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help - still cracking!!!

updated thu 4 jun 98

 

Dai Scott on wed 3 jun 98

Hi, JuliE (with an E)! Try laying your frames on a thin bed of silica
sand or some other medium that will allow the clay to move as it shrinks
during the glaze firing (the silica will act like tiny ball-bearings). It's
possible the clay is "catching" on your shelves, thus creating stress. I
sometimes have problems with tiles cracking---some loads almost half will
crack, and some loads NONE crack. Who knows? Good luck---keep trying.
Something will work.

Dai Scott in Kelowna, B.C. where the garden is overrun with salad stuff and
I'm thinking one zucchini plant would have been enough.