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Post by jfox on Feb 1, 2016 14:46:29 GMT -6
Thanks Peter im interesting in getting something without frits .ive had some success , but like most everthing it needs more work Evan black is looking good
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Post by tileman2 on Feb 1, 2016 17:14:34 GMT -6
Evan- nice to see you applying this glaze on items other than pots: always glad to see the market broaden. Peter: we share a similar eye. I have grown the big 5-6" crystals which look cool in their own right. But like you, I prefer smaller crystals on a more open field. To me that highlights individual crystals. Like the shadowing effect on your plate, well formed crystals, good field to crystal ratio- well done sir. Tom
Jim: why do I get the feeling the race is on to develop a red crystal without reduction? Taxtile Doats- fritless glaze.. Serves Museum- France 1890's. Carbonate of Potash 138 Zinc oxide 162 Quartz Sand 360
Cone 9 Fritless - Peter IIsley Macro-Crystalline Glazes (Crowood Press 1999) Pg 65 Feldspar Potash 38% Calcined Zinc Ox 26% Flint (silica) 20% Whiting 14% Molochite 2% Titanium Dioxide 2% Finnfax 0.5% (glaze suspension)
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Post by evan cornish-keefe on Feb 2, 2016 10:10:23 GMT -6
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Post by tileman2 on Feb 2, 2016 18:06:46 GMT -6
Evan:
A friend of mine in London just sent me a pic he took a few weeks back. Those tiles were made by Kate Malone if I am not mistaken. Very cool stuff- have long felt this glaze has a much broader application and appeal. I have done a few back splashes, getting ready to do a shower stall this spring. Been playing for five years learning the skill set, but I just now sold my office building and warehouse. After 43 years, I should be fully retired by late summer. Then I can turn this sideline into a full fledged business.
Tom
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Post by Peter Sorensen on Feb 2, 2016 20:26:08 GMT -6
Hi Jim You are one of those with most knowledge of glazes so I cant teach you with anything. my aproach to fritless glazes is that where i live in Denmark there is just one dealer of ceramic and they just have frit for raku and that it so if i have to purchage frit ( 3110) the only way to order it from England so i have in that regard worked mostly with fritles recepie but it is a cheap glaze to make, but it have some limitation it is not a glaze that is good to store after it has being blended if stored to long it peel of the items as if the zink oxydes have not being calcinated. So i just make that amount i use in a session but one of the advanteges is that one have total control of the ingredience if it is a frit glaze one is bound to use the compound the frit is made of and in that amount there are in the frit Peter
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Post by paul on Feb 2, 2016 20:59:46 GMT -6
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Post by jfox on Feb 2, 2016 22:03:06 GMT -6
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Post by tileman2 on Feb 2, 2016 22:17:21 GMT -6
Origin of skinflint ; from thieves' slang: literally , one who would skin (that is, chip or abrade) a worn flint rather than pay for a new one noun: One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser. one who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser
tightwad : a person who does not like to spend or give money
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Post by jfox on Feb 3, 2016 9:44:10 GMT -6
In my youth i was a spendthrift from which i naturally evolved into a parsimonious old fart after putting three people through private colleges
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Post by Aymen on Nov 24, 2016 0:18:56 GMT -6
I know this is an older thread but I would like to join in and show some results, this is stoneware as I didn't use any porcelain or slip on the surface. I managed to get larger fan shaped crystals on a porcelain slip on top of the stoneware. after getting this result (3 years ago) I travelled and left everything behind me. I am back now and I will resume my experiments. I don't remember the oxides I used for coloring but I will check those and come back. Sorry I couldn't find out how to add a picture ? drive.google.com/file/d/0B9g0TVON-fuhZk9iSHpsU29jTkE/view?usp=sharing
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Post by annie on Nov 24, 2016 2:16:47 GMT -6
Just chiming in here from England...the low-fired crystalline tiles on the Saville Row building were made by Clive Robus of Robus Ceramics. He lives minutes from me outside Canterbury. They specialise in architectural and conservation ceramics. www.robusceramics.co.uk. Although they had not made crystalline before they did so for this client. Oh, and Koz, Your comments were spot on re putting in the dues, etc. re black/gold. I'm quietly working on black with silver in the background (last three years)...someday I'll have something to share but not YET! --Annie
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