Insight-Live User Group

Information

Insight-Live User Group

This is a working group dedicated to testing and sharing glaze research results on our group area of the Insight-Live Glaze Recipe Database. This is absolutely the best place to share your recipes with photos and notes. You can add notes and pictures to other people's recipes showing how your results vary from the originals, and from other people's work with the same glaze. Members are required to periodically contribute notes, pictures, or well documented new recipes to the database.

Videos are available to orient new users with using the database and the user interface, and a text based help system is available

With the online glaze recipe database, members can upload recipes and pictures, search the databases for recipes, append recipes with new notes, and create printable batch mix sheets from recipes. Now members can copy an existing recipe and modify it while comparing the chemistry of both versions.   

This group is the cone6pots portal to Insight-Live. We accept anyone with cone6pots network membership, who agrees to publish photos and/or notes of their results with glaze recipes.. To gain  access to our group's Insight-Live database, you must first join the C6P network, and then this group. Your login information will be generated and sent to you, normally within a day or two.

Database access is a benefit brought to you by supporting members of the cone6pots network.

------------------------------------

Click the button below to login to Insight-Live. When logging in to the group recipe database, type in your user ID, not your email address (which you can use for a different individual account login). If you forget your user ID or password, contact George Lewter and he will send you a new temporary ID/password.

 

Members: 17
Latest Activity: Dec 28, 2019

User Videos for Insight-Live

Tony Hanson has made some excellent user videos for Insight-Live at http://insight-live.com/insight/videos/index.php. If you watch the first couple of them you can begin to appreciate the power of working with glaze chemistry and Insight-Live to tweak your glazes to correct problems and defects.

Specific topics he covers:

A Broken Glaze Meets Insight-Live and a Magic Material (Jan 2013)

Use the calculation mode of Insight-live to make material substitutions for troublesome materials to fix problems like blistering, pinholing, settling and poor slurry and drying properties. YoutubeMP4

How to Use a Lithium Frit in Insight-live (Jan 2013)

Use the calculation mode of Insight-live and non-unity to replace lithium carbonate with a frit. Youtube

Materials and Calculation (Jan 2013)

A tour of the materials management features of Insight-live. MP4

Importing Other File Formats (Oct 2012)

How to import recipe and material data from a wide range of formats. FlashMP4M4V

Importing From Generic CSV Spreadsheet (Feb 2013)

You can import data from a sheet having recipe rows and material columns. Youtube

Using Recipe Libraries to transfer recipes to desktop Insight (Mar 2013)

You can export hundreds, even thousands of recipes in a recipe library file. Youtube

Discussion Forum

Should We Stay or Should We Go Now

Started by George Lewter. Last reply by Marina Reijsmeijer (Kleierij) Dec 28, 2019. 16 Replies

Our Insight-live glaze database is not used by many members. I just deleted all members who have not signed in or viewed any recipes since January of 2017. That leaves us with 17 ''active" members.…Continue

Insight expired

Started by Tom Humphries. Last reply by Tom Humphries Oct 23, 2018. 2 Replies

Insight live says my account has expired. Does this mean I've been booted off the group for some reason? :(

Finding the perfect clear

Started by Donna Kat. Last reply by Donna Kat Sep 2, 2018. 7 Replies

Has anyone worked with Tony Hansen's G1214W Clear? I had thought I had found the perfect clear for our studio when I found this glaze. It did not craze on Standard clays. It was crystal clear and it…Continue

My next development project

Started by Arnold Rowntree. Last reply by Jay Decker Mar 23, 2018. 4 Replies

I was searching google images for 'alkaline glazes' and saw this at VVarges page:…Continue

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Insight-Live User Group to add comments!

Comment by Darthe Hues on December 13, 2014 at 2:56pm

Hi June, thanks for your response. I posted this question in the Facebook Ceramic Recipes group and Tony answered a bit. Apparently I had added the G-200 to my materials and it was not configured correctly. I typed in G-200 Feldspar Old Blend, but the correct way is G200 Old Blend Feldspar. The screen shot is from my own account at Insight and not in the group area. So here is how the comparison looks now.  The two sets of numbers are much closer. But I don't know if The Silica Alumina ratio is ok. It was 10.2:1 with Custer and with Old Blend it is 9.9:1. Is that a lot of difference or a little. I need to watch the videos again. I wish there was a class.

