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waxy glaze ^6-^10

updated sun 22 dec 02

 

Ababi on sat 21 dec 02


As a result of seeing, Reading and being fascinated By Carleton Ball book, I fall in love
with the waxy glazes. I had one before but never used it correctly.
I tested a glaze was posted y John Post in 19997:
A decorative glaze:
WAXY WHITE^6 TO ^10
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Cone 6 1222 deg.C. -
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Custer feldspar 41.00
SILICA 20.00
TALC Nital 15.00
GB Average 12.00
Dolomite 7.00
ENGLISH KAOLIN CC31 5.00
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Seger Weight%
KNO 0.218 6.67%
CaO 0.332 6.97%
MgO 0.450 6.78%
Al2O3 0.257 9.81%
B2O3 0.147 3.83%
SiO2 2.933 65.94%
K2O 0.134 4.71%
Na2O 0.084 1.96%
Al:Si 11.40
Expan. 6.56
ST 358.96
The result:
The glaze looks to me like the glazes (as they look in the book and the net of
Japanese tea bowls) some decorative pinholes not fully mature, but enough to make
it a wonderful glaze please see it in:
http://members4.clubphoto.com/_cgi-bin/getImage.pl?imgID=14906108-23d5&trans=
If it does not open the last slide in:
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/185990/
The last slide,the one in the LEFT

Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel