Lee Love on fri 20 may 05
joethepotter1948 wrote:
>even question buying the book
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joethepotter1948,
As a woodfire potter working in Japan, I can't see how I would get
anything out of this book that we can't learn here on the web. If the
book were at my library, I would be happy to browse it. I can't see how
it is a "cheap shot" to understand why it might not be useful to
everybody. It is a policy of mine not to buy books that do not allow
"appropriate usage" of the materials therein, as allowed by copyright laws.
A book that has been extremely helpful to me is:
John Britt's The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes, Glazing & Firing at
Cone 10,
published by Lark Books. You can read more about it here:
http://www.johnbrittpottery.com/pub.htm
John's book helped me have a break thru in getting my American type
shinos working here. Looking at the flashing slip recipes and high
alumina shinos in this book help realize I was barking up the wrong
tree, trying to reformulate my old shinos into Japanese materials.
My first tests were of John's recipes that had fine alumina oxide added,
but I subbed alumina hydrate. John says in his book that the hydrate
doesn't melt as quickly. He was right. My tests were an ugly gray. Then
a lightbulb went off! My Korean Kaolin has more alumina in it than
kaolin back home. Korean kaolin already has extra alumina in it! So I
just did lineblends of korean kaolin and neph sye, adding lithium
carbonate at 3% and got a whole stable of Minnesota shinos ranging from
white to deep red.
My current test, (ones I put in Euan's kiln) is subbing petalite for
lithium carbonate and local materials for neph sye. It is exciting to
have old standbys working again!
>The rules of copyright (ALL copyright) were made to keep people from
>having their written work stolen from them, so why does our society
>think all rules were made to be broken, bent, or somehow gotten
>around? Where's our honor? What happened to ethics?
>
>
It really isn't a copyright issue and it is a smoke screen to call it
such. (you remember, the secrecy was originally only because the book
was new.) But, if people ask for help here and they can't post the
recipe they are working with, it really narrows down WHO can help them
find a solution. This kind of secrecy hinders progress, because as
wonderful as Ron and John are, they don't know everything. :-)
--
李 Lee Love 大
愛 鱗
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
"With Humans it's what's here (he points to his heart) that makes the difference. If you don't have it in the heart, nothing you make will make a difference." ~~Bernard Leach~~ (As told to Dean Schwarz)
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