Hi George, I'm interested in the Insight Live User-Group.  Would you please send me some instructions on how to join? 

I just came from the dermatologist and received a shot to stop the dermititus on my hands.  Seems to be coming from something related to the pottery.  Would appreciate hearing from other potters on how they handle this type of situation.  How about gloves?  What kind do they use?  I'm hoping it's just the glazing where I am forced to wear the gloves, but just am not sure at this point.  Can't give up the pottery though.

I love this website....it's my absolute favorite!

Congrats on your switch to full time potter George.  This site has grown and made terrific changes over the past 3-4(?) years since I first joined and I'm excited to see where you'll take it when you aren't spending 40 hrs a week in a corporation!

Thanks George. Very busy teaching a full load at a college and making pottery. Already participating in a crystalline glaze forum. I've been doing crystalline glazes for several years at cone 6. Just had an article about my process published in Clay Times:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/claytimes/2012spring/

Article starts on page 30.

Bill

thank you, time to start mixing glazes  :-)

Hi George, Tom Waggle, Donna Ferrara and myself started out by making comments/questioning glazing and have ended up having a discussion re achieving the look of "Wood/Salt" fired pots at Cone 6. I thought perhaps we could post this as a discussion topic? If so, could you copy these conversations etc across to a discussion page please. It might be of interest to other members but may not been seen where the comments are at present.  There are other relevant comments posted on todays 'Latest Activity' page.

http://cone6pots.ning.com/photo/img-1217?commentId=2103784%3AComment%3A58907&xg_source=activity

Thanks Jan

Hi, George. Yes, living on an island can have its disadvantages - the cost of shipping is horrendous. I noticed you've been experimenting w/SH cone 6 glazes in oxidation. Me too! I attended two of SH workshops - 2005, 2008. Looking forward to collaborating w/other potters via cone6pots network. Thank you for contacting me.

Beth

P.S. I was born in Lansing!

Hi George,

Registered for Insight live, but don't know my user id or password. Please help. Will entering the group provide access to Insight live or do I have to download the software?

Wes

OOPS! Sorry George I wrote 'John' by mistake, I've just had a look at the potters you listed and only one of them is In Auckland but may be on to something with A chap from Hawks Bay, as I'm origanaly from there and may be doing a quick drive by.Cheers Rose

Thanks John will Google them, it would be lovley to see some studios while I,m away and although photos are great its always great to see others work in the flesh, so to speak.

Cheers Rose

Thank You George for your comments on the wine lushes! Love making these forms...the challenge for me is to create a flowing form from two separate pieces. My love of wine seems to be helping :)

HI I'm a new member of this site. I do tile and I fire at cone 6. I am confussed about the cone 6 data base and testing. Is there a group of people testing each glaze and posting their results, or do we just send in what we are doing to share it with others. Is there some type of protocal to follow? I would like to contribute if possible although my glazes are nothing like what you are pulling out of your kiln. I'm very inpressed. I was trained with cone 10 reduction and had about given up throwing becouse I thought it was not possibe to get the look you are getting. fill me in on how this data base works.  please Kabe

Love the warm colors on the mugs.  Which did you use? 

Are you familiar with GlazeMixer. Not sure if you would be recreating the wheel. Might use their database as a base. They have a big database of private and shares formulas. glazemixer.com

George, is there a place where we can just post recipes with notes, even if we haven't tested them or have a photo?

I never made it to the studio today because I thought I'd better check some of the recipes for safety, limits etc, and I got involved in back engineering some of them like 2D which have been mentioned here, and I saw that some were no where near the cone 6 limits for silica, and too high in other oxides for cone 6, so I redesigned a few of them like 2D, etc.I came up with my own Strontium Crystal which has a bit better expansion than the original, and has a bit of zinc ox, as had one version I have, One almost mentioned 8 % yellow iron for orange. I don't know if that was for reduction or ox; but I will test it.

That Pier black is a really unsafe glaze. A better choice would be Val Cushings' satin black. I've tested it at cone 10 and it's a beautiful glaze and I think it would work at cone 6 and be much safer than Piers Black which has chrome which is a known carcinogenic, as well as a large amount of cobalt. I'm not adverse to chrome when nothing else will do, but it's really not necessary in this case.

It would be great to have have a list of glazes with firing notes, etc. without discussion, so the list wouldn't get too cluttered. We could discuss them another forum on this site.

I also found a Persimmon  on lines and can post that as well, since someone mentioned looking for a persimmon glaze.

Looking at my S. Hill notes I see he has used a high magnesia glaze, so I came up with my own version of one using a sodaspar which should make it work at cone 6-8.

I'll be batching and testing these but it will take me a couple of weeks to get them all weighed out, sieved, on to tiles and fired; but I'll try to get a few done in the next few days just to test in my small electric kiln.

Till later,

June