Comment by June Perry on December 13, 2014 at 11:30am

Darthe, looking at your recipe subbing g-200, it raised your expansion. To get the expansion lower, which would help prevent crazing, particularly if you are glazing porcelain or some white stonewares, you might reduce the whiting a bit and up the talc. The magnesia and silica in the talc will bring the expansion down Then if you want to keep the alumina silica ratio the same, you can lower the silica a hair and up and up the clay a bit to make the recipe be closer to the original. Seems like something is very amiss with the cost. Unfortunately, I can't get into the site with the temporary user name and password George gave me yesterday. If George gets back to me with a fix for that, maybe I can get in there and check out the software. I've been using Insight since the early day when it was on a 5" floppy, so I may be able to see what the problem is.  In the meantime, you can write to Tony and ask him about the cost problem. He should be able to clarify that for you.

Comment by Darthe Hues on November 28, 2014 at 2:43pm

I have watched the videos but don't really understand how to use Insight Live. For my first project I want to substitute G-200 Old Blend Feldspar for the Custer Feldspar(which I don't have) in the MC6G Licorice (GB2). Below I have entered the original and duplicated it. Now I don't know what to do next. Also, why is the cost showing as $1,197.50 a pound? Seems a little pricy. Now that I have my kiln and raw materials I want to get going but this group seems to have fizzled out before I got here. Would love to take part in a class for glazing and using Insight Live. Thanks for any help or suggestions of how to proceed. 

Comment by Penny Berglund on April 4, 2014 at 11:10am

I put up 3 new glazes, hope you all like them!

Penny

Comment by George Lewter on March 2, 2014 at 8:03am

Tony is doing most of his social networking on facebook now, with his videos being posted on YouTube. https://www.facebook.com/tony.hansen.3990 You should probably start "following" him there to keep up with what he is doing with Insight-Live. I'm going to embed his video on improving a clear glaze because it clearly demonstrates how to use the power of Insight-Live in working with the chemistry of a glaze to improve its performance. It also shows how to import a recipe right off a web page that you might stumble upon.

Comment by Kathy Ransom on February 2, 2014 at 8:15am

I've done that in the past as well Norm but did remember to use the group log-in to no effect.

I purchased an Orton controller from Vulcan kilns on ebay.  Completed 3 bisque firings already and am very happy with it so far.  Need to get some glaze firings done ASAP as there's a show I want to enter and deadline is the 5th! I'm excited to do a soak at temp and slow down fire; anticipating some cool effects.

Comment by Norm Stuart on January 25, 2014 at 4:06pm

Remember to choose the Group Login to log-in to the Cone6Pots Insight Live.

I chose the regular Login once and found no recipes - I had a previous individual account and the browser had saved the details.

What type of electronic controller did you get?

Comment by Kathy Ransom on January 25, 2014 at 10:21am

I just purchased an electronic controller for my kiln (Vulcan is awesome!) and am ready for a big round of glaze tests. I'm working on larger forms and need some funky glazes to show texture and give them the look I need/want. I went to sign into our group on insight but username and password were rejected. Can you help me with this Tony or George?

Comment by Norm Stuart on December 9, 2013 at 9:41pm

I've uploaded the 75 glazes we use in our studio so other studio members can access them without needing to ask me.

I like seeing the different chemistry approaches various people have taken to create similar looking but subtly different glazes.

All of the test tile photos I've uploaded use our studio's very slow-cool after firing, so they look quite different to say an Alisa Clausen photo of the same glaze.

To keep a constant reference, I've photographed all of my test tiles on the bottom of the same particle board tray. I guess that my own inexpensive and less distracting version of a color calibration card.

cheap Particle Board Color Reference

The tile cooled faster was taken on a sunny day, vs a cloudy day for the slower-cooled tile on the right.

an actual Color Reference Chart

http://www.photogtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ColorCheckerD200LR.jpg

Of course there's conundrums like this photo where:

Test Tile A is exactly the same color as Test Tile B - but I'd never guess that.

