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, non-specific materials, etc) then it needs to be fixed as part of the testing I would say.
Tony Hansen included links below to procedures for a few glaze tests that could be done. Another good one would be to appraise the rate at which it settles, how hard is the dry layer, the water content of the slurry, the viscosity, these could be measured with commonly available tools.
I'm fiddling with the idea of doing mocha diffusion over the top of glazes so that they come through sharper. To do this, I need a reliable, very high ball clay cone 6 glaze as a starting point for further adjusting with Insight. Any recommendations would be appreciated
Cone 6 Glaze Testing & Reporting
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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, non-specific materials, etc) then it needs to be fixed as part of the testing I would say.
Tony Hansen included links below to procedures for a few glaze tests that could be done. Another good one would be to appraise the rate at which it settles, how hard is the dry layer, the water content of the slurry, the viscosity, these could be measured with commonly available tools.
Links:
Thermal shock test
Melt flow test
Glaze hardness test
Glaze leaching test
high ball clay cone 6 glaze
by Lawrence Weathers
Dec 28, 2014
I'm fiddling with the idea of doing mocha diffusion over the top of glazes so that they come through sharper. To do this, I need a reliable, very high ball clay cone 6 glaze as a starting point for further adjusting with Insight. Any recommendations would be appreciated