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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.
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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. Youtube, MP4
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. Flash, MP4, M4V
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 0 Likes
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 0 Likes
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 0 Likes
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 0 Likes
I was searching google images for 'alkaline glazes' and saw this at VVarges page:…Continue
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Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 16, 2012 at 5:01am
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I logged in last night on my laptop and spend quite a long time browsing recipes. It was great. I did try to use the "email" button to send some to myself, but couldn't get that to work. I'll try browsing again later with my smartphone.
Reply by George Lewter: I don't think the email function for recipes is implemented yet, but you can set a batch size, and print out a mix sheet. All the info for that glaze except the picture print along with it.
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Comment by Don Olliff on February 14, 2012 at 11:56am
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I'm having trouble logging into the site. Help...
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Work has been sucking up all my time lately. I finally got some new pieces glazed yesterday. I will try to check in tonight. Not sure my account is setup.
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Comment by George Lewter on February 9, 2012 at 5:37am
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I tested the batch size feature that Tony added that will recalculate any recipe for whatever total batch size you want. 500 g, 1000, 5000, 7500, 10000. You can print a mix sheet with all the recalculated amounts. Very cool!
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I have made the information contained on the pages for this group viewable by the public, so our activities here will show on the cone6pots main page, and be crawlable by searchbots. This will allow more people to be aware of the work being done on Insight-Live and allow more people to join the group.
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Remember if you want to import as CSV, click the example link on the importer in Insight-Live to see the format it wants. Actually use that as your starting point. If anyone has suggestions on how the format could be more robust, please let me know. Actually, it would be nice if it contained columns for a PictureBaseName.
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I've gotten into the database a couple of times but my recipes are all in a scribbler right now so I'm working on getting them into a spreadsheet so I can save them as CSV type and upload them. I tried for a while on one today but will need to do some more research to figure out where I'm going wrong. I'm working on my windows based laptop as I have a bit of a learning curve to climb before I try my accessing the database with my phone, Mac, or IPad.
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We can only do broadcast messages directly from here. To contact a member privately, you need to click their name link or picture icon to go to their profiile page. Once there, in the left column you will see a "Send a Message" link that will open a message editor window. Once finished, and you click "Send", the message will go to that person's inbox here as well as to their regular email account.
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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
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