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microwave oven

I just became the owner of a new microwave oven I don't have a current use for. Has anyone found something to use one for in pottery?

Started by Lawrence Weathers in Pottery Equipment

7 May 21, 2014
Reply by Rodney Allen Roe

maggie moo glaze

Maggie Moo  breaks nice over slip G200      20 frit 3134    20 wollastonite  10 epk  21 talc     11.5 silica    17.5 tin   3,96 zinc  2,45…

Started by juli long in Glazes - Recipe Exchange

3 May 21, 2014
Reply by juli long

Supporting Links

Do you use the links when you buy?  Do you understand the importance to our network that your use could mean? What other links should we ad…

Started by Nadine Mercader in Network User Guide

9 May 20, 2014
Reply by Nadine Mercader

Can one predict the appearance of a glaze? (part II: tri-axial graphs of the Flux, Glass-formers and Amfoteres)

In a previous post, I discussed briefly a method to predict -with some approximation - the possibility to predict the appearance of a glaze…

Started by Daniel Spruyt in Glazes - Development and Adjustment

5 May 17, 2014
Reply by Daniel Spruyt

Bentone-EW

I've found Bentone-EW has incredible suspending power compared with VeeGum or bentonite. And best of all it doesn't lump together in cold w…

Started by Norm Stuart in Ceramic Materials Education

1 May 15, 2014
Reply by Chantay Poulsen

Mixing Commercial glazes

Ok Newbie time... I've never mixed my own glazes or anything, I haven't fired anything yet, but I am going to soon.  I bought around 5 di…

Started by Tom Humphries in Commercial Glazes

1 May 10, 2014
Reply by Nadine Mercader

White suger powder lookalike glaze

Hi, I have been following this forum for months and have finally found the courage to do my first posting. I am a ceramics hobbyist for aro…

Started by Tan Boon Wee in Glazes - Recipe Exchange

4 May 9, 2014
Reply by George Lewter

Sandblasting

SandblastingAs announced in the discussion about water etching, I will describe my -limited- experience about sandblasting. Sandblasting ca…

Started by Daniel Spruyt in Altering and Decorating Forms

3 May 8, 2014
Reply by Daniel Spruyt

Dave's Blue

I got the following recipe from a studio where I was taking class.  I can't figure out how to recalculate the amounts.  I want to be able t…

Started by Chantay Poulsen in Glazes - Recipe Exchange

9 May 6, 2014
Reply by Chantay Poulsen

what makes you trash a pot?

I was wondering.....about some of my pots that I don't like for one reason or another. Time to dump and break them.  What makes you trash y…

Started by juli long in Philosophical and Artistic

4 May 6, 2014
Reply by Nadine Mercader

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