Crystalline Glaze Recipes Fara Shimbo

These are from Fara's Crystal Glazes books 1 and 2. Most are the frit 3110, zinc, silica base recipe (50:25:25) with small material additions at the expense of silica.

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Crystal Glazes book 2

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This is more technically oriented than the first edition, a book for those who are really serious about "learning the glaze", rather than just "doing it". It has fewer glaze recipes, highlighting and explaining the really good ones and their special qualities of crystal shape, amount of crazing or maturing temperature. This book has more about firing, both gas and electric. And more about clay bodies and better information about the glaze materials, coloring the background and crystals, seeding the crystals and the firing schedules.

Crystal Glazes book 1

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About understanding the process and materials. Mixing, applying and firing crystalline glazes is very different than with stoneware or porcelain. By far the best success is had by people willing to learn about materials and chemistry and experiment with recipes and firing schedules. A lot of things can go wrong and hundreds of firings are needed to develop a style and repertoire of glazes. There is even a "language of crystals" to learn, being able to describe things using the right terms is a big part of development and getting and giving help to the community.

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Recipes	VESUCG - Vesuvius Crystalline Glaze Cone 7-9 - Titanium-free with whiting, magnesium carbonate
Recipes	FAAO - Fa's All-Opaque Crystalline Glaze Cone 8-10 - Opaque surface (crystals and ground), high dolomite and titanium.
Recipes	BORY1 - Bory 1 Crystalline Glaze Cone 6-10 - Added Gerstley Borate lowers temperature to cone 6, titanium to seed crystals
Recipes	CELECG - Celestite Crystalline Glaze Cone 9-10 - Spodumene, talc variant
Recipes	GBCG - Generic Base Crystalline Glaze Cone 6-10 - Almost all other Frit 3110 recipes are based on additions to this
Recipes	GC106 - GC106 Base Crystalline Glaze Cone 8-10 - Most other GC106 recipes are based on this.
Recipes	GRNTCG - GRANITE Crystalline Glaze Cone 8-10 - High titanium variant
Recipes	TNF2CG - Tin Foil II Crystalline Glaze Cone 6-9 - Dolomite, tin, titanium variant
URLs	https://www.amazon.ca/Crystalline-Glazes-Understanding-Process-Materials/dp/1490396357 Crystalline Glazes: Understanding the Process and Materials
Glossary	Crystalline glazes A type of ceramic glaze made by potters. Giant multicolored crystals grown on a super gloss low alumina glaze by controlling multiple holds and soaks during cooling
Oxides	Sm2O3 -

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