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updated fri 30 dec 11

 

Jackie.Miller.Clay on thu 29 dec 11


When I attended a workshop several years ago there was another student from=
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ansas City that had a trailing slip that she applied on bisque. I think she=
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alled it "Reeve's Trailing Slip." Does anyone know about, have a recipe or =
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ave experience with this slip? She was firing a porcelain body to cone 10. =
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r does anyone have something similar?

Jackie

Steve Mills on thu 29 dec 11


Jackie,

Try this, it's a recipe using UK materials.=3D20

SLIP FOR BISQUE

High fire: Parts By Weight

Calcined Kaolin.....50
HP71 Ball Clay (a very plastic clay) ...............50
Potash Feldspar...........90
Calcium Borate Fritt...10

I also have this one for around 1080oC

1080 or thereabouts PBW

Ball Clay..........................15
Kaolin..............................15
Calcined Kaolin...............20
Calcium Borate Frit.........20
Talc...................................15
Flint...................................20
Zirconium Silicate...............5

Steve M


Steve Mills
Bath
UK
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On 29 Dec 2011, at 17:07, "Jackie.Miller.Clay" M=3D
> wrote:

> When I attended a workshop several years ago there was another student fr=
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m Kansas City that had a trailing slip that she applied on bisque. I think =
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he called it "Reeve's Trailing Slip." Does anyone know about, have a recipe=
o=3D
r have experience with this slip? She was firing a porcelain body to cone 1=
0=3D
. Or does anyone have something similar?
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> Jackie