Electric Mid&Hi Fired Ceramics
Insight-Live User Group
This is a working group dedicated to testing and sharing glaze research results on our group area of the Insight-Live Glaze Recipe Database. This is absolutely the best place to share your recipes with photos and notes. You can add notes and pictures to other people's recipes showing how your results vary from the originals, and from other people's work with the same glaze. Members are required to periodically contribute notes, pictures, or well documented new recipes to the database.
Videos are available to orient new users with using the database and the user interface, and a text based help system is available
With the online glaze recipe database, members can upload recipes and pictures, search the databases for recipes, append recipes with new notes, and create printable batch mix sheets from recipes. Now members can copy an existing recipe and modify it while comparing the chemistry of both versions.
This group is the cone6pots portal to Insight-Live. We accept anyone with cone6pots network membership, who agrees to publish photos and/or notes of their results with glaze recipes.. To gain access to our group's Insight-Live database, you must first join the C6P network, and then this group. Your login information will be generated and sent to you, normally within a day or two.
Database access is a benefit brought to you by supporting members of the cone6pots network.
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Click the button below to login to Insight-Live. When logging in to the group recipe database, type in your user ID, not your email address (which you can use for a different individual account login). If you forget your user ID or password, contact George Lewter and he will send you a new temporary ID/password.
How to prevent database pollution or how to clean up the insight-Live data. Your views please.
My main reason to use Insight-Live is the chemistry calculation and comparison between recipes. Many recipes entered into the database fail to calculate chemistry, because the materials are misspelled, named differently or the colouring oxides are included. I cannot change the recipe when I am not the owner. So what should I do? Let's take Leach Clear as an example.
Material "frit,Ferro 3124" does not exist in the Materials data and hence the calculation fails.
I could
1- copy the recipe and change it but that results in recipe pollution
2- ask the owner to change it, but I hate to bother him, especially since he entered very many recipes
3- add "frit, Ferro 3124" to Our Materials with a reference to Ferro Frit 3124 and do something similar for "feldspar, Custer" and "kaolin, calcined". This pollutes the Our Materials data.
On top of this solution 3 does not work when coloring oxides or eg. bentonite are specified as materials and not as additions.
And I still have to revert to solution 1 when I need to replace a material that I cannot buy here by one that I can get.
So, what do you think the best approach would be?
Norm Stuart
I have the "Our Managed Materials"
China Clay - linked to the chemistry for generic Kaolin
Wood Ash - linked to Digitalfire chemistry for Hardwood Ash
there's a huge variance in wood ash, but this is what "Wood Ash" will be unless otherwise specified.
There are others to choose from.
Feb 9, 2015
Norm Stuart
Unless I missed some, all of the glaze 708 recipes in our Insight-Live database contain only linked raw materials. A number of these glazes include one or more color variations.
The only remaining problems are glazes where the Additions are not separated from the recipe, primarily in the imported glazes. I won't be changing those unless I find some pressing need to do so on an individual basis.
Feb 10, 2015
Marina Reijsmeijer (Kleierij)
I never dreamt my post would lead to this spring cleaning :) You did a lot of work, thanks very much. The recipes are so much more useful when it is easy to compare the chemistry.
Norm Stuart said:
Feb 10, 2015