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updated thu 16 nov 06

 

Craig Clark on wed 15 nov 06

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Walley, I do not think what you have said is controversial in the
slightest. Indeed, these are calmly spoken words of wisdom. I, on the
other hand, am the wild eyed guy down the road who is yelling and waving
his hands about wildly trying to get folks to pay attention to what you
have just said.
Craig Dunn Clark
619 East 11 1/2 St
Houston, Texas 77008
(713)861-2083
mudman@hal-pc.org

Wally wrote:
> Hello Deb, and others,
>
> I realise that this opinion will be highly controversary, and might
> probably get me spanked in public on this forum, but in my personal
> opinion, functional use for raku just doesn't make any sense.
>
> There is no way any raku-glaze will ever get low-fired raku food-safe,
> bacils and bacteria will allways find their way through the cracks,
> and enjoy to make countless new babies in a non-vitrified body, no
> matter how many layers of lacquer or other vicious chemicals you apply.
>
> The sad thing is that these artificial skins allways add a plastic
> look to your object, and hide the beauty you were originally looking
> and striving for, without adding any long-lasting protection, but
> giving a false impression of safety on the contrary.
>
> If you go for functional, use high-fired vitrified bodies and
> food-safe glazes.
>
> If your Dada is Raku, tell your customers the function is Nada.
>
> Unless you include 2 family-packs of Kao-pec or other anti-diarrhea
> medicine in the wrapping of your sales......
>
> For what it is worth, and for as long as this planet still stays alive.
> Wally.
> Schoten, Flanders, Belgique.
> www.wallyasselberghs.be
>
> -- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Deborah Thuman wrote:
>
>> Miroslava Randova asked a number of questions about functional raku. I
>> will be doing some raku for the first time next semester, and I've been
>> told that raku cannot be used for food. Are there food safe raku
>> glazes? If so, are any of them available commercially? For a lot of
>> reasons - most of them health related - I do my best to avoid making
>> clay or glazes from scratch.
>>
>> Thank for the info on my last raku question and for the help I'll get
>> on this question.
>>
>> Deb
>> http://debthumansblog.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
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