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updated sun 22 feb 04

 

Ababi Sharon on sat 21 feb 04


Hello Clayarters

I invite you to see my last test:

http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/2056968/

The first image is representing the dreams I have the night before the
kiln's opening in crystal glazed wares: I dream that all the works have
failed!

Slide2 an interesting conversion of a recipe. This is the answer to
anyone who says that the software are only on the theoretical level.

If you are interested I shall send you the recipe.

The left for North America and the Right to the UK, For the rest of
you:

Ababi's simple crystal glaze^6 180 minutes soaking in 1055C

Seger Weight%

KNO 0.474 13.31%

CaO 0.092 2.31%

MgO 0.001 0.03%

ZnO 0.433 15.78%

Al2O3 0.319 14.55%

B2O3 0.155 4.82%

SiO2 1.828 49.21%

K2O 0.011 0.44%

Na2O 0.463 12.86%

Al:Si 5.73

Expan. 10.23

ST 334.21



No calcining.



Slide 3-5 different porcelain type claybody

For a trying to convert one of my recipes into "your materials"

ABABI'S CRYSTAL BASE 2004

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Cone 6 1210 deg.C. -

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frit 3110 67.30

zinc oxide calcined 24.60

silica 5.60

Lithium Carbonate 1.80

Alumina Hydrate 0.80

Nickel Oxide 1.70

Cobalt Oxide 0.70

Titanium Dioxide 0.70

Red Iron Oxide 0.30

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Seger Weight%

KNO 0.280 11.42%

CaO 0.116 4.09%

ZnO 0.566 28.92%

Li2O 0.037 0.70%

Al2O3 0.046 2.97%

B2O3 0.038 1.68%

SiO2 1.332 50.22%

K2O 0.025 1.50%

Na2O 0.255 9.93%

Al:Si 28.66

Expan. 10.07

ST 337.87

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The rest of the slides are
paperclay with paperclay porcelain slip.

Note the "nut" on brown mix of several colored differently groged
paperclay-bodies.On the "nut" I laid a slab of paperclay out of Laguna'
English porcelain.

Please note it cracked after the crystals had developed.

Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://ababi.active.co.il
http://www.matrix2000.co.nz/Matrix%20Demo/Ababi.htm

To Ceramics forum in Hebrew:


http://www.botzpottery.co.il/kishurim.html