Jennifer Baumeister on wed 30 mar 05
Barbara,
Mmmmmmm....If you replace the clay body with ketchup and the drop of
hydrogen peroxide with a dash of soy sauce ..
,you will get a pretty good sweet and sour sauce......
Jen
PS. my guess is that the peroxide is reacting with the vinegar... Try mixing
in an large open container.
>"Spooze
>Spooze is similar to Magic Water. Its used to join greenware (unfired)
pieces together. Some people report that it can be used on bisqued pieces as
well.
The recipe seems to have come from Peggy Heer, a ceramic artist from
Alberta, Canada.
1/3 part dry, finely crushed clay (whatever clay body you are using)
1/3 part corn syrup
1/3 part vinegar
a drop of hydrogen peroxide to keep it from fermenting"
Barbara Urik on wed 30 mar 05
Hi to all!
What a mess I made while trying to make spooze! After adding all the ingredients to a large bottle I shook it to mix. The cap popped off & it sprayed all over me & my studio & both of my dogs. It was more intense than a 2 liter bottle of soda shaken on purpose & it kept on fizzing. I used the following recipe for spooze that was posted on Jan 21:
"Spooze
Spooze is similar to Magic Water. Its used to join greenware (unfired)
pieces together. Some people report that it can be used on bisqued pieces as
well.
The recipe seems to have come from Peggy Heer, a ceramic artist from
Alberta, Canada.
1/3 part dry, finely crushed clay (whatever clay body you are using)
1/3 part corn syrup
1/3 part vinegar
a drop of hydrogen peroxide to keep it from fermenting"
No harm was done, except waking my dogs from their afternoon nap. My questions are: Is this what it is supposed to do?... or is there something wrong with the ingredients I used? ...or the recipe? Should I omit the hydrogen peroxide? If I omit the peroxide how should it be stored?
I'd like to make another batch to use with my porcelain clay (which I will stir, not shake)
but I'd like to make sure this recipe is correct.
Still dripping in spooze,
Barbara Urik
Alisa Liskin Clausen on thu 31 mar 05
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:20:41 +0000, Barbara Urik
wrote:
> >The recipe seems to have come from Peggy Heer, a ceramic artist from
>Alberta, Canada.
>1/3 part dry, finely crushed clay (whatever clay body you are using)
>1/3 part corn syrup
>1/3 part vinegar
>a drop of hydrogen peroxide to keep it from fermenting"
>
>
Dear Barbara,
Peggy Heer made Spooze and since then, like most recipes, they are tweaked
and altered.
There is nothing so critical in this mixture where you can really make a
grave mistake. It is in parts, and if one part is slightly bigger or
smaller, it will work. I tend to make it after consistency, so I really
have no idea what the parts volume size are in relationship to each other.
I start with an amount of powdered Kaolin or other clay that fills the
container I am using, usually one liter, and then add a sizeable dolop of
corn syrup, molasses or honey (whatever is most abundant in the kitchen)
and vinegar to the consistency I want to work with. You can also add paper
pulp which I do, Papooze. That seems to work well to hold in the dampness
longer, extending the drying time, which is what I want to repair a crack
which occured in the first place due to fast drying.
Do not worry over this recipe, as it as mixture with a wide, user friendly
margin for variations.
regards from Alisa in Denmark
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