I bisqued on Friday, glazed Saturday AM & fired the glaze load Saturday PM. I had the kiln turned up for a total of about 8 hours.I tested 3 glazes. Of the 3, this one works. It's called Schweiger's Liner and it comes from Louis Katz files. I used Laguna borate and PV Clay. On this piece it was applied thick but it worked out okay. The recipe calls it a cone 4-14 reduction glaze, but here I fired it to cone 6 (fast) in an electric kiln. The milky white is just from the calcium borate and the PV clay. That is the Campbell's GT stoneware body. I have been loading recipes into HyperGlaze as of late. Cone 6 in an electric kiln requires well-fluxed glazes, and the boron glaze works well to cover the variability of temperatures both in the kiln and from firing to firing.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Kiln room up and running
I bisqued on Friday, glazed Saturday AM & fired the glaze load Saturday PM. I had the kiln turned up for a total of about 8 hours.I tested 3 glazes. Of the 3, this one works. It's called Schweiger's Liner and it comes from Louis Katz files. I used Laguna borate and PV Clay. On this piece it was applied thick but it worked out okay. The recipe calls it a cone 4-14 reduction glaze, but here I fired it to cone 6 (fast) in an electric kiln. The milky white is just from the calcium borate and the PV clay. That is the Campbell's GT stoneware body. I have been loading recipes into HyperGlaze as of late. Cone 6 in an electric kiln requires well-fluxed glazes, and the boron glaze works well to cover the variability of temperatures both in the kiln and from firing to firing.
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