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Dave Lyons
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- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- amateur
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- Functional stoneware and tiles,
- All our content is viewable by the public. Why do you want to be a member, when you can already see everything as a non-member?
- Cone 6 glazes and combinations of glazes for my own use.
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- community center
- How did you find this network?
- referred by friend
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prepare a pot with a burnished/terra sig surface
Bisque fire to cone 010
pour ferric chloride (x2) allow to dry
place a crumpled sheet of aluminum foil on a table
put pot on foil
add sea salt, cupper sulphate, drift wood, copper chore boy, miracle grow, etc).....a little goes a long way......choose 1,2,or all....
Wrap the foil tightly around the pot like a baked potato. Try to keep some of the chemicals/organics 'up' on the pot (not just let them fall around the base)
FIre in a raku kiln to about 900-1100 degrees F ( I place a shard of bisque with a raku clear glaze on it in the kiln with the potatos.....when it starts to melt/bubble...I turn off the kiln.....SAFETY.....wear a respirator and limit access to the kiln during firing....toxic fumes....wear mask when peeling off the foil as well....experiment...experiment...experiment.
That is a nice looking bowl dave.......mind sharing how you built it? I'm guessing textured slabs placed inside a form? It would look great as well done in porcelian and left white without glaze.
Welcome to the website Dave. I really like the bowl in your profile pic. Look forward to seeing more.