Mert & Holly Kilpatrick on fri 19 sep 03
Not being familiar with Laguna Chun Red glaze, I did a Google Image search,
and then a search for just "Chun Red". That one came up with some gorgeous
chun reds on Bob Compton's site, and also this very interesting site about a
pottery in India:
http://www.auroville-products.com/mantra/intro.htm
(I don't know if Helen has already listed this, I don't have time to check
all the sites she mentions although I do browse some of them.)
Holly
East Bangor, PA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Mueller"
> I have been nose to Master Cone 6 glazes for six months now and have a
> much better understand of glazes that I did at the start. Being
> relatively new to the clay world I like the idea of being involved in
> the creation of my own glazes. Before this adventure I used Laguna
> glazes and loved Laguna cone 5 Chun Red as a glazed which I layered with
> other glazes and the effects were interesting.
Barbara Mueller on fri 19 sep 03
I have been nose to Master Cone 6 glazes for six months now and have a
much better understand of glazes that I did at the start. Being
relatively new to the clay world I like the idea of being involved in
the creation of my own glazes. Before this adventure I used Laguna
glazes and loved Laguna cone 5 Chun Red as a glazed which I layered with
other glazes and the effects were interesting.
I can't even begin to figure out how to make this type of glaze on my
own. If any one has an idea where to begin I would appreciate it. I
fire electric at cone 6.
Thank you for any direction.
Barb
Susan Setley on fri 19 sep 03
In a message dated 9/19/03 7:39:21 PM, martznbarb@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
<< I have been nose to Master Cone 6 glazes for six months now and have a
much better understand of glazes that I did at the start. Being
relatively new to the clay world I like the idea of being involved in
the creation of my own glazes. Before this adventure I used Laguna
glazes and loved Laguna cone 5 Chun Red as a glazed which I layered with
other glazes and the effects were interesting. >>
I don't know, but don't let anyone make you feel inadequate and lazy because
you haven't learned this yet. I can't imagine anything more silly than, for
instance, spending a lot of time in a beginning wheel class teaching the
students "how to make their own glazes." There are other things to concentrate on.
I see absolutely no shame in following recipes for glazes even - gasp - when
they come from a book. Glazes are complex.
it reminds me of the old PC users (think maybe 10 or more years ago) who used
to try to one-up themselves with their esoteric and arcane knowledge about
how their computers worked. They looked down their noses at people who just used
their computers and weren't fascinated with the minutae -- even when they did
great things with the computers such as writing fine literature. :)
You can only master so many skills at once. I am an amateur, and I would
rather concentrate on learning to throw better.
Britt Britt on fri 19 sep 03
Barb,
I don't know the recipe, but I do know it is a fake reduction. Probably
has about 0.5% silicon carbide in it to make the red. That is why is pin
holes and likes to be fired twice or about to cone 7.
Hope that gets you started,
John Britt
Alisa Clausen on sat 20 sep 03
Dear Barbara,
If you could describe the glaze, i.e. surface, color, transparency, etc.
maybe I could work with you on finding a recipe to jump off from. You can
email me privately and we can try to work it out for you. As far as getting
started, I can repost a sort of guideline I once wrote just to get people to
jump in and get testing and mixing glazes.
regards from Alisa in Denmark
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