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electric glaze help!

updated tue 23 jun 98

 

Paul Jadick on fri 19 jun 98

I have recently put my gas firing on hold and have turned back to my
electric kiln. This is old familiar territory for me. I fire my students
work at 6^ and am not excited by these glazes for my own work. I worked at
^8-10 oxidation. Although gas firing may not be "the holy grail" it has
different properties that can't be duplicated in the electric kiln.
(toasting clay, flashing, reduction colors) Let's not start a war over
this! We all have opinions.

The one glaze that I am having trouble substituting for is Celadon. I need
a Celadon "behaving" glaze. That is, a clear/transparent, pale glaze that
highlights carving and pools the way Celadon does. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. I have thought of Mason stains, but don't know which
one works in which base glaze

Any other contributions of knockout glazed for porcelain or stoneware
between 6^-10 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Georgia Tenore
e-mail me at pjadick@worldnet.att.net

Ilene Mahler on sat 20 jun 98

I am also going to cone 10 ox. but I will be using Laguana big
White has anyone used this for oven ware and any good glazes for it I'm in
conn thanks Ilene At 09:27 AM 6/19/98 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I have recently put my gas firing on hold and have turned back to my
>electric kiln. This is old familiar territory for me. I fire my students
>work at 6^ and am not excited by these glazes for my own work. I worked at
>^8-10 oxidation. Although gas firing may not be "the holy grail" it has
>different properties that can't be duplicated in the electric kiln.
>(toasting clay, flashing, reduction colors) Let's not start a war over
>this! We all have opinions.
>
>The one glaze that I am having trouble substituting for is Celadon. I need
>a Celadon "behaving" glaze. That is, a clear/transparent, pale glaze that
>highlights carving and pools the way Celadon does. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated. I have thought of Mason stains, but don't know which
>one works in which base glaze
>
>Any other contributions of knockout glazed for porcelain or stoneware
>between 6^-10 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Georgia Tenore
>e-mail me at pjadick@worldnet.att.net
>
>

Bryan Stecker on sat 20 jun 98

Thry this ^6 glaze:

Celadon to Teal

Gerstley Borate 21
Wollastonite 8
Neph. Sy 30
EPK 10
Flint 31
100
for celadon:
cobalt carb .125
chrome ox .125

for teal blue
cobalt carb .5
chrome ox .5

Good Luck!

Anne Stecker
rekcets@open.org
Salem, OR

Paul Jadick wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I have recently put my gas firing on hold and have turned back to my
> electric kiln. This is old familiar territory for me. I fire my students
> work at 6^ and am not excited by these glazes for my own work. I worked at
> ^8-10 oxidation. Although gas firing may not be "the holy grail" it has
> different properties that can't be duplicated in the electric kiln.
> (toasting clay, flashing, reduction colors) Let's not start a war over
> this! We all have opinions.
>
> The one glaze that I am having trouble substituting for is Celadon. I need
> a Celadon "behaving" glaze. That is, a clear/transparent, pale glaze that
> highlights carving and pools the way Celadon does. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. I have thought of Mason stains, but don't know which
> one works in which base glaze
>
> Any other contributions of knockout glazed for porcelain or stoneware
> between 6^-10 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Georgia Tenore
> e-mail me at pjadick@worldnet.att.net

Tony Hansen on mon 22 jun 98

>The one glaze that I am having trouble substituting for is Celadon. I need
>a Celadon "behaving" glaze. That is, a clear/transparent, pale glaze that
>highlights carving and pools the way Celadon does. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated. I have thought of Mason stains, but don't know which
>one works in which base glaze

Mason has a 'celadon green'. Put it in a transparent glaze. If the glaze
has some suspended bubbles that will really help its highlighting. A
little
zircopax (i.e. 4%) would be another option to enhance highlighting
properties.

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