How To Glaze / How I Learned To Glaze
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2020
- Finally a video about glazing. I hope to share some information and thought process about glazing that helps you no matter what stage of pottery you find yourself in.
I hope you enjoy the bloopers! I had a rough day talking but hopefully that turns into laughs for you!!
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And the outtakes are awesome!😃
Love that you kept in some of the flubs. When I do videos for students, I just run with mistakes. My philosophy is, that if I were doing it live in class, I can't edit, so might as well roll with it.
I don't get too deep into glazing, with students, other than the basics of what they are, and how they behave. I'm happy to go a bit deeper, but their eyes ususlly start to glaze over (I just smiled at my own unintentional pun)... If they want a quick explanation, I just say it's magic.
I don't understand a lot it myself. Those that do, like John Britt, I consider wizards!
Super helpful about your process, this is where I am now…figuring out what works for my process. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for the outcuts, you made me giggle out loud 😄. Also great video, much useful stuff, this is definitely the way to go.
You are tooooo funny 😄! Some of your videos are hilarious 😂… you make my day !!! I’m learning so much watching your presentations over and over again. Thanks for the time you spend teaching us! I’ll be visiting your studio soon. Your work is fantastic.
The only thing I would change is it would be great to show those pieces after they were fired.
Great suggestions!
This might be my favorite video you've done!!!! How much coffee have you had? Lol! Never change!!!!!!!
Would love to see more!
Haha liked the fallen camera. Thanks for sharing. Take-a-lota. Sometime your the bird and sometimes your windshield
Thanks again for another great video! You do a great job but we do love the out takes! It lets me know that we're all just humans...lol. Oh, and thanks for doing them more often. I know I really need them during this time. Your videos are always informative and entertaining. Also, I think I have that glaze you mentioned made already and it never once occurred to me to layer it with another glaze. (Head Slap!) I'm going to try it in my electric kiln and see if I can get anything amazing out of it.
26:31 You can adjust the heat expansion of your clay or glaze. If your glaze crazes, you simply increase the amount of silica in the glaze by adding 1% millisil or quartz powder until the crazing goes avay. There are a bunch of information of this topic on digitalfire website.
(I had to giggle at the beginning ...NG struggles are real in my studio too ;P LOL) Just starting my journey mixing glazes so this was spot on helpful! Thank you! :D
Thanks Matt, very interesting video.
I am somewhat limited myself really, in that, I fire earthenware only, so not so many options unfortunately.
Hope you are feeling better! I know you had a dreadful headache recently! Stay safe.
Wait! I want to see your test tile pots with the small plate catcher on the bottom that tested 4 color combos together!!!
Thank you. It makes maybe mixing glazes not so scary.
love to have the red glaze recipe
matt, Thanks for the glaze video . you can hold the rubber handles on your tongs with (electrical wire heat shrink tubing) sold at harbor fright or tractor supply.by the way, how do u put mug handles on while the mugs still on the batt waiting for the bottom to dry and pop off ?it must be awkward with the batt in the way, No?
Great video Matthew. Couple of questions for you..
1. Where did you get those large glaze buckets with the nice handles?
2. Do those buckets have lids?
3. I noticed you’re using a plastic table. I’m assuming it’s to keep things from drying out. So... what’s on the plastic table that’s covered with the sheet of plastic?
Lithium increases the viscosity of water, so it makes sense that that glaze is runny
Hope every video doesn't have so many retakes for you. Sometimes it's just the day. On to a new day. Nice to see we're all human.
Could you please talk about using ash glazes?
When I was a teenager, my parents had a friend who did pottery and liked to use apple ash. We had an old house with 5 fireplaces, so we burned only apple wood in one of them.
I now have apple wood and a wood stove. I work mostly at a community studio (closed right now! ;-( ) where we fire to cone 5-6. A few times a year I also work with a potter who does salt firings. She also has a cone 10 propane kiln I could probably arrange to use. Soo...
How to mix ash/ apply/ what temperature (s) for firing. Etc?
Thanks - Kathy
You sure are talking about an `extensive subject` here Matt! All you can do really is to just give people some pointers! right?
At the end of the day, I believe that people have to "train themselves" to TEST and ALWAYS, ALWAYS take notes, that's so important isn't it?
