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making crayons / underglaze pencils

updated sun 28 mar 04

 

easley59 on wed 24 mar 04


Look in the archives, subject "underglaze pencils".
I generally read my List via eScribe, and it's easy getting to a thread =
index from there, too.
This was discussed quite some time ago and there are a number or recipes =
for you there.
I never did make any, but sounds like fun.
Let us know how you do........
Pam in Seattle

Ron Collins on fri 26 mar 04


Last year, I posted a recipe for "roll your own" underglaze pencils, that
cost practically nothing......they work fine..........Melinda Collins,
Antigua, Guatemala

Lee Love on sat 27 mar 04


Ron Collins wrote:

>Last year, I posted a recipe for "roll your own" underglaze pencils, that
>cost practically nothing......they work fine..........Melinda Collins,
>Antigua, Guatemala
>
>
>
Melinda, I found this in the archives:

>>I just used equal parts ball clay, talc, and added colorants/oxides to
>>taste, and rolled my own....can sharpen with little pencil sharpener...they
>>work fine.....I fired to about 800 c. Melinda
>
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