David Hendley on thu 9 jun 05
Hey Mark,
I have done a 15-tile tri-axial blend of glass cullet, wood ash, and
local clay. I call it my "freebee glaze series", since all the materials
are free (I make my own cullet from bottles and jars).
Anyway, I can make any glaze I want with just these three ingredients,
from dry matts, to satin matts, to celadons, to runny extra-glossies.
Of course all 3 ingredients are specific to location, so your results
may be similar, but different.
If I remember correctly, the 3 corners of the blend use 70% of
one material and 15% each of the other two. The proportions
are varied by about 10% for each intermediary tile, so over the
course of 15 tiles there are lots of variations.
If you remember form our class at the Appalachian Center, I
also use glass cullet in several of my slip-glaze recipes. I call it
"poor man's frit", since it is basically a high sodium, very low
alumina, and silica frit.
David Hendley
I don't know nothin' but the blues, cobalt that is.
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
> Turns out the place i bought tile for my new house also used to make Tile.
> They had moved to a new facility and left the old place. I had been there
> looking around and saw bags of Cullet and Limestone. Any way got
> permission from
> the owner to get some materials,, got 400 lbs of lime stone in 50 Lb bags
> and
> 400 Lbs Cullet in 25 lbs bags. Found some other cool stuff also. Finally
> unloaded the truck and stacked it in my kiln shed. Cant wait to try the
> Cullet,
> want to try 33 cullet, 33 clay and 33 ash.. Fiquered thats a good started
> place. If any one else is using cullet and has some recipes please share.
> Ill
> share the cullet and limestone.I Guess the limestone is calcium Carbonate
> or
> whiting.
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