Lily Krakowski on fri 30 may 03
Although we eat ramps (Eater beware!) I do not have a kiln with a firing
thing that "ramps"
So I heat and cool, and sometimes "fire down". I have done work with
twice-fired glazes (did piece in PMI some time ago) which I fired to c6 and
then, after total cooling, refired to c.04,
JOHN: I visualize glazes fired at c.6 and then cooled and "held" at o4 to be
kind of cosy warm and partly melted at 04 and then cooled totally. I
visualize the crystals and whatever still not being quite settled in.
I visualize the totally cooled c.6 glaze as having settled to a "hard"glass
that then is slowly and PARTIALLY remelted going to c.04.
As I am so unscientific in my thinking--sorry, born that way--I visualize
the first procedure as someone being deeply asleep being woken, getting up,
being wide awake, and then lying down for a nap. I visualize the second as
someone being sound asleep, partially awake and snoozing in that cosy
in-between state....
Wouldnot the total cooling affect the "glass" so that in RE firing an
actually different glass is being fired?
Lili Krakowski
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Be of good courage....
garry price on fri 30 may 03
loss on ignition, alpha to beta and maybe back again...depending on
ingreients. yes I agree, a glaze melted and cooled all the way is different
than a glaze still in melt, and held at a lower temp. Traveling through 1060
often is a transition. As with most things and especialy glazes....the
variables are what keeps the curiosity alive, aye?
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