Graeme Anderson on wed 12 apr 06
I've used my cigarette butts in an ash glaze. 50/50 mix by weight with
some of my dark top-soil clay. Used on my buff stoneware clay. Depending
of the thickness of the glaze (roughly brushed on) the colour was a matte,
mottled khaki/dark brown.
I fired the butts during a bisc, and mixed the ash with the clay. It
would have been mainly the filter tips, not much fine tobacco ash in it.
Results were more "blah" with OPs butts. Ordinary tobacco by itself just
settled into a hard blob, almost glass like, in the bisc.
Cheers. Graeme.
Wes Rolley on wed 12 apr 06
I had a bucket of clean almond ash promised to me, and then my source,
an old friend of Beatrice Wood, said that someone had contaminated it
with cigar ash and that they would get me another bucket.
My real question is whether anyone had ever really tried using cigar ash
in a glaze?
Searched the archives, found someone else asking a similar question but
no real answer.
Ivor and Olive Lewis on thu 13 apr 06
Dear Wes Rolley,
It is possible that Cigar Ash has an enhanced amount of Potash in its =
raw composition. Some plants manufacture Pot Nitrate rather than Pot =
Carbonate. Not sure if the Nicotine plants do this, but it might explain =
why they are able to smoulder so well once they are cured !.
Make the most of what you can get your hands on.
Best regards,
Ivor Lewis.
Redhill,
South Australia.
Lauren Bellero on thu 13 apr 06
wes asked:
>My real question is whether anyone had ever really tried using cigar ash
>in a glaze?
someone who understands the science involved
can surely provide better insight, but i did try it.
can't say i tested/investigated it fully, but hubby
loves his cigars and so i just had to give it a go.
i used val cushing's ash glaze recipe (cone 6?) and
substituted cigar ash for wood ash.
because cigar ash is so much lighter, alot more
of it -- volume wise -- was required to complete the
recipe. my one test was not encouraging at all,
so i went no further.
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Lauren Bellero, Mudslingers Pottery
http://mudslingerspottery.net
Red Bank, NJ
Janet Kaiser @ The Chapel of Art on sat 15 apr 06
Hi Wes! If someone just knocked off the cigar they were smoking into a=
whole bucket of other wood ash, I would not regard that as "contamination"=
for one very simple reason... It would be absolutely *minimal* content and=
even less of an influence than the trace of a trace... A billioneth of a=
part! I happen to know, because I did some serious glaze testing of=
tobacco ash back in the 1970s. It was a bit of fun, if extremely messy and=
smelly and was simply a bit of light relief from the hundreds of celadon=
tests I was doing at the time...
But that was not your question... How did they turn out? Well, even using=
overflowing ashtrays from the many bars and pubs of my intimate=
acquaintance in that era when *everyone* smoked, it was impossible to=
retrieve enough ash to make more than a few tests. Certainly not the=
prescribed dustbinful that was considered a minimum for the ash glaze=
officienadoes around at the time. It was even very difficult handling the=
stuff... It is far lighter than wood ash.
The highest amount used was around 20% and the result? Nothing different to=
using straw or leaf ash. Very inconsistent and totally unremarkable!
FYI the recipe was adapted from a coal-ash glaze of unknown origin:
Feldspar 30
Whiting 20
Coal ash 20
Quartz 10
Ball clay 20
I do not consider cigars any different to cigarettes... Both being tobacco.=
They would also more alike in those days when there were fewer additives=
and "mild" cigarettes were either unknown or not generally smoked.=
Certainly not by "real men" like my crowd!!! LOL!!!
Janet Kaiser
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>in a glaze?
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