Previously I could click on an Insight-Live database glaze photo to enlarge it, but that doesn't seem to be the case currently - I don't know if that's temporary, or if it this was done to compact the storage space. I get this error message-

Not Found

The requested URL /var/www/insight-live/uploads/groups/9kg34das5g/recipes/DB-1476.jpg was not found on this server.


Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at insight-live.com Port 80
Comment by David Booth on December 9, 2013 at 5:06pm

I am not a frequent user of Insight Live, but I would like to share my experience with it. I should however mention that I use Insight regularly on my own local computer. 

Insight Live has a wonderful bank of recipes. It was this that initially attracted me to the site. I did spend some time exploring various recipes, in an attempt to understand some variations in Tenmoku type glazes. I even intended to contribute photos and comments. However my intentions never really materialised. Part of the reason is the difficulty in making good closeup images which depend so much on the lighting. I am rarely able to get an image to look like the real glaze. So apart from all the other factors that influence the end result of a glaze, the image itself, at least mine, is not very reliable. Nevertheless, this is a technical problem and images do give a general idea of what the glaze might look like.  

My other blockage has more to do with the use of a large bank of recipes. My interest is understanding how glazes work so that I can adjust them to move the end result towards a particular objective. I suspect that there is almost as much work to be done in testing a new given recipe that there is in adjusting a recipe from scratch. So although the large bank of recipes has a wealth of information, from my pratical position, I have found it more productive to start from a basic recipe rather than search for a possible suitable recipe in the bank. This is not to downplay the worth of the bank, nor all the work that has gone in to its creation. However, having explored it a little earlier in the year, I find that I need to go through the process of modifying and testing myself in order to understand the behaviour of a glaze. And for this, a simple recipe is a starting point. In the end, I am convinced that understanding the chemistry and physics of a glaze is important, and for this I know no alternative other than actually doing the testing oneself. And I must admit that getting a glaze to a point where it turns out in a reliable way after each firing is a fairly long process. In practice, each firing gives me something new to mull over. A glaze never seems to be a definitive recipe. But that is just one point of view. 

I hope these comments are constructive. David Booth

 

Members (17)

 
 
 

Videos

  • Add Videos
  • View All

Use These Links to Support Us

Low cost flat lapping disc can be used on you potters wheel if you, drill bat pin holes in it, and provide a trickle of water to cool it. At amazon.com, 120 grit for aggressive material removal. Click the image to purchase 

Members have had great things to say about John Britt's new book, Mid-Range Glazes. Click the image to buy from Amazon.com

Purchase Glazes Cone 6 by Michael Bailey, The Potters Book of Glaze Recipes by Emmanuel Cooper, or Making Marks by Robin Hopper, all available at amazon.comMastering Cone 6 Glazes by John Hesselberth & Ron Roy is now out of print.

Harbor Freight is a great place to find unbeatable prices for better HVLP spray guns with stainless steel parts and serviceable economy models, as well as detail guns, all tested by our members for spraying glazes, as well as compressors to power the guns. As yet no one has tested and commented on the remarkably inexpensive air brushes at harbor freight.

The critter siphon gun is a spray alternative that is well liked by some of our members, and is available at amazon.

Amazon is also a competitive source for photo light tents for shooting professional quality pictures of your work. They also have the EZ Cube brand favored by several of our members. You might also want to purchase the book Photographing Arts, Crafts and Collectibles . . .

If you are up to creating videos of your work or techniques you might want to invest in a flip video camera

Following are a few scales useful for potters. Ohaus Triple Pro Mechanical Triple Beam Balance, 2610g x 0.1g, with Tare $169.00

And finally a low cost clone of the OHaus. The Adam Equipment TBB2610T Triple Beam Mechanical Balance With Tare Beam $99.62

ebay is a great alternative for many tools and the equipment used in the ceramics studio - kilns, wheels, extruders, slab rollers are often listed there both new and used.

Tips for Members

If you just want to spout off, it is best accomplished as a blog posting. If you want to get more guidance and ideas from other members, ask a question as a new discussion topic. In the upper right corner of the lists for both types of posting, you will find an "+Add " button. Clicking it will open an editor where you create your posting. 4/16/2014

© 2024   Created by Andrea Wolf.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service