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Grey Sandpapery stuff.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Nate Willever Mar 26.
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Its very dry and gritty
No piggies here keith! haha! but that is interesting...i think i have seen this pig skin on a copper red glaze we have here.
I will post pictures of the grey....i dont use may glazes...just slips
Thanks though! i will pass that info on !
Does "pig skinning" sound like a good description of the issue? Last year someone posted about a glaze flaw that they had which was similar. I "caught" it shortly after that so I think there must be some contagious quality to it. On mine it was on...
Hey Will and thanks!
We have been putting 2 pounds of soda into 1 gallon of water, this works for my some people here at school (the people who use lots of applied glazes to their work) but I use mostly slips. Last firing a girls plates were tota...
Hi Nate,
My first instinct is that it is too much soda, possibly also in combination with particular clay bodies and/or flashing slips. Based on what you have mentioned about your firing it seems less likely to be related to carbon trapping or int...
Hmm I don't Think so, Because it is happening to several people, Mostly to the people who use a body with some added silica, I think its just to much soda for our little kiln.
Next time I fire ill mix in 1.75 pounds :/
do you think it might be the clay body ?
i've had this when i was testing clay bodies, some grit like material came out of the body.
one cool body that's over the counter is a sculpture raku mix, quite groggy but a wonderful flash too due to alu...
Ok guys, im trying to figure this one out. I get this grey sandpapery surface on some pieces, oddly enough in the middle of shelves where other pots have protected them from soda.
Im using a high alumina body that flashes beautifully, but there h...
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 12:05am on October 29, 2008,
Deborah Woods said… - Oh wait, I just saw that it says Portsmouth. That's really wierd. I grew up there. I lived in Portsmouth from about 4 years old until I was 19.
- At 12:03am on October 29, 2008,
Deborah Woods said…
- Hi Nate. I haven't checked this page in a very long time and so just got your comment. what part of NH?
- At 8:32am on September 13, 2008,
Gertrude Graham Smith said… - Thanks, Nate.
Warm regards!
- At 10:03am on September 10, 2008,
Pamela Theis said… - Welcome and thanks for joining!
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