Frances Howard on wed 20 jul 05
Dear Ron,
Thank you so much for your clear and simple answer. I knew the answer would
be simple, but you would be surprised how many people over the years haven't
known it. It is not only clear and simple, but it paves the way for
further experimentation. I belong to a group at Atlantic Potteries here in
Dartmouth NS who meet weekly and spend a day principally on glazing. We use
your book as our base most of the time, it has been an enormous help and is
our basic yardstick. So with this clarification and your previous posting
that refiring is equivalent to firing a cone higher we will hopefully be
moving along. Some of the group sell their pots, most don't. but every
Thursday we enter that magic world together. Frances.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Roy"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: layering glazes
> Hi Frances,
>
> If we soaked long enough I would expect them to get mixed completely.
>
> As it is - we usually turn our kilns off shortly after the glazes are
> melted - so they don't have enough time to get together much.
>
> RR
>
>
> >When one is layering glazes, e.g. chun white under licorice or slate blue
> >or chun white over licorice or slate blue, or using Mel's advice of three
> >base glazes with different oxides added, what is it that keeps the layers
> >apart in the heat of the kiln? The fired effects are all so different.
> >To the non chemist one would assume that everything would mix together
> >like a cake, though I know that it doesn't. But I don't know why. I
> >guess there's any easy answer. Could anyone tell me please?
>
>
> Ron Roy
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