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antique recipe lost

updated fri 8 sep 00

 

Jeanette Smith on mon 4 sep 00


I used to have a recipe for ^8-10 reduction called "SHANER'S GOLD"
It is a beautiful soft orangy tan on brown clay and I'd love to use it
again.
When we moved to Florida after my husband retired, I pretty much gave up
potting. Retirement gets boring, so I've decided to take pottery
courses at
the local college where they have a big gas kiln. I'm not happy with
their glazes and I'd like to introduce this one in particular to them.
Does anyone have a copy of it they'd be willing to share?
Reading all the messages and exchanges of ideas and expertise on this
website has fired up my enthusiasm for pots again. It's wonderful.
Thanks, Jeanette

Fredrick Paget on tue 5 sep 00


See Glaze Base at The Ceramic Web at
http://art.sdsu.edu:591/glazebasesearch.html .
Shaner's Gold is in there. I searched for it by putting a 10 in the cone
field and clicking search, It came up in the first page of results, I tried
a search on Shaner's in the Name field but did not get it that way.
Fred Paget


>From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA

Dewitt on tue 5 sep 00


At 22:29 9/4/00 -0500, Jeanette Smith wrote:
>SHANER'S GOLD

A quick websearch using www.google.com found the following clayart posting
from Feb 98.

deg

==============
Mark,

I have the following recipe for Shaner's Gold Glaze (C-10, Reduction)
from
the February 1980 issue of Ceramics Monthly:

Bone Ash 2.8%
Talc 3.8
Whiting 20.1
Custer Feldspar 49.7
Kaolin 23.6
TOTAL 100.0%

ADD: Yellow Iron Oxide 3.8%
Rutile 3.8%

Dennis in Stafford, VA
==============

Rikki Gill on wed 6 sep 00


I don't believe I have ever tried this formular, but it came from the person
I bought my berkeley potters guild studio from, about 15 years ago. She
loved it. I'd be interested in the results.
Shaner glaze
cone10 reduction

custer feldspar 2635 grams
e.p.k. 1250
talc 200
bone ash 150
whiting 1065 total 5300

orange
red iron oxide 3%
rutile 4.1%

red
red iron oxide 3.7%
retile 1.8%

yellow [maybe this is what you call gold?]
red iron oxide 1%
rutile 4%

Please test carefully, I am no glaze guru. Good luck. Rikki
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanette Smith
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:01 AM
Subject: ANTIQUE RECIPE LOST


>I used to have a recipe for ^8-10 reduction called "SHANER'S GOLD"
>It is a beautiful soft orangy tan on brown clay and I'd love to use it
>again.
>When we moved to Florida after my husband retired, I pretty much gave up
>potting. Retirement gets boring, so I've decided to take pottery
>courses at
>the local college where they have a big gas kiln. I'm not happy with
>their glazes and I'd like to introduce this one in particular to them.
>Does anyone have a copy of it they'd be willing to share?
>Reading all the messages and exchanges of ideas and expertise on this
>website has fired up my enthusiasm for pots again. It's wonderful.
>Thanks, Jeanette
>
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Jeanette Smith on thu 7 sep 00


Thank you for sending me the web site address. I'm new at the computer
and really appreciate all the wonderful nuances of finding information.
It's been so interesting and helpful to read all the messages going back and
forth. I have now collected several variations on the recipe for
"Shaner's Gold" so by the time I finish trying them all in very small batches,
I hope to have found one that fits the clay at the college. Thanks, Jeanette

Fredrick Paget wrote:

> See Glaze Base at The Ceramic Web at
> http://art.sdsu.edu:591/glazebasesearch.html .
> Shaner's Gold is in there. I searched for it by putting a 10 in the cone
> field and clicking search, It came up in the first page of results, I tried
> a search on Shaner's in the Name field but did not get it that way.
> Fred Paget
>
> >From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
>
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Jeanette Smith on thu 7 sep 00


I believe that the formula you give for orange is the one I used as "gold."
I didn't know about the others though, so thank you for answering, and
I plan to try all three. It may be that none of them will work on the clay the
college uses, but we need to experiment a little. Thanks, Jeanette

Rikki Gill wrote:

> I don't believe I have ever tried this formular, but it came from the person
> I bought my berkeley potters guild studio from, about 15 years ago. She
> loved it. I'd be interested in the results.
> Shaner glaze
> cone10 reduction
>
> custer feldspar 2635 grams
> e.p.k. 1250
> talc 200
> bone ash 150
> whiting 1065 total 5300
>
> orange
> red iron oxide 3%
> rutile 4.1%
>
> red
> red iron oxide 3.7%
> retile 1.8%
>
> yellow [maybe this is what you call gold?]
> red iron oxide 1%
> rutile 4%
>
> Please test carefully, I am no glaze guru. Good luck. Rikki
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeanette Smith
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:01 AM
> Subject: ANTIQUE RECIPE LOST
>
> >I used to have a recipe for ^8-10 reduction called "SHANER'S GOLD"
> >It is a beautiful soft orangy tan on brown clay and I'd love to use it
> >again.
> >When we moved to Florida after my husband retired, I pretty much gave up
> >potting. Retirement gets boring, so I've decided to take pottery
> >courses at
> >the local college where they have a big gas kiln. I'm not happy with
> >their glazes and I'd like to introduce this one in particular to them.
> >Does anyone have a copy of it they'd be willing to share?
> >Reading all the messages and exchanges of ideas and expertise on this
> >website has fired up my enthusiasm for pots again. It's wonderful.
> >Thanks, Jeanette
> >
> >___________________________________________________________________________
> ___
> >Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
> >
> >You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> >settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
> >
> >Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
> melpots@pclink.com.
> >
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at melpots@pclink.com.