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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Kinda looks like part of a cream pie I's seen googling the dish but it could be a start if you are stuck where burning wood is not an option. That seems like pretty a wide firing range for one glaze. I have a Dunham Blue that starts at ^8 and still stays on the pot at ^14 but fluxing from ^6 seems like a bit much.
Thanks Gary - the other boron glaze I used to use was basically the same at cone 2 as it was at cone 10 - I fired it at both temperatures. This one I don't know too much about but I like it better so far
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