Russel Fouts on sat 13 sep 03
Jerry,
It's not a commercial glaze but my variation on Mathias Ostermann's
miaolica glaze. I've eliminated the whiting as being useless, subbed
ESVA for his Bell's Dark and used silica, kaolin and Zircon Silicate
from a loca supplier. It's a beautiful fat shiny white glaze. The dry
glaze is a little dusty (I'm following the glaze surface hardening
thread) but I'm not painting on it yet. It breaks so beautifully over
texture that I'm having a lot of fun with that.
The glaze doesn't move very much at all. I dry-foot a VERY slight margin
and have never had glaze on a shelf.
It pinholes a little on application but they even right out in the
firing. I think the medium slow firing and the long soak help.
It has a slight tendancy to shiver or even crack pots if it's applied
too thickly. Ron has formulated a version using 3110 that should fix
this but I haven't tested it yet (getting my 3110 in a couple weeks)
Percent Ingredients
61.3, Ferro 3124
10.2, Ferro 3195
6.6, Ball Clay (WBB ESVA)
6.6, Kaolin (Ceramic Instruments PC33)
4.1, Silica (Ceramic Insruments)
11.2, Zircon Silicate (Ceramic Instruments PC61)
100.0, Total
70.0, Water
Temp: 7hrs to 1050c / ^04 / w/ 1hr Soak
Description:
- Nice, thick, bright, white glaze
- Breaks nicely over texture
- Flexible Temperature
- Not sensitive to application
- Doesn't run (no kiln wash)
- Can be double dipped
- Does not show drips
- Does not settle out too fast
Instructions:
- Add ingredients to premeasured water
- Sieve through 200 mesh (The ESVA? has grit that makes white spots)
- Dip in Glaze for 10 Sec, Let shine go off before dipping again
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