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Gabriel Takacs
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- Issaquah, WA
- United States
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Gabriel Takacs joined George Lewter's group
Cone 6 Glaze Testing & Reporting
Collaborate on building an online list of well documented glaze recipes, with application and firing methods. Strong photo documentation. Only glazes that are mature at cone 6 will be included.Testing the glazes, and identifying their problems and fixing them. Also, if there are obvious issues just by looking at a glaze recipe (like high barium, insufficient clay to suspend or harden, too much feldspar (which causes crazing), too much clay (causing crawling, peeling), hard-to-get materials,…See More
Profile Information
- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- Ceramics enthusiast and glaze nerd. Co-founded GlazeForge.com.
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- I have 4 electric kilns in the garage. The test kiln has hundreds of firings on it for glaze formulation.
- 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?
- To fully participate in discussion.
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- home studio
- Do you have your own, or participate in other ceramics Websites:
- http://GlazeForge.com
- How did you find this network?
- search engine
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 8:53pm on January 30, 2022,
George Lewter said…
Welcome Gabriel. We have much to discuss.
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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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