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Playing with bismuth in cone 6 part 2 (my apology to bismuth)
Glaze calculator confusion
When calculating the glaze recipe down to the UMF it's important understand that every calculator is technically different. Some of them don't update their chemical analyzes, some of them count in iron as an alkali earth while others just counted as “other”. This changes the entirety of the UMF for glaze calculators. If you've only been using one calculator for your entire life and it's never been updated…. It might be Time to change.
Playing with bismuth in cone 6 glazes prt.1 (What are you!)
Testing Bismuth at cone 6 oxidation to find out it’s roll.
New glaze (Greymon V.2)
Earth Nation ceramics has developed a new ceramic glaze; Greymon V.2. Let’s talk about why Greymon v.1 sucked so bad.
A good clear glaze for cone 5/6 oxidation. (Recipe + test examples included)
What causes crawling in pottery?
What caused crawling in pottery? It’s simpler then you think.
Tuning viscosity in glaze (thanks, I hate it)
A ceramic art blog talking about the importance of tuning viscosity in your glazes with sodium solution or darvan.
We discover something very important in this blog.
Lets talk about clay bodies and absorption + Hypothesis
This blog features a new glaze called metal gurumon and touches on the hypothesis that thicker clay bodies have greater capillary suction thus absorbing a greater amount of glaze mineral onto the surface of bisque.
Why specific gravity is so important to your glaze. Example.
In this blog I show yet another example of why specific gravity and application are so vital to the success of you glaze outcome.
How to do Mocha Diffusion on pottery + tests
In this blog we will go through the necessary steps of how to do mocha diffusion on your artwork. There's a lot of misinformation about this in the ceramic art world and this blog should help clear up a large majority of it.
This blog will supply you with a couple of things. Firstly it will tell you what mocha diffusion is and where the term comes from, secondly it will give you a recipe to try out for yourself although you can change it very easily, and thirdly it will supply a relatively long video full of experiments that will supply you with evidence of what I am saying within the blog.
Glaze development this month (Tenmoku Gold cone 6 ox)
Earth Nation Ceramics is redeveloping the classic tenmoku gold glaze with a new recipe. See his experiments and journey as he goes through multiple iterations of the glaze just to find the perfect non craze tenmoku gold glaze.
Why Water should be treated as an ingredient in glaze composition.
Testing Iron purity in Red Iron Oxide. How to do Loss on ignition test.
This blog will teach ceramic artists and glaze makers about loss on ignition and how to test their Red iron oxide purity by using the loss on ignition test with their kilns.
How to make an Iron saturated Red at cone 6 oxidation.
This bog goes in depth on how to mae a deep iron saturated kaki red glaze in one 6 oxidation.
New glaze in development (Garurumon Line)
A (very) basic understanding of glaze and glaze running.
A Very basic understanding of what ceramic glaze is and how to prevent running.
Just before dawn. A.C
How Matt is Real matt
Strong arming zinc (It didn't work)
Efficaincy of glaze. Perfect example.
This post explorers the difference in efficiency in glazes with respects to silica, alumina, and flux ratios and amounts.