Jan Goodland Metz on sun 30 jan 05
Hi,
I just wanted to say thanks to Mel for the article in Ceramics Monthly, December
2000, "Black Shino" and the 2 pages of recipes. Over the last year and a half
have fired (wood) with several of these glazes and keep using them over and
over. I haven't been disappointed yet. They really hold up even under the
variables that happen from firing to firing. Each firing I try to add another
one of the glazes. So far my favorites are, Linda's Pink, K Shino and JP's
#1188. Have also tried the soda ash in heated solution, brushed on, yielding
with great results.
If you get a chance, look these up, they are really worth spending some time
getting to know how they work. I'm firing to cone 10-12 using a white
stoneware, in a Phoenix fastfire.
So thanks Mel!
Jan
potting in southern Rhode Island
Dan Dermer on sun 30 jan 05
Mel's article with all the Shino recipes is still on the Ceramics Monthly
"must reads" web page, though I'm not sure one would find it by starting at
the Ceramics Monthly home page -- seems like they took it off their main
navigation bar. So here's the link:
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/mustreads/shino.asp
Of course, you can view all the "must read" articles by going here:
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/mustreads.asp
I've been testing the Paul Woolery shino (with added redart since I use a
porcelain clay) with decent results. Hope to have some pix of this in the
next few weeks...
-Dan
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/ddermer
Lee Love on mon 31 jan 05
Jan Goodland Metz wrote:
>one of the glazes. So far my favorites are, Linda's Pink,
>
Jan, I named this Shino from the UofMn, but it isn't "pink" (salmon
pink) unless you add 5% 6020 pink mason stain. To get yellow, you
need to add 5% vanadium yellow mason stain. These both work great
over the base shino. My friend Paul Morse used these with other
colorful glazes on his "thrown and cut" tea pots and vases.
The name came from the fact that Linda Sikora (married to Mat
Metz, any relationship?) gave it to me and it had the information about
the pink and yellow stains.
Originally it was darker, with old spodumene. I would like to
try it with low melt spodumene. I don't have access to spodumene here
in Mashiko
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Jan Goodland-Metz on mon 31 jan 05
Hi Lee,
That is really interesting, that you named that glaze. I just used it in the
last firing before the holidays. And it was more orange than pink, it has a
really nice surface. I'll try the other additions in the near future. I have
to check what spodumene I used. It might be older. The glaze was darkish.
The woman I work with, in her studio, we got a truck load of old glaze
materials from an potter in Vermont who had stopped working 10 years ago, so
I'm not sure exactly what spod I used. The Jp #1188 Orange, white, pink
shino did turn really pink in places.
Last spring we fired a kiln load of pots that were just shino glazes and
followed the reduction directions in Mel's article. Hope to do another all
shino firing again this spring. So we can fire just for those glazes. It
seems to make a difference, a whole kiln of just one family of glazes.
And no, no relation that I know of. (my family is from Wisconsin.....I grew
up in Ohio)
Thanks for the info,
Jan
Potting in Rhode Island
> From: Lee Love
> Jan, I named this Shino from the UofMn, but it isn't "pink" (salmon
> pink) unless you add 5% 6020 pink mason stain. To get yellow, you
> need to add 5% vanadium yellow mason stain. These both work great
> over the base shino. My friend Paul Morse used these with other
> colorful glazes on his "thrown and cut" tea pots and vases.
> The name came from the fact that Linda Sikora (married to Mat
> Metz, any relationship?) gave it to me and it had the information about
> the pink and yellow stains.
>
> Originally it was darker, with old spodumene. I would like to
> try it with low melt spodumene. I don't have access to spodumene here
> in Mashiko
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