claybair on wed 16 aug 06
Nancy,
See http://www.bigceramicstore.com/Supplies/Glaze/MysticDryCone5.htm
What claybody are you using and are you using witness cones?
I'd advise going directly to the source and talk to Laguna. see
http://www.lagunaclay.com/laguna.htm
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
Tucson, AZ
http://claybair.com
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From: NancyBraches
I purchased a Laguna mystic dry glaze called "Turbulent Indigo". It says it
is a cone 5 glaze. I tried firing it at cone 5 and yuck is the best word I
have for it...it was almost a solid dark blue with no break up...no
shimmering just plain ole' bland. So I decided to try it at Cone 6. The
coloring is beautiful, break up...yep...shimmering...yep. Running.....all
over! and also Crawling. Now if I put it on really thin on cone 6 it
doesn't run but I also don't like that it's not as smooth as I'd like. So I
try the heavier application and it's beautiful but runs.
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Nancy Braches on wed 16 aug 06
I purchased a Laguna mystic dry glaze called "Turbulent Indigo". It says it is a cone 5 glaze. I tried firing it at cone 5 and yuck is the best word I have for it...it was almost a solid dark blue with no break up...no shimmering just plain ole' bland. So I decided to try it at Cone 6. The coloring is beautiful, break up...yep...shimmering...yep. Running.....all over! and also Crawling. Now if I put it on really thin on cone 6 it doesn't run but I also don't like that it's not as smooth as I'd like. So I try the heavier application and it's beautiful but runs.
I purchased these from Bailey Supply, I don't think it has anything to do with the packaging, etc since everything else I have gotten from them has been just fine
Is there something I can add to this glaze that will make it more stable at Cone 6? My other dry Laguna mystic glazes (Mojave and Layered Fern) don't have the same problems, they both fire beautiful at Cone 5 and 6.
Thanks in advance for any insight
Nancy
Hilltop Pottery
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Snail Scott on thu 17 aug 06
At 11:24 AM 8/16/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>...It says it is a cone 5 glaze. I tried firing it at cone 5 and yuck is
the best word I have for it...it was almost a solid dark blue with no break
up...no shimmering just plain ole' bland. So I decided to try it at Cone
6. The coloring is beautiful, break up...yep...shimmering...yep.
Running.....all over!
Sounds fussy. Why fire only to exactly
^5 or ^6? Maybe ^5-1/2 is what it needs.
Or try ^5 bit with a bit of a soak at
maturity?
-Snail
Nancy Braches on thu 17 aug 06
Snail
Wonderful idea but this is probably a problem for me since I have 2 manual kilns and only use witness cones and the conesitter. I am investing as much as I can into the studio and the electric conversion for the kiln is out of my budget as of now.
Any idea of how to do this with my manual kilns?
Thanks again :)
Nancy
Snail Scott wrote: At 11:24 AM 8/16/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>...It says it is a cone 5 glaze. I tried firing it at cone 5 and yuck is
the best word I have for it...it was almost a solid dark blue with no break
up...no shimmering just plain ole' bland. So I decided to try it at Cone
6. The coloring is beautiful, break up...yep...shimmering...yep.
Running.....all over!
Sounds fussy. Why fire only to exactly
^5 or ^6? Maybe ^5-1/2 is what it needs.
Or try ^5 bit with a bit of a soak at
maturity?
-Snail
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