Dipping my toe in as a non terra-sig person, my usual answer to relatively coarse materials is to resort to the ball mill. Some of my glazes are milled to...
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VeenaRaghavan@...
May 27, 2012 5:48 pm
Hi, I know there have been a lot of posts about spraying and sprayers, but I do not think anyone addressed this particular one. I read about an electric paint...
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Deborah Thuman
debthuman@...
May 27, 2012 5:48 pm
Not knowing what I was doing, I added some mason stain to terra sig. I did get color, but not the intensity I desired. I just took some of the class white...
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Jeff Lawrence
jefflawr@...
May 27, 2012 5:48 pm
When I was making light fixtures with decorative perforations and designs, my best perforators were artist scalpels for linear holes (way less drag than exacto...
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Lee
cwiddershins@...
May 27, 2012 5:49 pm
In my teacher's workshop, we used a metal strut from an umbrella. -- Lee Love in Minneapolis http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/ "Ta tIr na n-óg ar chul an...
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pe canupp
pecanupp@...
May 27, 2012 5:49 pm
Hello Clayart world Thanks to all who wrote both on and off list about my seafoam green question. I am testing, testing, testing. Also testing similar...
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ronroy@...
May 27, 2012 11:06 pm
There are degrees of durability and they are directly related to how much silica and alumina there are in a glaze - that is all explained in our book John. We...
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ronroy@...
May 27, 2012 11:07 pm
Hi Brad, I think you may just have a stiff glaze there - some of the oxides we use have a high viscosity and/or a high surface tension - these can be replaced...
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Sumi von Dassow
sumi@...
May 27, 2012 11:07 pm
I think the point of lowering the specific gravity of the sig was so it wouldn't be too thick and potentially peel off the pot. I presume Jeremy Randall stirs...
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Eva Gallagher
galla@...
May 27, 2012 11:13 pm
Hi - years ago I tried a similar sprayer but the orifice was just too small and it clogged. I then used for many years a vaccumm cleaner attachment that I...
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Terrance Lazaroff
zalt57@...
May 27, 2012 11:13 pm
Hi All: I am taking a group to China to visit Beijing, Datong, Tiayuan, Pingyao, Chenlu, Fuping, Xian, Shanghai, Yixing and Jingdezhen at the end of September...
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Ben Morrison
potterpdx@...
May 27, 2012 11:15 pm
Well the particles of stain should be harder than the balls in the ball mill. However ball milling an encapsulated stains such as the yellow yttrium, or...
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James Freeman
jamesfreemanstudio@...
May 27, 2012 11:17 pm
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:20 PM, <VeenaRaghavan@...> wrote: I read about an electric paint sprayer made by Wagner. It is self contained and does not require...
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William & Susan Schra...
wschran@...
May 27, 2012 11:19 pm
... Veena, I've not tried one of the Wagner self contained spray guns for spraying glazes, but I did have one for spraying paint and couldn't stand the noise....
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Lee
cwiddershins@...
May 27, 2012 11:30 pm
... Terra sig works. A Mungyeong pot, nicely crawled on the foot (they go to great lengths to "achieve" this "fault": http://bit.ly/JnNteZ I traded this...
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John Britt
johnbrittpottery@...
May 27, 2012 11:30 pm
Ron, I am saying if the glaze exceed the zinc limits by a lot, shouldn't you reduce some zinc? But, then, if it does't melt well enough maybe you should add...
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John Britt
johnbrittpottery@...
May 27, 2012 11:30 pm
Douglas, I was just saying that since she is having problems.......reducing the high amount of zinc might help since it exceeds the limits Ron uses. Ron was ...
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C Sullivan
chaetoons@...
May 27, 2012 11:30 pm
I had read somewhere that if you take a piece of bamboo and shave the end off in a slanty angle, (so it will penetrate the clay smoothly) it will make nice...
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David Woof
woofpots@...
4:15 pm
Hi Brad, Everyone, Brad you are getting close to something significant when you opine that the clay surface has something to do with the forming of pin holes. ...
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John Britt
johnbrittpottery@...
4:17 pm
Ron, Guess I didn't realize your limits were so flexible. You list only 0.2 for ZnO. Why so low if you allow it to double? Why not have her just try Zinc...
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Paul Lewing
pjlewing@...
4:17 pm
Best hole punch I've ever found is a brass rifle cartridge. Get one that's necked down like a .30-06 or a .270 and cut the back end off. Of course, I'm...
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Linda Skipper
linda@...
4:18 pm
I'd like to put out a warning about the Wagner Paint Sprayer. It's inconsistent, sometimes spitting or spraying too heavily, messy and a pain to clean. I...
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Vince Pitelka
vpitelka@...
4:19 pm
Ben Morrison wrote: "Well the particles of stain should be harder than the balls in the ball mill. However ball milling an encapsulated stains such as the...
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Vince Pitelka
vpitelka@...
4:20 pm
Sumi von Dassow wrote: "I think the point of lowering the specific gravity of the sig was so it wouldn't be too thick and potentially peel off the pot. I...
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Vince Pitelka
vpitelka@...
4:21 pm
Veena Raghavan wrote: "I know there have been a lot of posts about spraying and sprayers, but I do not think anyone addressed this particular one. I read about...
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JRodgers
jrodgers113@...
4:22 pm
Go to Harbor Freight website and search for Chicago Electric Power Tools - item#44677 . I have one - it works great! JOhn...
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Nancy Gallagher
nrgallagher@...
4:22 pm
... I like this one - one tool for any size hole you want and the plug of clay doesn't get stuck in the tool. http://vangilderpottery.com/vgp_store.html#hole ...
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Terrance Lazaroff
zalt57@...
4:23 pm
It appears that I left out the blog link explaining the China tour that I am taking with Wendy Li. Here is the Link; http://2012sanbaochinatour.blogspot.ca/ ...
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Edouard Bastarache
edouardb@...
4:23 pm
A good checklist Cures for pinholing according to Robin Hopper: 1-lenghten the firing cycle, 2-apply the glaze less thickly, 3-add more flux to the glaze to...
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Steve Mills
original.mudslinger@...
4:24 pm
Interesting! My experience of stain and colour preparation is that the ingredients for the colour are melted together and then rapidly cooled either on a very...
