Paul Lewing on wed 21 apr 04
on 4/21/04 6:05 AM, Susan Setley at ThirdRockFan@AOL.COM wrote:
>> In some glazes the color of the raw iron seems to make little difference.
>> One type of glaze in which it makes a huge difference is in oxidation iron
>> reds.=A0 The redder the iron is before it's fired, the redder it will be
>> after.=A0 When I first started testing that kind of glaze, I tested 7
>> different forms of iron (black, yellow, and 5 kinds of red, including
>> Spanish), so I know this to be true.
>> Paul Lewing, Seattle
>> =20
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> Paul, that's fascinating -- have you tried it with Celadons?
Not to that degree, but back when I first made the switch from reduction to
oxidation, one of the things that impressed me most was that I had never
noticed much difference in the colors produced by different forms of iron.
But in oxidation, it seemed to make a lot of difference.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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