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, 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

Ian Currie Grid Glaze Test Method

This is the place for all things Ian Currie Grid Test Method.

Feel free to post:

1. Questions

2. Tiles you have made and interesting things you discovered

3. Alternate methods

4. Anything related to this topic!

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    Joseph Fireborn

    I haven't yet tested with the currie method, but I will describe my plans here:

    1. I hope to accomplish a beautiful light blue celadon for my porcelain pots that I plan on making my production ware.

    2. I want to try using fine grit 1200 mesh silicon carbide to create reduction effects in my electric kiln. I have already started testing this with regular methods but I plan on testing much more as soon as understand the basics of currie test. These glazes will end up going on my stoneware work as I want to create crawly shinos, tenmokus and other reduction effect glazes. I don't know if it is possible, but I plan to try and find out the best I can.

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    George Lewter

    John Post does some beautiful glaze work. These are a few of his grids.

    http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/utica/burr/art/JohnPost-2014/main-pages...

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    Joseph Fireborn

    Yea looking at his grids was one of the reasons I decided to try this method. Thanks for the link for others to see though, I should have added it to the OP.