Bobbi Cats on wed 25 aug 99
Hello,
Can anyone help me with a receipe for porceilian slip???
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Bobbi Cats ( UTexas ceramics student)
Vince Pitelka on thu 26 aug 99
>Can anyone help me with a receipe for porcelain slip???
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>Bobbi Cats ( UTexas ceramics student)
Bobbi -
I am assuming you are looking for a decorating slip, and not a casting slip.
The following is a decorating slip which I have used on all claybodies at
all temperatures, with great success. I have posted it on clayart before.
It is basically a porcelain body recipe, so it should work great on any
porcelain clay.
Note: when mixing a decorating slip, it should NOT be deflocculated, as
that would make it flow and intermix too readily in use, and makes it sag on
a vertical surface. The slip stays in place much better when it is
flocculated with 1/2 of 1% (of the dry materials weight) epsom salts
dissolved in the water that you then use to make the slip.
All-Temperature White Base Slip
Kaolin ------------------- 34
Ball Clay --------------- 20
Potash Feldspar ---- 27
Silica ------------------- 19
Total ------------------- 100
Plus: 8% Zircopax (opacifier)
Good luck -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka - vpitelka@DeKalb.net
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