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What if every single piece you have been making is all eventually going to craze? Do you refund all the customers? All because you trusted a liner glaze recipe found online. At a reputable site. This recipe is called "Classic White". And it has "classic crazing". On going back to the source web page you find there is no mention of even the possibility of crazing. Then you type the recipe into your account at Insight-live.com and are horrified to see how high the thermal expansion calculates to (see red circles on picture). Then you realize that, based on simple recipe limits, you could have steered clear of this just by looking at it. Then you find there are other well-documented base glossy and matte recipes that do not craze (like G2934 and G2926B). Even if they do they are adjustable to enable fixing the issue. And you can even blend them to create any degree of satin desired. And they use a mix of tin oxide and Zircopax to avoid crawling. And they are durable, don't cutlery mark, don't leach, don't run, don't settle in the bucket.
These cone 6 porcelain mugs are hybrid. Three coats of a commercial glaze painted on the outside (Amaco PC-30) and my own liner glaze, G2926B, poured in and out on the inside. When commercial glazes (made by one company) fit a stoneware or porcelain (made by another company) it is by accident, neither company designed for the other! For inside food surfaces make or mix a liner glaze already proven to fit your clay body, one that sanity-checks well (as a dipping glaze or a brushing glaze). In your own recipes you can use quality materials that you know deliver no toxic compounds to the glass and that are proportioned to deliver a balanced chemistry. Read and watch our liner glazing step-by-step and liner glazing video for details on how to make glazes meet at the rim like this.
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Trafficking
At Digitalfire we use the term "recipe trafficking" to describe the online trade in ceramic and pottery glaze recipes that can waste your time and cost you lots of money. Better to learn to understand glazes. |
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Glossary |
Liner Glaze
Liner-glazing is a way to assure that your ware has a durable and leach resistant surface. It also signals to customers that you care about this. |
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Glaze Chemistry
Case studies where glaze chemistry was used to solve a problem. |
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