Well some progress…and some disappointment…
Yesterday, I completed a cone 6 firing with mixed results. The clay from the big tub, which tested at 1.5% absorption but looked shiny, slumped badly. I had been afraid of that. I conducted a …
Category: Glazes
Glaze Testing and Glaze Results
It’s getting there…
The reason I decided to switch to cone 10 reduction vs cone 6 oxidation was to limit the amount of materials I have to buy (and ship) and to reduce the amount of physical labor …
Firing Cone 6 Glazes to Cone 10
The day before yesterday, I did a test run of my cone 6 glazes at cone 10. The firing went a bit cool at 9.5 but close enough. However, I could not find my underglaze …
Yet Another Blue…
You remember my last blue glaze that blistered at cone 6? Well I had a big batch of it mixed up and a couple of batches of older glazes that were low in the bucket …
June 2nd Firing
Many of these pieces turned out really nice. I still need to work on making myself wash off glaze and redo when it cracks while drying. I didn’t do this and now I have several …
White Glaze Pieces
These came out of the kiln Thursday morning. These were fired to cone 6 oxidation using my wild clay reclaim (1.7% fired porosity at cone 5.5) and my white glaze that is 17% local materials.
Sugar Creek Clay
This clay has special meaning for my dad’s side of the family. My dad lives on the old home place where he and his brothers and sisters grew up. Sugar Creek, where this clay is …
White Glaze Tests
I have had several requests for a white glaze. These are tests. I took Spearmint from “Mastering Cone 6” and reformulated it to use local materials (53% local). I have had great luck with Spearmint …