Steven D. Lee on fri 11 jul 03
I was wondering two things really. One is "Is there a safe non-toxic
glaze formula that can conduct electricity?"
The other one is "Has anyone had success electroplating their pottery?
I am interested in a cheaper version of gold plating that using gold
leaf.
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Steven D. Lee
SD Pottery - The Little Texas Potter
http:\\www.sdpottery.com
millenial_age@yahoo.com
14341 FM 112
Thrall, TX 76578
512-898-5195
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Snail Scott on fri 11 jul 03
At 04:11 PM 7/11/03 -0000, you wrote:
>Has anyone had success electroplating their pottery?
>
>I am interested in a cheaper version of gold plating that using gold
>leaf.
Electroplating is certainly possible. You will
need to coat the clay with a conductive material.
(The plating shop can recommend one.) Anyone
planning to electroplate must realize, though,
that the final surface will have EXACTLY the same
sheen as the material underneath. If it's shiny,
you get shiny; if it's matte, you get matte. Rough
clay will NOT come out looking like a chrome bumper.
Surfaces to be plated must also be perfectly clean,
as any greasy fingerprints, etc, will show in the
final surface.
If there is, as you wondered, an electrically-
conductive glaze, you could skip the coating, but
I have no idea whether any glaze could be conductive
enough to plate effectively. (Might require some
tests, with an adventurous plating service.)
Plating is charged by the square inch, and
there is also generally a minimum charge. It is
unlikely to be cheaper than gold-leafing, unless
you can get a quantity discount. Give it a trial
on a small piece - you may like what you get, but
don't plan on choosing it for budgetary reasons.
-Snail
John Rodgers on fri 11 jul 03
Steven, I used to do a lot of china painting on porcelain. Porcelain is
porcelain is porcelain, whether its a pot or a figurine. My work was
figurines. To get a shiny gold with gold china paint (real gold!), the
porcelain was first painted with a yellow glaze and then fired. The
yellow just helped with the under coat glaze. Then the gold was painted
over the glaze and then fired. The result was a very shiny gold. For a
muted gold the gold was painted directly on the porcelain clay. It gave
the gold a burnished look. So whatever is under the gold is going to
influence the outcome in the appearance of the gold overlay.
Regards,
John Rodgers
Birmingham, AL
Steven D. Lee wrote:
>I was wondering two things really. One is "Is there a safe non-toxic
>glaze formula that can conduct electricity?"
>
>The other one is "Has anyone had success electroplating their pottery?
>
>I am interested in a cheaper version of gold plating that using gold
>leaf.
>
>***************************************************
>Steven D. Lee
>SD Pottery - The Little Texas Potter
>http:\\www.sdpottery.com
>millenial_age@yahoo.com
>14341 FM 112
>Thrall, TX 76578
>512-898-5195
>***************************************************
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