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Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
I have posted this in the single firing group and no one seems home so I'm
reposting here. I'm about to dive into single firing. The only issue I see is Oxidation has a rather flat and dull pallet in general. For color I'm currently using Pinnel's Green, Randy's Red, Honey, and Floating Blue. The only glaze I may be able to keep is Pinnell's. None of the other's have enough clay. I will be wanting to move away from using Gerstley in any case and will be working off of MC6 glazes that have high clay content. Is anyone else firing oxidation (and cone 6) and are you satisfied with your color palette and surface? Thanks, Donna P.S. The Pinnell's did not work on leather hard. Flaked right off. I really did have fun glazing and then trimming though so I'm very excited about going this route. Palette is the only issue for me. |
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Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
One piece of advice that may help you (it's helping me), was made by the
late Andrew Holden, a British Potter who wrote on single fire in the '80s. This was that up to 3 percent Bentonite can help lower clay glazes convert. Steve Bath UK In article , DKat writes I have posted this in the single firing group and no one seems home so I'm reposting here. I'm about to dive into single firing. The only issue I see is Oxidation has a rather flat and dull pallet in general. For color I'm currently using Pinnel's Green, Randy's Red, Honey, and Floating Blue. The only glaze I may be able to keep is Pinnell's. None of the other's have enough clay. I will be wanting to move away from using Gerstley in any case and will be working off of MC6 glazes that have high clay content. Is anyone else firing oxidation (and cone 6) and are you satisfied with your color palette and surface? Thanks, Donna P.S. The Pinnell's did not work on leather hard. Flaked right off. I really did have fun glazing and then trimming though so I'm very excited about going this route. Palette is the only issue for me. -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
Thanks Steve. Do you happen to know and to remember how to calculate the
weight of ingredients in a glaze from specific gravity? Once upon a time (I'm talking decades here) I think I knew.... "Steve Mills" wrote in message ... One piece of advice that may help you (it's helping me), was made by the late Andrew Holden, a British Potter who wrote on single fire in the '80s. This was that up to 3 percent Bentonite can help lower clay glazes convert. Steve Bath UK In article , DKat writes I have posted this in the single firing group and no one seems home so I'm reposting here. I'm about to dive into single firing. The only issue I see is Oxidation has a rather flat and dull pallet in general. For color I'm currently using Pinnel's Green, Randy's Red, Honey, and Floating Blue. The only glaze I may be able to keep is Pinnell's. None of the other's have enough clay. I will be wanting to move away from using Gerstley in any case and will be working off of MC6 glazes that have high clay content. Is anyone else firing oxidation (and cone 6) and are you satisfied with your color palette and surface? Thanks, Donna P.S. The Pinnell's did not work on leather hard. Flaked right off. I really did have fun glazing and then trimming though so I'm very excited about going this route. Palette is the only issue for me. -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
I found this a little while ago, and as I'm mathematically challenged I
kept it. I quote: For the mathematically challenged, here's another way to find the weight of dry ingredients in a 1 litre volume of glaze. Let's agree to use the letters "SG" for the density of the glaze in grams per millilitre. I'm told it's politically incorrect to keep calling it "specific gravity", but it's the same thing. Now the weight of dry matter in grams, in 1 litre of glaze, will be 1625(SG-1), assuming an average value of 2.6 grams per millilitre for the dry ingredients. For example, if the SG of the glaze is 1.3, the dry matter in 1 litre will be 1625 (1.3-1) which is 1625 x 0.3 or about 487 grams. Another example: If the SG of the glaze is 1.4, the dry matter in 1 litre will be 1625 x 0.4, or about 650 grams That didn't hurt much, did it? Not witchcraft. Just Brongniart's formula rearranged. A lot simpler to calculate than when set out in the usual way. John Rogers also wrote a piece on calculating glaze density and viscosity in Clayart on May 20th this year: http://www.potters.org/subject93715.htm Hope this helps Steve In article , DKat writes Thanks Steve. Do you happen to know and to remember how to calculate the weight of ingredients in a glaze from specific gravity? Once upon a time (I'm talking decades here) I think I knew.... -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
May I call you a doll? In any case it is much appreciated. Just what I
needed (I want to play with my existing glazes rather than mixing up new batches). Thanks a lot!! Donna "Steve Mills" wrote in message ... I found this a little while ago, and as I'm mathematically challenged I kept it. I quote: For the mathematically challenged, here's another way to find the weight of dry ingredients in a 1 litre volume of glaze. Let's agree to use the letters "SG" for the density of the glaze in grams per millilitre. I'm told it's politically incorrect to keep calling it "specific gravity", but it's the same thing. Now the weight of dry matter in grams, in 1 litre of glaze, will be 1625(SG-1), assuming an average value of 2.6 grams per millilitre for the dry ingredients. For example, if the SG of the glaze is 1.3, the dry matter in 1 litre will be 1625 (1.3-1) which is 1625 x 0.3 or about 487 grams. Another example: If the SG of the glaze is 1.4, the dry matter in 1 litre will be 1625 x 0.4, or about 650 grams That didn't hurt much, did it? Not witchcraft. Just Brongniart's formula rearranged. A lot simpler to calculate than when set out in the usual way. John Rogers also wrote a piece on calculating glaze density and viscosity in Clayart on May 20th this year: http://www.potters.org/subject93715.htm Hope this helps Steve In article , DKat writes Thanks Steve. Do you happen to know and to remember how to calculate the weight of ingredients in a glaze from specific gravity? Once upon a time (I'm talking decades here) I think I knew.... -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Attention Steve Mills (and other singel fire players) Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
