Carole Fox on tue 15 nov 05
I must have made a mistake when I mixes up the floating blue that made my
ware ping for a week. When I mixed the recipe again, it worked fine. The bad
batch looks just the usual glaze- but I know there is crazing I cannot see.
Would it be ok to mix a few cups of this bad batch into a new 5 gallon to
use up the poorly fitting glaze?
Also- to report back about the oval platter I was afraid to fire... The
advice I followed was to fire flat on the shelf on a sprinkling of alumina,
surrounded by kiln posts and near the top of the kiln. Overkill? Maybe, but
it worked!
Carole Fox
Silver Fox Pottery
Elkton, MD
silverfoxpottery@comcast.net
Ron Roy on thu 17 nov 05
Hi Carol,
Take a cup of the new glaze and add some of the bad batch and test it - you
can keep adding the bad glaze, testing each time - till it starts crazing
- drop back to a safe amount then figure out how much is safe to add to
your new batches.
RR
>I must have made a mistake when I mixes up the floating blue that made my
>ware ping for a week. When I mixed the recipe again, it worked fine. The bad
>batch looks just the usual glaze- but I know there is crazing I cannot see.
>Would it be ok to mix a few cups of this bad batch into a new 5 gallon to
>use up the poorly fitting glaze?
>
>Also- to report back about the oval platter I was afraid to fire... The
>advice I followed was to fire flat on the shelf on a sprinkling of alumina,
>surrounded by kiln posts and near the top of the kiln. Overkill? Maybe, but
>it worked!
>Carole Fox
Ron Roy
RR#4
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Brighton, Ontario
Canada
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Phone: 613-475-9544
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