A Glaze to Call My Own?

Here is an ash glaze that I made creating by combining Oak ash and a high iron clay.  On this particular clay it gives a nice yellow color. I enjoy the rivulets from the glaze and the pooling effect, a common feature in many glazes of this particular type.

The recipe is a high fire glaze.  I originally tested it at cone 10, and worked well so I mixed up a large batch and used it on these few pots.  The firing went well, but by accident, the pots were fired much higher than I was shooting for.  Apparently when I was trying to even out the temperature at the peak of firing, I overestimated the amount of time that it would take, and the kiln went well past cone 11. I ended up loosing 6 other pots to the kiln gods. They had over fluxed and the glaze, not this one, ended up fusing to my kiln shelf.  I had to get the ol' hammer out....%#$@(^&%$!!!!!

Surprisingly, this glaze held up, even in the higher temperature.  Here is another example with it on a small oval pot...


Oh well, at least I know now that this glaze has potential to take the heat!!!




Comments

  1. That's what I'm talking about Willis!!! Good job buddy.

    I'll email you next week about that pot.
    Have a great weekend!!!!
    Sam

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  2. Wow! That´s a really nice glaze! I love it, especially on the first pot.
    If you want to share the recipe I would be thrilled to try it out, when I have build my woodfired kiln in a near future =). If you don´t want to, I fully understand.

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  3. Very nice Rob. I am partial to yellow pots and these are some of the nicest I've seen.

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