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Keeping your valuable notes, recipes, test results, pictures and notes in a three ring binder? Or are your pictures scattered across your phone with no keywords or context? If you're testing, adjusting, or developing glazes, bodies, underglazes, engobes, etc. for ceramics, traditional notebooks and binders could be holding you back. With Insight, you can link recipes to each other and to important details like photos, materials and firing schedules. Organize test recipes into projects, classify them, calculate chemistry, and create mix tickets. Research materials and perform keyword searches. Physical notebooks can’t do this—but your account at Insight-live.com can!
The secret to cool and functional bodies and glazes is a lot of testing.
The secret to know what to test is material and chemistry knowledge.
The secret to learning from testing is documentation.
The place to document is an account at insight-live.com.
Articles |
Formulating a Porcelain
The principles behind formulating a porcelain are quite simple. You just need to know the purpose of each material, a starting recipe and a testing regimen. |
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Media |
Remove Gerstley Borate and Improve a Popular Cone 6 Clear Glaze
How I found a ceramic glaze recipe on Facebook, substituted a frit for the Gerstley Borate, added the extra SiO2 it needed and got a fabulous more durable cone 6 clear. |
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How I Formulated a Cone 6 Silky Matte Glaze Using Insight-Live
I will show you how found a recipe on Facebook, assessed it, substituted my own materials, tested it, adjusted it. Now it is like a cone 10 dolomite matte. |
Glossary |
Digitalfire Insight-Live
A cloud-hosted ceramics-targetted LIMS (lab info management system) enabling collection, organization and learning from data to develop, adjust and study their recipes, materials and processes. |
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