Rick Mace on sat 19 sep 98
A fast way to make the white crackle clean in your white crackle raku
pieces is to use a small propane torch on the finished work. But, be
careful ... it's best to do this having NOT put the pieces in water. If you
have put them in water ... god help you when you use the torch ... Oh ...
those "popped out sections."
So, do your white crackle glaze on your raku and then, without putting the
piece in water first, turn on the torch and clean away any smoky grayness.
I guess the secret on work that has been put into water is to ... I hate to
even encourage it ... slowly and carefully hit the surface with the torch
trying to dry it out before you burn away the gray. BE WARNED ... sections
of "pot" can blow out if the piece is not totally dry!!!!!!!
Ah!! impatience!
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Sheilah Bliss on mon 21 sep 98
In a message dated 9/19/98 6:17:42 AM, you wrote:
<<----------------------------Original message----------------------------
A fast way to make the white crackle clean in your white crackle raku
pieces is to use a small propane torch on the finished work. But, be
careful ... it's best to do this having NOT put the pieces in water. If you
have put them in water ... god help you when you use the torch ... Oh ...
those "popped out sections."
So, do your white crackle glaze on your raku and then, without putting the
piece in water first, turn on the torch and clean away any smoky grayness.
I guess the secret on work that has been put into water is to ... I hate to
even encourage it ... slowly and carefully hit the surface with the torch
trying to dry it out before you burn away the gray. BE WARNED ... sections
of "pot" can blow out if the piece is not totally dry!!!!!!!
Ah!! impatience!
I'd, again, love to share my web page... that is to say ... well ...
Rick Mace Pottery
www.panworld.net/~rmace/
>>
Hi Rick -
I find a certain amount of glee in torch-ering my raku pieces too! If I've
gotten a piece wet that I later decide I need to torch-er, I let it dry out
for a week or so then hit it with the impliment of fire.... lightly at first,
all around the piece to get it good & warmed up, then focus the fire more on
the areas that need cleaning. For some reason, after they've been wet and
then sit around, they seem to clean up faster and easier.
Sheilah Bliss
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