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Raw Materials for Glazes

Recently I’ve been preparing to mix my own glazes.  I started stockpiling chemicals and raw materials last summer when a Laguna distributor in Michigan had a sale.  Over Christmas I got a few books about glazes including Mastering Cone 6 Glazes and The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes.  I looked through the recipes in these books and some that I found on the internet and drew up a list of raw materials that I needed to start testing recipes.  Then I did some price checking for some online clay and chemical suppliers.  (The pottery supply search helped!) [Read more…]

Pottery Supplies and the End Of Summer

Pottery Supplies

Pottery Supplies

I love pottery supply yard sales!  I made a trip up to Michigan on Thursday to see my family and check out a yard sale at Crossroads Pottery.  They didn’t have the kiln shelf that I needed and I didn’t get all the posts that I wanted but I got a lot of new stuff to experiment with.  I picked up some Laguna clay and a few random dry powders.  I also got a decent scale ($3!) to replace the cheap plastic Walmart kitchen scale which was probably $5.

Bad news: this is officially my last day of summer break.  Good news: The kiln is firing as I’m typing this. [Read more…]

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