Triaxial blend
A triaxial Blend is essentially 3 different line blends. You can discover many different colors or variations on glazes using this bend. To create this blend you either have three …
Triple Beam Balance Scale
The Ohaus Triple Beam Balance Scale is a great super accurate scale. This is a manual scale which means that it is a little bit tricky when learning how to …
Slip trailing
What is slip trailing? It is the process of creating colored lines by squeezing lines of thick liquid clay or slurry onto a wet or leather-hard piece using a slip …
Reeves Casting Slip – Porcelain
Temperatures: Cone 7-10 Uses: Handbuilding, wheel throwing Atmospheres: Oxidation and Reduction Materials Amounts Kona F-4 34% Grolleg 40% Silica 26% Additions Water 35% Darvan 7 .35% Translucent & prone to …
Highfire Cone 10 slip
Materials Amounts Ball Clay (Kentucky OM4 Tennessee #1) 25% Silica 25% Custer Feldspar 25% EPK 25% This slip is meant to be applied to leather hard clay. You can add …
All Purpose Slip
Cone 04-10 Materials AmOunt Ferro Frit 3124 20.450 OM4 28.410 EPK 28.410 Silica 22.730
Robin Hoppers Ubiquitous Slip
Cone 04 – Cone 12 Slip Ball Clay 75.000 Kaolin 10.000 Silica 10.000 Feldspar 5.000 Robin Hopper cites this decorating slip: He says it is useable from C04 to C12, …
What is Vitrification
Vitrification occurs during the firing when the clay is physically changed. When the clay is changed it melts the glass formers in clay which allows it to become impervious to …
How to test for shrinkage and absorption rates
Clay shrinks when it dries, gets bisque fired, and again during the glaze firing. Whenever you make a new batch of clay or buy premixed commercial clay you should test …