I notice you showing my very fav vase again ;) that red skinny necked bottle is awesome Matt.
Stay safe please, you and your family.
Cliff
Glad you left the gimbal bit in..hahaaa
Hey Matt! I always enjoy your videos but this one really inspired me. I've been testing glazing combos using commercial glazes and been getting some fun results as well as some duds! Your strategy for the test cups is genius! I went and threw a bunch of cups last night. Would you share that spreedsheet you used to get all the combos? Many thanks!
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I was dumb lost my account password. I would love any tricks you can give me!
@Ronald Rudy Instablaster ;)
@King Camdyn I really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and Im trying it out atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
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Just had to pay 15$ but definitely worth the price :)
Thank you so much, you really help me out !
@Ronald Rudy glad I could help =)
I have had absolutely NO success with glazes from books. I did chemistry at high school, which made it fairly easy for me to learn to calculate glaze recipes from unity formula. I mostly use that knowledge to modify popular glaze recipes that people have told me about. I work in stoneware, which uses cheap materials mostly - not so much fritts. But a muted palette of colours.
Thanks again, Matt ... I was just wondering, usually a cobber red would be running a lot but it looks like yours dosen't (sharp edge at your small thin necked vase). How did you do that? :-)
Thank you for all the info. I mix my own glazes but only glaze about every six months so what happens with the glazes with a lot of feldspar it goes to
the bottom of the tub and hardens. I've broken it up and tried to mix it with the rest of the glaze but it doesn't mix well.
Do I have to floculate or defloculate to get it all to mix well?
I saw a good John Britt video here on youtube on how to do that. It helped me immensely.
Thankyou. Enjoyed the out takes. I am struggling with pinholes. Finally settle on the glazes I want. Finally mastered our hand made propane kiln at 9,500 feet elevation. Waiting on my pugmill delivery. Feeling good then then dang pinholes. Trouble shooting is madness
That is one of those issues I’ve seen with the clay and glaze combo I mentioned. What cone are you firing to?
Matthew Kelly Pottery we are firing to 5-6. Used to do cone 10. But up at high altitude thought it better to go lower. Follow manufacturers recommendations ( Amoco and Marco). New sterile brushes. Washed and dried bisque. We do have less pinholes when soaking at cone 5 but still there. We wonder if we needed to go to higher temp bisque
Matthew Kelly Pottery currently using Zam Super body from Denver but plan to mix my own when mixer arrives. Really like the Zams.
What’s your bisque temp?
Sheila Carroll I have struggled with pinholing using spills of Laguna crystal over other Laguna glazes. Lately, I have been turning off the vent fan toward the end of the firing and immediately closing the open peephole once I reach cone 10. This seems to be helping. Knock on wood. I leave the kiln closed and peepholes closed until cool down to 150. I fire with a Bailey electric kiln. Bisque to 1728 degrees or cone 08. Hoping slower cooling will solve pinholing. As to climate, I am in Wisconsin.
Some glazes flake off when layered over others. What should I avoid that causes this?
I’m new to dipping and I keep getting marks from the tongs and I don’t know how to stop this? I bought the ready made glaze powder to mix with water and it is very thin. Thanks for the really interesting content and amusing blips 😃
Some glazes show tong marks more than others. You may need to use less water when mixing and you may need to dip an alternate way than using tongs.
Or just dip one finger into the glaze and rub over the marks.
You might do a test, though, of leaving the marks, as with any glaze that runs a bit the marks will probably disappear. ;-)
Would you share the mystery glaze recipe?
What cone do you fire to?
@@MatthewKellyPottery cone 6
Mine would t work for you buy check out Steven Hill’s Strontium Crystal Magic for cone 6. That should work similarly. Or look for Jen’s Juicy Fruit. Those were two glazes I used and had very interesting results with.
@@MatthewKellyPottery thank you!
Hello from Chile Matthew 14:05 what is the name of that red glaze?
It’s a copper red glaze fired in gas reduction to cone 11.
It’s layered with a glaze called strontium crystal magic
@@MatthewKellyPottery Cone 11 is a lot !! All my glazes are for cone 6 lol, anyway I got John britt book’s about mid range magic crystal is there! I will follow on Facebook!
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Need calculator!
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