"Lithium Carbonate or Lithium Fluoride are fluxes which make glazes runny. As a color, lithium contributes only a clear glass.
If you leave out the lithium, you have to replace it with more of another flux material like the nepheline syenite or the…"
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5 to 10 years in the bucket and its not the same.
Started this discussion. Last reply by Norm Stuart May 9, 2019. 8 Replies 0 Likes
5-10 years ago I mixed up a bucket of Pete Pinnell's Weathered Bronze Green cone 6-7. It was fine years ago and produced just the look I wanted. This time the results were not good. The glaze is very…Continue
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Norm Stuart replied to Otto Wenger's discussion 5 to 10 years in the bucket and its not the same.
"I would suggest you add 20% Ferro 3269 Frit to the Weathered Bronze Green, which is my variation to make sure this Cone 10 glaze recipe melts fully at Cone 5/6. I doubt the results were changed by aging, but a reaction with the type of…"
Norm Stuart replied to Otto Wenger's discussion 5 to 10 years in the bucket and its not the same.
"I made Barbara's Strontium Turquoise Matte on the LEFT fired on four different clays.
and I replaced the Strontium with Barium on the RIGHT.
It's a typical Barium Blue as the Strontium or Barium shift the green color to blue, but not even…"
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