Arnold Howard on tue 20 mar 12
Last year at NCECA I gave out samples of metallic dichroic on copper
foil. Has anyone had a chance to flake the dichroic onto wet glaze and
fire it? I don't think it will survive a cone 10 firing, but I wonder
how it turns out at lower temperatures.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Arnold Howard
Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
William & Susan Schran User on tue 20 mar 12
Arnold,
Think I wrote to you previously, but just in case.
Tried the flakes on cone 6 crystalline glaze - all gone, too much heat
work.
Still have some will try in a "normal" cone 6 firing.
Bill
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William "Bill" Schran
wschran@cox.net
wschran@nvcc.edu
http://www.creativecreekartisans.com
On 3/20/12 4:17 PM, "Arnold Howard" wrote:
>Last year at NCECA I gave out samples of metallic dichroic on copper
>foil. Has anyone had a chance to flake the dichroic onto wet glaze and
>fire it? I don't think it will survive a cone 10 firing, but I wonder
>how it turns out at lower temperatures.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Arnold Howard
>Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
>ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
Don Goodrich on wed 21 mar 12
Arnold, I finally got around to trying the dichroic flakes in the past mo=
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nth.
A customer had asked for an "especially sparkly" effect, so I thought it
would be worth the experiment.
The flakes had some difficulty staying on the glaze, even when applied=
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while it was wet. I found that a swipe with a glue stick on the test tile=
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surface before glazing stuck them down nicely, though.
One test tile got dichroic flakes under a colored translucent glaze,
another had flakes under clear glaze, and a third got flakes over an
already glazed/fired surface. All were then fired to 2180=3DB0F.
The flakes applied on top of fired glaze were indeed sparkly flter refiri=
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ng,
but their surface was pretty rough.
Flakes with glaze over them pretty much disappeared at cone 5-1/2, but ar=
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faintly
visible after firing. I'd say more experimentation is necessary.=3D20
Thanks for the opportunity to try something new.
Don Goodrich
http://dongoodrichpottery.com/
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:17:25 -0500, Arnold Howard=3D20
wrote, in part:
>... Has anyone had a chance to flake the dichroic onto wet glaze and
>fire it? I don't think it will survive a cone 10 firing, but I wonder
>how it turns out at lower temperatures.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Arnold Howard
>Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
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