Earl Brunner on wed 17 sep 03
You might have an idea of what you want. But you didn't communicate that
to US very well. Your absolute BEST bet is to use a glaze recipe that
you know and love and mix the batch. When you say they are great, that
pre-assumes on our part that you know they are good and you have used
them. You aren't going to get any better than that.
We don't know WHAT about the Amoco glazes you DON'T like, and if color
isn't a factor, it's hard to imagine what it is that you DO want.
Define "better texture". What is better? If you have read this list
for any length of time at all you should know that PEOPLE ON THIS LIST
COULD NO MORE AGREE ON WHAT THAT MEANS THAN WHICH CHURCH IF ANY TO GO
TO. What were you thinking?
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Diane Mead
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:23 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: ^ 4 - 6 commercial glazes
I have tons of great ^6 glaze recipes and thereabouts, but we are in a
project now with a deadline and we won't have time to mix glazes from
scratch.
Does anyone recommend any of the commercially prepared ones? We have not
liked our Amoco much--they are okay but we aren't crazy about texture at
all. As you reply, please know that time is our enemy on this one.
Normally
my students would mix up some batches, but right now we are in a
terrible
time crunch. Color is not a big worry right now. We would like to see
better texture than what Amoco offers us. If this fails we will need to
delay and go back to John Hesselberth's ^6 book.
Thanks
diane
Snail Scott on wed 17 sep 03
At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
>We would like to see
>better texture than what Amoco offers us.
What sort of texture is 'better'? -Snail
Diane Mead on wed 17 sep 03
I have tons of great ^6 glaze recipes and thereabouts, but we are in a
project now with a deadline and we won't have time to mix glazes from
scratch.
Does anyone recommend any of the commercially prepared ones? We have not
liked our Amoco much--they are okay but we aren't crazy about texture at
all. As you reply, please know that time is our enemy on this one. Normally
my students would mix up some batches, but right now we are in a terrible
time crunch. Color is not a big worry right now. We would like to see
better texture than what Amoco offers us. If this fails we will need to
delay and go back to John Hesselberth's ^6 book.
Thanks
diane
Laura Kneppel on wed 17 sep 03
Hi Diane,
Spectrum makes some nice cone 6 glazes. Laguna's Moroccan Sand Cone 5
glazes are nice, too and I have fired them at both 5 and 6 without too
much difference that I've noticed. I've had some good colors with
Opulence's cone 6 dry glazes, too.
Good luck!
Laurie
Sacto., CA
rockyraku.com
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:23 AM, Diane Mead wrote:
> I have tons of great ^6 glaze recipes and thereabouts, but we are in a
> project now with a deadline and we won't have time to mix glazes from
> scratch.
> Does anyone recommend any of the commercially prepared ones? We have
> not
> liked our Amoco much--they are okay but we aren't crazy about texture
> at
> all. As you reply, please know that time is our enemy on this one.
> Normally
> my students would mix up some batches, but right now we are in a
> terrible
> time crunch. Color is not a big worry right now. We would like to see
> better texture than what Amoco offers us. If this fails we will need to
> delay and go back to John Hesselberth's ^6 book.
> Thanks
> diane
>
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