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a glaze tip

updated sat 18 may 02

 

Ron Collins on fri 17 may 02


I want to pass along a tip that I had to learn the hard way...I am now =
using porcelain and transparent/translucent celadons, yellows, golds, =
etc that I never did in Texas....my celadon kept getting green spots no =
matter what I did...I sieved, I turbo mixed...turns out that I used a =
bucket that had chrome glaze in it.....in order to mix large batches in =
5 gallon buckets, I decided, with the delicate translucent glazes, never =
to use an old bucket, but get a new one....the old buckets can be reused =
for darker opaques, but now I am more conscious of what I put the glaze =
IN.....Melinda Collins, Antigua, Guatemala