Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Five Glazes and A Freeze

Gah! I finally get a couple hours to work on my glaze conversions, and  - boom! - five formulas in, the Glazemaster software just ceases to work. So aggravating! It just keeps giving me the Hourglass of Despair. I've sent an email to the folks who sold it to me; I think I may have to de-install and re-install, with a new installation code, which I have to get from them.

Anyway! Here's what I was able to do before the derp dropped:

Recipe Name: Magic White ^6 Test 3A

Cone: 6 Color: White
Firing: Salt/Soda Surface: Semiglossy

Amount Ingredient
19.5 Feldspar--Custer
6 Zinc Oxide
18 Whiting
9 Kaolin--EPK
19 Silica
15 Zircopax
4.5 Spodumene--Foote
9 Gerstley Borate--1999

100 Total

Comments: Careful not to get it too thick! Will crawl or even split ware.

Recipe Name: Magic White ^6 Test 4A

Cone: 6 Color: White
Firing: Salt/Soda Surface: Semiglossy

Amount Ingredient
18.3 Feldspar--Custer
5.6 Zinc Oxide
18.6 Whiting
8.4 Kaolin--EPK
19.4 Silica
13.9 Zircopax
4.2 Spodumene--Foote
11.6 Gerstley Borate--1999

100 Total
Recipe Name: Tenmoku ^6 Test 1

Cone: 6 Color:
Firing: Surface:

Amount Ingredient
53.3 Nepheline Syenite
19.5 Silica
15.2 Whiting
7.1 Ball Clay--Old Mine #4
4.8 Lithium Carbonate

99.9 Total

Additives
7.6 Iron Oxide--Red
2.1 Bentonite

Recipe Name: Tenmoku ^6 Test 2

Cone: 6 Color:
Firing: Surface:

Amount Ingredient
45.6 Nepheline Syenite
22.2 Silica
17.3 Whiting
8.1 Ball Clay--Old Mine #4
6.8 Frit--Ferro 3134

100 Total

Additives
8.7 Iron Oxide--Red
2.4 Bentonite

Recipe Name: Satin Black ^6 test

Cone: 6 Color:
Firing: Surface:

Amount Ingredient
59 Albany Slip
13.5 Feldspar--Custer
4.5 Strontium Carbonate
6 Talc
15 Whiting
2 Kaolin--EPK

100 Total

Additives
1 Chromium Oxide
3 Iron Oxide--Red
2 Manganese Dioxide
1 Cobalt Carbonate


Will be mixing these up today, as well as full buckets of the successful test from last time, for the next firing - hopefully this weekend.


2 comments:

Sorrow said...

Do you ever use the Slansky data base? I have found some wonderful recipes there to play with...

mejiaop said...

Can't wait to see the tenmoku results!