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.
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>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.
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>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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