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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 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.

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.

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Recipes VESUCG - Vesuvius Crystalline Glaze
Cone 7-9 - Titanium-free with whiting, magnesium carbonate
Recipes TNF2CG - Tin Foil II Crystalline Glaze
Cone 6-9 - Dolomite, tin, titanium variant
Recipes GRNTCG - GRANITE Crystalline Glaze
Cone 8-10 - High titanium variant
Recipes GC106 - GC106 Base Crystalline Glaze
Cone 8-10 - Most other GC106 recipes are based on this.
Recipes GBCG - Generic Base Crystalline Glaze
Cone 6-10 - Almost all other Frit 3110 recipes are based on additions to this
Recipes CELECG - Celestite Crystalline Glaze
Cone 9-10 - Spodumene, talc variant
Recipes BORY1 - Bory 1 Crystalline Glaze
Cone 6-10 - Added Gerstley Borate lowers temperature to cone 6, titanium to seed crystals
Recipes FAAO - Fa's All-Opaque Crystalline Glaze
Cone 8-10 - Opaque surface (crystals and ground), high dolomite and titanium.
Oxides Sm2O3 -
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
URLs https://www.amazon.ca/Crystalline-Glazes-Understanding-Process-Materials/dp/1490396357
Crystalline Glazes: Understanding the Process and Materials

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