william schran"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: wood-fired look and thrilled.
> Pat asks what she is not doing correctly combining the white & nutmeg
> glaze to get the wood fired look. i think in your description you
> write about applying the glaze by brushing. I suspect your not
> getting a heavy enough coat. Try dipping. We've tested and found the
> best combination is 2/3 nutmeg and 1/3 white by volume.
> Bill
>
>
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Ababi on wed 12 mar 03
Let me start here: (Of course)
I never made wood fire. If I could I certainly ( wood)!
The only time was as a beginner I put a bisqued war into a fire out of home with the
potatoes but it is not considered.
I wrote before. I have an electric kiln. I can fire up to 1280C 2336F. I decided to fire to
^6 in order not to spend too much money. Looking back I think I have done right
because this way I know the behavior of the kiln, clays and glazes better and
manipulates them to my needs.
Presuming that no one of you ever seen or made woodfiring and the only place we
ALL have seen woodfiring is in the CM of February 2003 I can look at the article of
Richard Busch and tell you what I think
The first fact :
These wares looked oriental,Japanese, the tall wares, the black stokes of the brush.
This glaze on any other wares would look boring.
The minute I saw the article (60X24X30 minutes after you of course)
It reminded me of a glaze I made and used Nepheline Syenite instead of Quartz by
mistake.
I recalculated it to "Western materials here:
BROWN TRANSLUCENT
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Cone 6 1222 deg.C. -
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Custer feldspar 28.00
EPK Kaolin 21.00
Calcium Carbonate 11.00
zinc oxide 10.00
strontium carbonate 6.00
frit 3110 24.00
Tin Oxide 10.00
Red Iron Oxide 6.00
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Seger Weight%
KNO 0.268 8.89%
CaO 0.334 8.55%
MgO 0.001 0.02%
ZnO 0.298 11.09%
SrO 0.099 4.67%
Al2O3 0.325 15.12%
P2O5 0.001 0.06%
B2O3 0.022 0.69%
SiO2 1.853 50.83%
TiO2 0.002 0.09%
K2O 0.089 3.83%
Na2O 0.179 5.05%
Al:Si 5.70
Expan. 9.05
ST 374.43
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Clay Body buff mottled!
Colour brown
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Comment: Apply thin or medium/
Though it has high tin it is kind of translucent.
As I said this version was not tested
The next version
perhaps more stable:
BROWN TRANSLUCENT
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Cone 6 1222 deg.C. -
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Custer feldspar 25.00
EPK Kaolin 19.00
Calcium Carbonate 10.00
zinc oxide 9.00
strontium carbonate 5.00
frit 3110 22.00
silica 10.00
Tin Oxide 10.00
Red Iron Oxide 6.00
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Seger Weight%
KNO 0.270 7.96%
CaO 0.338 7.69%
MgO 0.001 0.02%
ZnO 0.299 9.87%
SrO 0.092 3.85%
Al2O3 0.326 13.47%
P2O5 0.001 0.05%
B2O3 0.022 0.63%
SiO2 2.314 56.39%
TiO2 0.002 0.08%
K2O 0.089 3.40%
Na2O 0.181 4.56%
Al:Si 7.10
Expan. 8.44
ST 368.77
This evening ( at your breakfast) I made out of my orange brown paperclay some
bottles, "oriental" look to test some recipes of this woodfiring business. As I say: It is
the look of the ware the claybody and in the end the translucent brown glaze or the
cream off white glaze, which is not a big deal.
I will try to take a picture of a mug I made with this glaze to show you what I mean.
Actually I think I have it on my site http://tinyclick.com/?SQW55Q it is not a great
picture but as a starting point, it is the brown glaze.
I look in the recipes. There is nothing holy in them. Enter to
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~spilacho/
See the extraordinary use of Stephen with oxidation
glazes:http://members.bellatlantic.net/~spilacho/glazes.htm
Try them thin and thick Just remember you need translucency!
You need mottled buff claybody
It has to look 'wood fired, not too modern shape!
I opened a new page in my site.
The pictures the are not in the best quality, I shall try to improve them, I called the
page:
If I could I wood! (fire)
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/1188343/
All the wares, different claybodies Crystal glaze. From my point of view, beyond the
crystal firing one step farther!
I manipulate this technique for my needs my dreams ( I wood) If I Cood- Ababi
william schran on wed 12 mar 03
Pat asks what she is not doing correctly combining the white & nutmeg
glaze to get the wood fired look. i think in your description you
write about applying the glaze by brushing. I suspect your not
getting a heavy enough coat. Try dipping. We've tested and found the
best combination is 2/3 nutmeg and 1/3 white by volume.
Bill
Concepts in Clay on thu 3 apr 03
Hi All
I tried the wonderful recipes from the CM Wood-Fired Look article. While I
still have lots of trial and error ahead I want to share the fact that the
white alone makes a fine liner glaze. I am anticipating the mix of the glazes
will one day give me a new look for some of my sculptural work.
Bobbi in Central PA
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