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Norm, I like your posts on Materials Science from Alfred University. Unfortunately the link(s) don't work. Any ideas?
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Fred
Norm I see an Antique White on the Lakeside Pottery web site but no recipe. That is the one I am talking about.
Norm would like to try your antique white if you don't mind since you have used some of my glazes. Would greatly appreciate it. I used a similar glaze in gas but have not been able to find one like that in electric.
I found all the Alberta Slip glaze recipes on the Plainsman clay website. The base glaze looks good on white clay too. I look forward to trying out more of them.
Oh, and one alias that wasn't me, but I wish had been, was 'Borax Fritz', back in probably 1980 in the pages of... Ceramics Monthly?
Norm, I've had a heap of aliases, Bogus Cognomen is another of them...
I kind of like being somewhat masked, and though I've been a potter a long time, I'm just restarting, and this cone 6 world is one I'll have to learn, and I'll make stupid mistakes, my glaze notebooks were lost in a flood, but hey, they were mostly cone 10 anyway.
I'll probably come out of hiding pretty soon.
Back in the day... we potters had to meet up, some were generous, some secretive, I'm so very pleased to see the spirit of open sharing, mutual help, and support that is out there on the internet for potters. I hope I'll be as helpful in the community.
Norm that's sounds like a toxic mess and a lot more complicated. I have hit on a nice metallic look using the Flaky Lime Green glaze on Laguna's brown clay that looks black at C6. I have only used it on tiles and pour the glaze over them to keep a even consistent finish. I have seen the metallic clay at the Fort Worth NECCA I think that was around 97-98. It was a new product then and very pricey. Denice
Norm you definitely keep the forum interesting, have you done any electroforming. A newcomer on the Ceramics Monthly Forum was wanting to know if anyone else was using that technique. I vaguely remember it from some ancient Ceramic Monthly magazines that are on discs. I won't be trying it but it is very interesting. I still make you own glazes and experiment with them but try to stay away from most chemicals because of my M.S. Denice
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