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multi-blue glaze, cone 10 r

updated fri 23 jul 99

 

Jan McQueary on wed 21 jul 99

I swore I'd never do this, but:

The students where I have just started teaching are nearing the bottom of
their favorite glaze, called Multi-blue, and of course the recipe is
nowhere to be found. I've got a few ideas for testing - it looks like a
Cone 10 reduction version of Floating Blue, but with a touch of copper
red added - probably a combination of cobalt, rutile and copper. Unlike
a lot of rutile blues it doesn't run significantly. Anyway, I'm going
to begin work on it this weekend, but just in case the recipe is out
there in the public domain, I thought I'd ask you folks.

DISCLAIMER:
My free e-mail service doesn't permit me to do things like surf and check
the archives, and I have searched a bunch of books and magazines - so
don't get ticked off, please!


Thanks for your help!

Jan McQueary



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Don & June MacDonald on thu 22 jul 99

>From an older Ceramics Monthly, can't remeber which issue:

Multi Blue Cone 10R (however also works at Cone 6R)

Custer Spar 384
Strontium Carbonate 85.5 (original recipe called for Barium Carb.
Whiting 114
Gerstley Borate 70
Magnesium Carbonate 31.5
EPK 59
Silica 259
+Copper Carb. 15
+Rutile 39
Results: Shiney green - blue on its own, but turns all sorts of
wonderful blues over other glazes, doesn't run unless very thick.
Hope this sounds like your missing recipe.
June
Jan McQueary wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I swore I'd never do this, but:
>
> The students where I have just started teaching are nearing the bottom of
> their favorite glaze, called Multi-blue, and of course the recipe is
> nowhere to be found. I've got a few ideas for testing - it looks like a
> Cone 10 reduction version of Floating Blue, but with a touch of copper
> red added - probably a combination of cobalt, rutile and copper. Unlike
> a lot of rutile blues it doesn't run significantly. Anyway, I'm going
> to begin work on it this weekend, but just in case the recipe is out
> there in the public domain, I thought I'd ask you folks.
>
> DISCLAIMER:
> My free e-mail service doesn't permit me to do things like surf and check
> the archives, and I have searched a bunch of books and magazines - so
> don't get ticked off, please!
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Jan McQueary
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Get the Internet just the way you want it.
> Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
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claypots on thu 22 jul 99

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Here's the recipe called multi-blue that I was given. Sounds like it might =
be
the same one.
Multi-blue---c.10 red.
Gerstley Borate 6.69
Magnesium Carb. 3.15
Strontium Carb. 8.56
Whiting 11.42
EPK kaolin 5.91
G-200 Feldspar 38.39
Silica 25.88
Copper Carb. 1.48
Rutile 3.94

Debra