Ababi on mon 22 sep 03
Back to the white glaze.
If you did not fire it yet, prepare another plate or tile; divide to
half with wax resist. On one half write T for tin and on the second U or
Z for the zircon silicate you use.
Spread out of a saltshaker or a Coca Cola bottle that has some tiny
holes in the corks spread - key powder, the left over of the key man who
makes the key for you home&car. (The whistling keys are useless here!)
Out of your old raku reduction pails break with a hammer the rust and
spread it too.
Glasses can be tried t too.
Again you will see which opacifier you like better.
Between the lines I add the most important most expensive most economic
tool. Ohaus!
There is no potter's house without a-haus (o-haus).
http://www.balances.com/750.html#Metric%20Attachment
With the tare addition
I must add here an old Hebrew joke: This is about how clean I work!
"I take a shower once a month if it is needed or not!"
This is a good reason to buy the mechanical one, no dust problem or
electricity when the wet slurry is spilled off!
I see now the gurus say: Ababi Ababi is this the way you work? OK
Because of this reason I work with disposal jars and spoons.
I have a cobalt jar chrome jar etc.
When I put a new jar, especially of a colorant I weigh it, though they
are all out of the same carton. If I would not do it I would have TCG
(tin chrome green) instead of red.
The adviser at my supplier was annoyed by my repeating questions.
I was heart and purchased The Magic Of Fire by Tony Hansen.
Tony, tells you the unscholarly, all he knows about materials and oxides
without scaring you.
When you read the book, you don't feel like it is chemistry. Just
explanation about what and how to use this or that!
Besides it is in the computer!
I think most of it if not all is free now in Tony's site.
http://www.digitalfire.com
Back to business: Now we shall take:
90 base
10 ultrox
in six tesing jars.
To jar 1- 2 copper oxide
Jar 2 3 copper oxide
To jar 3 4 coper oxide.
To 4 5 copper oxide
To six 7 coper oxide.
Apply
On white claybody and mark underneath
Take a terra cotta or dark clay, bisqued of course; draw flowers or
lines with wax resist- add some food color to the wax to see what you
have done.
Deep each sample in a different test out of 1-6.
I believe the last test will give you green with gray speckles.
I did not deal with you how safe are these glazes. All I do is helping
you to discover the beauty of this media even when your are not willing
to jump to the pool.
The last test before making glazes yourself:
This time 50 grams will be fine.
You need 5 jars.
To your supplier's glaze
Add: 10-20-30-40 and 50% Magnesium carbonate light.
Mix well. You will apply it when it will be thick like sour cream.
Apply a few times until it start crack.
Fire and choose your lichen glaze. To your favorite one before applying
add 1-2% CMC.
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910
http://www.matrix2000.co.nz/Matrix%20Demo/Ababi.htm
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