Ruth Ballou on wed 21 dec 05
How close this looks to Floating Blue I'll leave to others to decide.
I stay as far away as possible from Floating Blue. This glaze comes
close from what I remember. It's a 50/50 combo of two glazes. I've
gotten rid of a couple of tiny amounts of ingredients, but left in
the 2 frits. It is dependable and stable and doesn't require howling
at the moon whilst applying or firing. In keeping with the tradition
of naming glazes after foods (Nutmeg, Licorice, Raspberry), it's
called Blueberry. Fired to ^6 with slow cooling. I've not tried in
on porcelain as ^6 porcelain doesn't exist in Belgium. Usual caveats
about doing your own testing apply. If anyone tries it on porcelain,
I'd appreciate some pics. Good Luck.
Blueberry ^ 6
20 Custer Spar
13.3 Frit 3134
10 Frit 3195
18.5 Wollastonite
17 EPK
20 Silica
3 Rutile
2.3 Copper Carbonate
.75 Cobalt Carbonate
Ruth Ballou
Maryland
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Carole Fox wrote:
> Okay- I am desperate, so please don't just give me a hard time
> about not
> knowing...
>
> I mixed up my Ron Roy floating blue recipe and suddenly the glaze
> was not
> fitting my clay. Ron suggested I might have mixed it wrong so I
> mixed up
> another batch- still pinging. I use a cone 6 porcelain, but I
> recall it was
> a bad fit on some stoneware that I fired for a friend.
>
> I tried to use the glazemaster program that I got a long time ago
> (but never
> used yet!) to see if I could make some variations to try with
> different COE.
> I am clueless.
>
> I have a large dinnerware set that I am late with and I don't know
> what to
> do. Ron has given me some variations on the glaze, but they all have
> ingredients that I don't have (Frit 2378). How do I make my own
> variations
> on this glaze?
> It is:
> Neph Sy- 300
> 3134- 360
> Silica- 140
> EPK- 200
> RIO 20
> Cob. ox.- 1.2
> Rutile 40
>
> A shower of thanks awaits anyone who can help!
> Carole Fox
> Silver Fox Pottery
> Elkton, MD
> silverfoxpottery@comcast.net
>
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