David Meaders on sat 29 nov 03
Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
If so I would like to correspond.
David
Ababi on sun 30 nov 03
Almost locally
40 ash
40soil
20laguna borate
among many other Unocal
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://ababi.active.co.il
http://www.matrix2000.co.nz/Matrix%20Demo/Ababi.htm
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Subject: Homemade glaze
Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
If so I would like to correspond.
David
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Jon Brinley on sun 30 nov 03
David, =20
I have gathered local clay, iron nodules ( paint rock), lime and =
a few other materials, since I began making pottery.
I find that local stuff is really a lot of work with great reward for =
me. It keeps me in the work. Unlike bought materials of the same.
Here in West Central Georgia. along the Fall Line there is a great =
abundance of materials to play with. Some good, some not so good. It's =
the enjoyment of the hunt that I like.
Jon in Midland
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Subject: Homemade glaze
Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
If so I would like to correspond.
David
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Ababi on sun 30 nov 03
Ababi Sharon
In my tour to Congo I collected cobalt
In my tour to Eilat I collected copper.
In my visit to Mel I collected the sand he has on hand.
All are homemade glazes!
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://ababi.active.co.il
http://www.matrix2000.co.nz/Matrix%20Demo/Ababi.htm
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From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Ababi
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:04 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Homemade glaze
Almost locally
40 ash
40soil
20laguna borate
among many other Unocal
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://ababi.active.co.il
http://www.matrix2000.co.nz/Matrix%20Demo/Ababi.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of David
Meaders
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:03 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Homemade glaze
Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
If so I would like to correspond.
David
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David Meaders on sun 30 nov 03
> Jon,
You are right, it's alot of hard work. I have glazes you can mix from
a bag but they are not tne same. Do you have any homemade glazes you
would share?
david
David,
> I have gathered local clay, iron nodules ( paint rock), lime and
> a few other materials, since I began making pottery.
> I find that local stuff is really a lot of work with great reward for
> me. It keeps me in the work. Unlike bought materials of the same. Here
> in West Central Georgia. along the Fall Line there is a great abundance
> of materials to play with. Some good, some not so good. It's the
> enjoyment of the hunt that I like.
>
> Jon in Midland
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Meaders
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:02 PM
> Subject: Homemade glaze
>
>
> Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
> If so I would like to correspond.
> David
>
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Zoe Johnson on mon 1 dec 03
I continue my experiments with locally found materials and materials found
on trips. I have a wonderful time, even if all I can manage to produce is
a nice transparent green glaze that likes to crawl. So far I have learned
a couple of things:
1) calcining chunks of petrified wood (from a parking lot), just makes them
harder, in fact they now seem to be one of the hardest substances known to
man, while the uncalcined pieces are fairly soft. The elder geo-kid says
it is because I vitrified the silica. Anyway, it was an interesting
mistake.
2) Rock tumblers from Harbor Freight suck. I have managed to burn out TWO
(2) rock tumblers from harbor freight so far using them as ball mills, but
my Thumler's Tumbler keeps humming away and making interesting green glaze.
3) If you want to pulverize rocks and sand real quickly, the best way is a
vibrating flat lap. It can take 30 mesh sand and make rock puree over
night. The ball mill, ie my trusty thumler tumber, takes more than a week
to do the same thing. And you end up with nice polished slabs.
4) Corundum, aka Aluminum Oxide, aka crappy sapphires and rubies, cuts even
faster than sand. Geo-kid-1 says any bits of corundum that end up in my
rock and marble soup glaze will act as a flux. Anybody agree? disagree? as
to what the effects will be? The geo-kids were cute yesterday returning
from harbor freight, running their hands thru the corundum and exclaiming,
"Rubies, Sapphires, we are rich beyond measure". Hard to believe that
mid-20 geo-kids can be that cute (still).
ZoeJ
--On Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:02 PM -0500 David Meaders
wrote:
> Is there anyone making there glaze fron locally gathered ingredients?
> If so I would like to correspond.
> David
konstantin gortinsky on mon 1 dec 03
David:
Since I teach a variety of art classes I have access to many different
materials and many of them I have tried in different applications. For
example: dust from sanding alabaster sculptures as glaze, slips from the
fines left over after puddles of water dry out. Fillings from
metalworking projects as coloring agents copper, brass, steel and the
various oxides these metals produce after being heated red hot.
And I have tried many others that did not. Keep in touch if you discover
something interesting.
Konstantin
Stephen on tue 2 dec 03
I rescently ball milled chicken grit(crushed granite from Mt. Airy N.C.)
from a local hardware store. It worked by itself as a creamy pale green
glaze at cone 10-12. It is, according to Jeff kaler, very much like
cornwall stone in composition. I got the composition off their internet
site. I also used it in in ash glazes with very good results. Unmilled, I
added it to stoneware clay for shigaraki type effects. this worked best at
High temp. At cone six it did not flux enough and made the glaze pop off in
a very few places. I use local materials mostly in the form of clays in
glazes with ashes and other materials, whiting, flint, feldspar. etc. I was
only able to use a ball mill while taking a masters level class with Jeff.
sometimes I use a cast iron mortar and pestle. I am using a rutile slip
right now that was crushed by hand. a geologist friend brought me the
rutile from North Ga. It is not much different from bought rutile. It took
a half of a day to grind one or two pounds. I don't recomend it at least
for the rutile. Colored clays are much easier to process.I hope eventually
to get or build a ball mill.
Stephen
Lee Love on tue 2 dec 03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen"
> I rescently ball milled chicken grit(crushed granite from Mt. Airy N.C.)
Have you tried any in your claybody? I understand it creates Shigaraki
type effects. I am familiar with chicken grit and out of the back it is
pretty big.. But ball milling might create some smaller pieces that could
be sieved out of the mix. I'd like to see how this looks like in a white
stoneware.
If anybody does this experiment, I'd be happy to look at the results and
compare it to Shigaraki clay.
You can see some of my shigaraki clay work here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/togeika/2003/11/24/
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Lee In Mashiko, Japan
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