Want to make red slip

Ok I will. Thank all of you for your suggestions. I will try all of them. I
actually did end up making a slip out of some of the Brooklyn Red. It wasn't
as sandy as I thought it would be. I'll use that for now. I found a couple
recipes that I'm going to try out too.
Thanks again,
Crystal


"Ken" wrote in message
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| Try mixing the clay body you like to throw with into a slip consistency,
| then colour it with red iron oxide 5 - 10 % It will fit your pots
because
| it is same formulation. Apply with a soft brush to leather hard thrown
pots
| and or swill interior with slip like glazing .
| Good Luck
| Ken
| "CNB" wrote in message
| ...
| Hi all,
|
| I would like everyone's opinion. I fire cone 6 electric. I've been using
| Standard Brooklyn Red clay and love the fired brick red color.
| Unfortunately
| I hate to throw with it. It's just to sandy for me. I don't see another
| clay
| with that red brick color so I think I would like to make a slip to use
| over
| the clay that I do like. My question is what type of powdered clay
should
| I
| buy to make it? What recipes do you use to get a brick red slip?
|
| Thanks,
| Crystal
|
|
|
|

Steve Mills wrote:
A technique we recommend to customers in the same dilemma is to dry out
some of your standard clay body, weigh it, make it into a slip, sieve
out the sand or grog, add whatever oxide or stain (roughly 10 percent
for starters) you wish to use as a colourant and presto a slip that
fits!!!
We also recommend this technique to those using a coarse body for
smoke/pit/whathaveyou firing, but who want a smooth surface for
burnishing.

Steve
Bath

At what stage do you apply the slip? Would RIO (Spanish) work for staining?



In article ,
CNB writes

That's just it. I don't think I want to buy the clay anymore since I don't
like throwing with it. I'm almost out of it too. I think it would be more
work to make moist clay into slip than to take a dry clay powder and make a
slip. It would be ok if I would only be using a small amount but I plan to
use it
to cover a lot of pieces. That clay is sandy so that would be a job to
sieve out all the
sand. Yuck. I think there must be a recipe that I can use to get
the slip. I thought of terra sig but decided that's not what I want to do. I
should have
mentioned that in my post. I feel that there is to much waste with terra
sig. Maybe
one day I will take a shot at that though.
)
Crystal

"annemarie" wrote in message
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|
| "CNB" wrote in message
| ...
| Just use the clay, I often make slip from the clays I use. If it is a bit
| too sandy you can always sieve it. If you use it over a clay that fires
to
| the same cone all should be well, but of course test it.
| You can always make a terra sig with letting it stand etc and then taking
| only the very finest particles, but just a sieved slip would probably
| achieve what you are after.
| Cheers
|
|

In article , W_D_Great_Divider
writes
Steve Mills wrote:
A technique we recommend to customers in the same dilemma is to dry out
some of your standard clay body, weigh it, make it into a slip, sieve
out the sand or grog, add whatever oxide or stain (roughly 10 percent
for starters) you wish to use as a colourant and presto a slip that
fits!!!
We also recommend this technique to those using a coarse body for
smoke/pit/whathaveyou firing, but who want a smooth surface for
burnishing.

Steve
Bath

At what stage do you apply the slip? Would RIO (Spanish) work for staining?


Leather (or cheese) hard.
and
Yes.
--
Steve Mills
Bath
UK

That's funny. I had just heard of using car antifreeze not long ago. It was
used to make underglazes with Mason Stains and the person posting is said
that they called Mason Color Work's and that is the recipe they suggested.
I'm not sure what the reason if for using it. I wish I saved it but it just
seemed a little freaky to me. Although I don't know why I should worry. I
have other ingredients that I'm sure are less safe.
Crystal


"Slgraber" wrote in message
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|i saw a group studio last weekend where they used regular car antifreeze as
a
| deflocculate ingrediant.
|
| the person giving me the tour didn't know the details, but does car
antifreeze
| have that application in a pottery room?
|
| see ya
|
| steve
|

At what stage do you apply the slip? Would RIO (Spanish) work for
staining?

Although the word rio is Spanish for river (Rio Grande, Rio Rojo,) in this
case RIO is an acronym for Red Iron Oxide.
If you are firing in reduction, it can give nice varying colors of red but
be aware that in reduction it is also a flux. In oxidation, it is more
brownish to black and is less of a flux.

Tony