Janet Starr on thu 14 dec 06
Eleanora,
The book is not out yet - will be at the end of Dec., so that is why no one
has it yet. I got a telephone # (858) 759-6746 to contact John Conrad and
order directly. I really don't know if he would prefer if you waited for
the dealers or not.
I'm also very interested because I work in Cone 3 (for the same reasons he
states in the Ceramics Monthly ad). Richard Zakin was a big proponent of
cone 3. I've developed my own glazes, but it would be really nice to try
some new ones that might even work with fewer test tiles.... Perhaps
everyone won't react like I'm insane when I say I work in cone 3.
Janet
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Janet Starr
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featuretile@gmail.com
Snail Scott on fri 15 dec 06
At 05:48 PM 12/14/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>...Perhaps
>everyone won't react like I'm insane when I say I work in cone 3.
I worked at ^4 for years. There are many
possible firing temperatures, each with
their own merits. The relatively recent
standardization of 'mid-range' as ^5-6
is convenient for those who work with
commercially-prepared materials, but it
would be a shame if that made working at
other temperatures 'weird'.
I switched to ^6 from ^4 about a decade
ago, not because of creeping commercial
standardization, but because my handy ^4
home-mixed clay body had a whole lot of
iron in it, and though it vitrified
nicely in ^4 reduction, I needed another
two cones of heat-work to flux it when I
switched to oxidation. I do find the
availability of commercial ^6 products
to be a convenience, though, and I often
buy little jars of premade glaze rather
than test recipes for just a small area
of single project.
-Snail
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