Lily Krakowski on sun 22 jun 03
Thank you all for all the answers.
Am I correct then in saying this:
"Tweaking" means making successive, relatively small adjustments to a glaze
recipe in order to perfect the glaze? This may mean small changes to create
better fit, color, durability, or to make the glaze fire more agreably at a
certain temperature?
"Formulating" or "exploiting" or "recalculating" a glaze may be done instead
of "tweaking" or along with it or simply to make changes more rational and
the recipe simpler. This would mean taking the formula and adjusting the
fluxes and silica and alumina to what theoretically should work, testing,
and like that.
My original notion that "tweaking" fits in to Singer's remark that molecular
formulae ignore that the same formula, filled by different materials, can
look quite different, then would hold. And my thought that any REAL change
in a formula is NOT tweaking, but recalculating, formulating a similar but
new glaze is agreed with by some, not others.
Is that kindof in the ball park?
As to GlazeFinch. That was meant for EDOUARD, WHO LET ME DOWN in speaking
of "tweaking" instead of giving us the French word! Tweak/pinch in French
is "pincer" . A pinçon is the mark left by a pinch. But pinson is a
finch--a French finch that is.( The words are pronounced identically)
...Alors?
Lili Krakowski
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Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
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