HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Calling @leonwolf2392 to this thread, cause I know he’s on here now. I’d go back to the beginning.
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Limp “Biscuit” 
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
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Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Nice! I have some ingredients to make a glaze I've been wanting to make. I just need to make the time to make it....too many things going on.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I feel you, friend, I feel you!
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
Be careful what you ask for. I have so many containers of glaze elements that take up so much space. Any no part of ceramic arts is messier or potentially more dangerous.
I seldom mix my own glazes anymore but it is a worthwhile endeavor if you have the time and inclination.
While statistically it is cheaper by far to mix a batch of your own glaze, it is very expensive to get into glaze formulations. You need so many different products and many of the products that were once available no longer are either due to over-mining or toxicity concerns. It is a bunch of fun when a glaze batch comes out right. It is no fun at all disposing of a 5 gallon bucket of glaze that is wrong. I have at least a few buckets that need to be emptied.
For years I made a glaze called Weathered Bronze. Now there are a couple of commercial versions of the glaze that are already blended more consistently than I ever managed and they are so much easier on my remaining lung capacity. I could go on but you catch my drift........
I seldom mix my own glazes anymore but it is a worthwhile endeavor if you have the time and inclination.
While statistically it is cheaper by far to mix a batch of your own glaze, it is very expensive to get into glaze formulations. You need so many different products and many of the products that were once available no longer are either due to over-mining or toxicity concerns. It is a bunch of fun when a glaze batch comes out right. It is no fun at all disposing of a 5 gallon bucket of glaze that is wrong. I have at least a few buckets that need to be emptied.
For years I made a glaze called Weathered Bronze. Now there are a couple of commercial versions of the glaze that are already blended more consistently than I ever managed and they are so much easier on my remaining lung capacity. I could go on but you catch my drift........
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
I’ve always really enjoyed chemistry.. I, as a younger, different me, was a “cook” of QUITE the varied “menu”..
I like recycling aluminum cans, and double processing them into slightly crude Aluminum oxides.. We also save silica packets for Boric Acid extraction... I use old glass for frit, but STILL looking for a more effective pulverization method...
Na and Mg are recycled and filtered from “road salt”..
Copper, nickel, chrome and Iron are easily extracted from many household objects with the correct balance of acid/spirits/time..
Eventually.. I MAY tire of this.. but it is proving AMAZINGLY interesting at this point.
I like recycling aluminum cans, and double processing them into slightly crude Aluminum oxides.. We also save silica packets for Boric Acid extraction... I use old glass for frit, but STILL looking for a more effective pulverization method...
Na and Mg are recycled and filtered from “road salt”..
Copper, nickel, chrome and Iron are easily extracted from many household objects with the correct balance of acid/spirits/time..
Eventually.. I MAY tire of this.. but it is proving AMAZINGLY interesting at this point.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
(It helps alot to have a separate, ventilated space)
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Just be sure to wear a mask! A lot of this stuff can go in, but doesn't come back out.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Oh definitely!! I used to work decorative concrete! I try to inhibit the particles from entering my airways whenever possible.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Pulverizing frit, though.. is a process I’m REALLY considering abandoning... Labs/plants that can manufacture it, en masse, are far more suited to that operation.. and frit is real cheap.
That’s been the “sketchiest” i’ve felt, so far.
That’s been the “sketchiest” i’ve felt, so far.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Pretty sure this piece pf Raw leather.. is my new favorite clay-finishing tool....
...is that a “thing”?
...is that a “thing”?
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
Leather scraps are the best thing for smoothing and burnishing green clay.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Yes! I meant green clay... the bisque pieces getting glazed in the background is a tad missleading.
Groovy!
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
I knew that.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I find that this TikTok trend of sticking the glue and qtip up your nose to remove the hair is not only bad for making glazes ....but that Rona....
Just saying. Don't remove natural defenses.
Buy the 50lb quantities of all the materials you need and don't look back!
If you do the math, it's sickening how much commercial glazes cost.
Nosehair Nation!
Sorce
Just saying. Don't remove natural defenses.
Buy the 50lb quantities of all the materials you need and don't look back!
If you do the math, it's sickening how much commercial glazes cost.
Nosehair Nation!
Sorce
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like something I made at Catholic church camp when I was 10. I told my parents if they ever made me go again, I would run away from home.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
I did that years ago and I have to say I regret it.
I need my space back.
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
(I’ve been going “no-baffle”... with the slow burnout I am looking for, and my “low and slow” approach, it doesn’t SEEM to be necessary ((allows much control through quartz inversion)))