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warren mackenzie's glassy green

updated sun 18 mar 07

 

Nancy on sun 11 mar 07


Does anyone have this recipe? I've been searching for it for 2 years
and have tried many substitutes but none have been as beautiful nor have
they pooled blue like this does. It is a Cone 6 transparant recipe.

Thanks in advance

Nancy
hilltoppottery.com

Lee Love on mon 12 mar 07


On 3/12/07, Nancy wrote:

> Does anyone have this recipe? I've been searching for it for 2 years
> and have tried many substitutes but none have been as beautiful nor have
> they pooled blue like this does. It is a Cone 6 transparant recipe.

Find his book. His glassy green recipe is in it. What might
have given you trouble, is that this green was originally cone 3 and
he switched it to cone 1.

If you do a search using these words in Google:

+mackenzie +green +warren +glaze

You will find my mention of this glaze, along with the cone
6 recipe I adapted from Chappel that looks like Mack's cone 3. I
knew his glaze was a boro-lithium glaze and was reminicent of lead
glazes, so I looked for something similar in Chappel. My next steps
were going to be getting the other transparent lead effects using
other colorants, but I got busy with gas and wood firings. May play
with it againt when I get set up in Mpls.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi

Donald Burroughs on tue 13 mar 07


You can find that glaze here perso.orange.fr/smart2000/Cone6_glazes3.htm
It is in French,but if you use the online dictionary you can easily
translate it.

Donald Burroughs

Randy McCall on wed 14 mar 07


There are a couple of green glazes which one?

How about posting it>
Randy
South Carolina
Pottery Web site

http://members.tripod.com/~McCallJ/index.html

Lee Love on wed 14 mar 07


On 3/13/07, Donald Burroughs wrote:

> It is in French,but if you use the online dictionary you can easily
> translate it.

Actually, that is my glaze, modified from Chappel. It is completely
in English.

--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi

Lee Love on thu 15 mar 07


On 3/14/07, Randy McCall wrote:

> There are a couple of green glazes which one?
>

The one with these notes;


Notes : I was looking for something like Warren MacKenzie's Glassy
Green that would fire at ^6 instead of ^4. The Boron Lithium in
Chappel's glaze book looked close so I added the same oxides as
MacKenzie uses in his ^4. MacKenzie doesn't use his ^4 anymore, but
found a ^1 glassy green he uses instead. This is also a nice
transparent ^6 without colorants.
submitted by Lee Love

--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi

Nancy on fri 16 mar 07


Lee

Thank you for the link. I was able to get the glaze into english and
will try it.

Nancy
www.hilltoppottery.com



Lee Love wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Donald Burroughs wrote:
>
>> It is in French,but if you use the online dictionary you can easily
>> translate it.
>
> Actually, that is my glaze, modified from Chappel. It is completely
> in English.
>
> --
> Lee in Mashiko, Japan
> Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
> http://potters.blogspot.com/
>
> "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
> Henry David Thoreau
>
> "Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
>
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Lee Love on sat 17 mar 07


On 3/17/07, Nancy wrote:
> Lee
>
> Thank you for the link. I was able to get the glaze into english and
> will try it.

Welcome. Because MacKenzie's green is at a non-standard cone,
originally made for a cold oxidation area of his big kiln, and it has
some qualities of old lead glazes, I looked through Chappel for
something similar. MacKenzie's green is a boro-lithium glaze and
there is only one cone 6 recipe that relates in Chappel. I used the
same amounts of copper and iron and the results were what I liked.

If you test other oxides, please share your results.


--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi