Eleanora Eden on mon 8 may 06
Hi David, Beth, and all,
I have just been thinking about incorporating the carpet technique
and am delighted
that a new description of this process has just been posted. Do you
wait until the glaze
is seriously hardened or do this when it is relatively fresh?
When I did foot waxing (these days I am lowfire and use stilts but in
moving to ^1-3
am back with the old foot wax thing and so that is going through my
mind) I used to use
the ancient discarded electric frying pan and paraffin wax.
Have to get the wax temp just right, (testing on a scrap, not a pot)
too hot and it flows up
the pot, too cold and it doesn't attach well enough. But just right
it works a dream. And
the quality of the wax CAN'T BE BEAT.
I used just enough in the pan so that swirling the foot around
touching bottom would get
a perfect job every time, about 1/4" as I recall (this is a long time ago).
Best,
Eleanora
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Bellows Falls Vermont
www.eleanoraeden.com
David Woof on mon 8 may 06
Hi , I usually do it as soon as the glaze "hardens" enough from the moisture
absorbtion to be handled w/o messing things up. If I work on the pieces
longer or come back to them when dryed, I let them sit on the wet carpet
until the glaze reabsorbs and softens. couple minutes does it. works like
a charm.
David
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peering over the edge, reverently taking an irreverent look at everything.
>From: Eleanora Eden
>To: Clayart
>CC: David Woof , Beth Eisenberg-Schapera
>
>Subject: to wax or not to wax
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:19:58 -0400
>
>Hi David, Beth, and all,
>
>I have just been thinking about incorporating the carpet technique and am
>delighted
>that a new description of this process has just been posted. Do you wait
>until the glaze
>is seriously hardened or do this when it is relatively fresh?
>
>When I did foot waxing (these days I am lowfire and use stilts but in
>moving to ^1-3
>am back with the old foot wax thing and so that is going through my mind) I
>used to use
>the ancient discarded electric frying pan and paraffin wax.
>
>Have to get the wax temp just right, (testing on a scrap, not a pot) too
>hot and it flows up
>the pot, too cold and it doesn't attach well enough. But just right it
>works a dream. And
>the quality of the wax CAN'T BE BEAT.
>
>I used just enough in the pan so that swirling the foot around touching
>bottom would get
>a perfect job every time, about 1/4" as I recall (this is a long time ago).
>
>Best,
>
>Eleanora
>
>
>--
>Bellows Falls Vermont
>www.eleanoraeden.com
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