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Esther Blue Breaks Green_DSC1687
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Comment by Sharon Canfield on February 14, 2017 at 7:02am
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So we have names like Lisa's black for small plates we made for our niece and Lisa's red for a friend. Like I said, very original names:)
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When I say we I mean my husband, Jim and I. He does the throwing and I do the glazing.
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We call it Esther Blue because I was making a piece for my cousin Esther:) Very original name right! But it works for us because we know what blue we are talking about.
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It is very stable and non runny. I have been using a small lidded canister for soaking my mouth guard every morning in Polidant for three years and the color of the glaze has never changed, doesn't leech. I had to make some changes to the base glaze to get it to fit our stoneware clay. The original glaze recipe is taken from Mastering Cone 6 Glazes by John Hesselberth and Ron Roy on page 86 High Calcium Semimatte Base 1. I did not post the glaze because I did not change enough for it to be a different glaze so it wouldn't be right for me to post something from their work. But for the colorant I used 6% ceramic grade rutile, 2% red iron oxide and 2% cobalt carbonate and fired electric cone 6.
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Very lovely glaze. Is it stable and non-runny?
Did you share the recipe? I've tried to get Clear BLue to work for me but so far it is not looking like the sample posted here last year.
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