Ok, I've been doing a lot of playing around. Some glazes seem complete
secure. Others seem fine except for on the lip. This has flaked off. Have you had this problem and is there any way to recover from it. I'm working with little tiny bowls right now so they are fairly tolerant. Do I spray the entire pot to dampen it and then just dip the lip? Do I paint the lip with corn syrup and then dip? Anyone have experience with this? I want to fire the pieces to see how the glazes look but as is they would then have to be thrown out. Also are you glazing bone dry or leather hard? Thanks, Donna "Steve Mills" wrote in message ... One piece of advice that may help you (it's helping me), was made by the late Andrew Holden, a British Potter who wrote on single fire in the '80s. This was that up to 3 percent Bentonite can help lower clay glazes convert. Steve Bath UK In article , DKat writes I have posted this in the single firing group and no one seems home so I'm reposting here. I'm about to dive into single firing. The only issue I see is Oxidation has a rather flat and dull pallet in general. For color I'm currently using Pinnel's Green, Randy's Red, Honey, and Floating Blue. The only glaze I may be able to keep is Pinnell's. None of the other's have enough clay. I will be wanting to move away from using Gerstley in any case and will be working off of MC6 glazes that have high clay content. Is anyone else firing oxidation (and cone 6) and are you satisfied with your color palette and surface? Thanks, Donna P.S. The Pinnell's did not work on leather hard. Flaked right off. I really did have fun glazing and then trimming though so I'm very excited about going this route. Palette is the only issue for me. -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Attention Steve Mills (and other singel fire players) Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
Dear Donna,
By and large I'm glazing leather hard, but I'm having a problem with one glaze that's basically granite slurry and I'm forced at the moment to glaze onto Bisque. Applied thickly it is amazing, but runs like blazes, and saturates dry unfired ware. If I try to add clay to it, it looses all its character. I've tried Bentonite, but no go, also I've added same Gum Arabic in an effort to get it to hold onto leather hard, but that doesn't really work either, so I'm between a rock and a hard place at the moment!! Mark you, if it was all easy it would be boring wouldn't it :-) Steve In article , DKat writes Ok, I've been doing a lot of playing around. Some glazes seem complete secure. Others seem fine except for on the lip. This has flaked off. Have you had this problem and is there any way to recover from it. I'm working with little tiny bowls right now so they are fairly tolerant. Do I spray the entire pot to dampen it and then just dip the lip? Do I paint the lip with corn syrup and then dip? Anyone have experience with this? I want to fire the pieces to see how the glazes look but as is they would then have to be thrown out. Also are you glazing bone dry or leather hard? Thanks, Donna -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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Attention Steve Mills (and other singel fire players) Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
"Steve Mills" wrote in message ... Dear Donna, By and large I'm glazing leather hard, but I'm having a problem with one glaze that's basically granite slurry and I'm forced at the moment to glaze onto Bisque. Applied thickly it is amazing, but runs like blazes, and saturates dry unfired ware. If I try to add clay to it, it looses all its character. I've tried Bentonite, but no go, also I've added same Gum Arabic in an effort to get it to hold onto leather hard, but that doesn't really work either, so I'm between a rock and a hard place at the moment!! Mark you, if it was all easy it would be boring wouldn't it :-) Granite will do that to you (put you between a rock and a hard place). What of spraying or brushing corn syrup on the bone dry piece and then pouring/dipping the glaze? I'm entirely making things up here but it seems the syrup might cut down the water absorbtion and get the slurry to stick. How much bentonite changes the character of a glaze. I was about to just by default add 3% to the glazes I have but I don't want to do that if this is an issue. Thanks, Donna |
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Attention Steve Mills (and other singel fire players) Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
"Steve Mills" wrote in message ... Dear Donna, By and large I'm glazing leather hard, but I'm having a problem with one glaze that's basically granite slurry and I'm forced at the moment to glaze onto Bisque. Applied thickly it is amazing, but runs like blazes, and saturates dry unfired ware. If I try to add clay to it, it looses all its character. I've tried Bentonite, but no go, also I've added same Gum Arabic in an effort to get it to hold onto leather hard, but that doesn't really work either, so I'm between a rock and a hard place at the moment!! Mark you, if it was all easy it would be boring wouldn't it :-) Steve I just read about heating up the pot before glazing. It says to heat it up as hot as you can handle. That cuts down on absorption and stress.... |
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Attention Steve Mills (and other singel fire players) Single Fire Cone 6 Oxidation
In article , DKat
writes Granite will do that to you (put you between a rock and a hard place). What of spraying or brushing corn syrup on the bone dry piece and then pouring/dipping the glaze? The latter could be worth a try. I'm avoiding spraying if possible. I'm entirely making things up here but it seems the syrup might cut down the water absorbtion and get the slurry to stick. How much bentonite changes the character of a glaze. more than 3 percent I think, but I've never gone over that. The effect on the Slurry glaze is to diminish the rich green Hare's Fur I get with the undiluted material, not by much though. I was about to just by default add 3% to the glazes I have but I don't want to do that if this is an issue. Take care Steve -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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