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.
My next development project
I was searching google images for 'alkaline glazes' and saw this at VVarges page:
http://vvargespottery.typepad.com/vvarges_pottery/2011/01/further-h...
Apparently its an iron - tin alkaline glaze. I like the way it breaks yellow to brown. It's a bit like the Albany slip glaze with tin and lithium. There's no Alany slip in Australia but I'm motivated to try and come up with something similar.
I'll try iron, tin and rutile in a 3110 based glaze, can anyone else suggest a starting point?
Jay Decker
This is interesting, but I am new to glaze development and have couple questions. What do you mean by “enough kaolin to float the frit”? What does it accomplish? Why do you want to do it?
Mar 23, 2018
Arnold Rowntree
Yo Jay, to float the frit means to do something that counteracts the tendency of frit to sink to the bottom of the bucket and go hard. So hard that it takes forever to stir your bucket of glaze and get all that powder to float around again with the water so you can dip your pots again. Kaolin does that and can keep some materials from falling out of suspension even if only for a time. Its one of the principles I learned from reading Tony Hansens materials, he's the owner of Digital Fire and Insight Live. I've always liked Tony's stuff and in the last ten years or so I've concentrated on learning to use Insight which has made the most difference to my pottery over my 45 years of dabbling.
Mar 23, 2018
Jay Decker
Thanks. Funny you should mention Tony... I recently purchased an Insight subscription and have been reading his webpages.
Mar 23, 2018