Opaque vs Low TiO2 Glaze
Aug 8, 2016 13:02:38 GMT -6
Post by mikep on Aug 8, 2016 13:02:38 GMT -6
Hi I am relatively new to Crystalline Glaze but so far having great fun trying different options.
My base glazes so far have been chosen from William Schran article in "Cone 5-6 Glazes, Ceramics Arts Handbook Series" and from this I have tried MFE (Dan Turnidge Revised), FA's Base (Revised) and FA's #5 (Revised). For the moment I would like to stick with Cone 6 as a maturing temperature to fit with limitations of my kiln.
I have recently purchased and read Fara Shimbo's book "Crystalline Glazes" and am really impressed with the systematic way she has broken down and illustrated the effects from different combinations of oxides and additions, brilliant! What I am not clear about though is that she make distinction between Opaque and Low Ti glaze and I am not clear exactly what constitutes each of the two catagories, probably obvious to you experts out there. Can I assume that MFE and FA base represent Opaque and FA#5 would be regarded as low Ti? If not what would be good representative base formulations.
Many thanks
My base glazes so far have been chosen from William Schran article in "Cone 5-6 Glazes, Ceramics Arts Handbook Series" and from this I have tried MFE (Dan Turnidge Revised), FA's Base (Revised) and FA's #5 (Revised). For the moment I would like to stick with Cone 6 as a maturing temperature to fit with limitations of my kiln.
I have recently purchased and read Fara Shimbo's book "Crystalline Glazes" and am really impressed with the systematic way she has broken down and illustrated the effects from different combinations of oxides and additions, brilliant! What I am not clear about though is that she make distinction between Opaque and Low Ti glaze and I am not clear exactly what constitutes each of the two catagories, probably obvious to you experts out there. Can I assume that MFE and FA base represent Opaque and FA#5 would be regarded as low Ti? If not what would be good representative base formulations.
Many thanks
