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rules of thumb for clay body formulation

updated fri 17 mar 06

 

Eleanora Eden on thu 16 mar 06


Thankyou for the responses.

I am going to proceed by charting out the clay recipes I do have
by temperature and type and see if I can get a handle on this.

Eleanora


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>
>The criteria for a "good glass (glaze)" and the criteria for a good
>clay body are not the same. John is a great person to give the low
>down on those concepts. Some interesting history of the early
>technicians and their quest for good glazes.
>
>There ARE rules of thumb for making clay bodies, but most people don't
>refer to them as limit formulas. Most people don't seem to think of
>clay bodies in 'oxide' terms like they do glazes perhaps because they
>are not as "melted" as glazes are.
>
>I too am interested in rules of thumb for clay body formulation, so I
>hope others put in their two cents as well.
>
>Taylor, in Rockport TX
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