White Crackle Raku –Chris Busse

Gerstley 64

Custer feld 12

flint 12

Kentucky ball clay 6

zinc ox 6

White Crackle raku –Angela B Davis

 80 gerstly borate

 20 plastic vitrox clay

  This is actually a clear glaze but looks white of course on white clay.

 Dip or apply 2 brush coats.

Fire up to 1800 and hold in open air for half a minute or so for best crackle.

Boraq2 Gerstley substitue –Donna Kat

Boraq2 – Gerstley substitute

• Turkish Ulexite 45
• Cadycal 37
• Hectalite 8
• Feldspar (F4) 10
• Dolomite 8
• Whiting 8

Temmoku gold ^6 ox–Diane Bessette

 

temmoku gold

 cone 6 oxidation

Cornwall Stone        61.0

Whiting                     8.0

Dolomite                    7.0

Lithium Carbonate       5.5

Gerstley Borate            3.0

Silica                           5.5

Add:

 RIO                             10.0

Colemanite Glossy Green (or blue) ^6 –Sharon Moormann Mande

‎ Colemanite Glossy Green (or blue) ^6

Frit 3134 – 760

 Custer Feldspar – 1047

Whiting – 168

Gerstley Borate – 152

Ball Clay – 109

Flint – 760

 Add

Copper Carb – 90 for green

Add Cobalt Oxide – 15 for blue

We used it at the Saskatoon Potter’s Guild – from what I remember the biggest issue was speckling of the cobalt.  I’m going to mix a test batch of each and try them again also.

Steve Loucks Gloss Green ^6 ox or red –Roxanne Hunnicutt

SL GLOSS GREEN

Nepheline Syenite  – 40

Gerstley Borate – 5

Whiting – 5

Wollastonite – 5

Zinc  – 3

Frit 3134  –  3

EPK  – 12

Silica  –  27

Copper Carbonate  –  5

Glossy transparent, rich dark green by ???? Can be a nice red in reduction on top of Goss White. Old Opal looks nice sprayed on top in oxidation. Sometimes the glazes dipped on top will crawl.

Steve Loucks Black Temmoku ^6 ox or red –Roxanne Hunnicutt

SL BLACK TEMMOKU

Nepheline Syenite   – 40

Gerstley Borate  – 15

Whiting  – 10

Ball Clay  – 10

Silica  – 25

Iron Oxide 10

Barnard Clay  – 4

Cobalt Carbonate  – 1.5
Black Stain  – 2

Very stable glaze that does not run. Very good line glaze. Looks great over or under Old Opal Glaze. Gets slightly metallic in Reduction from the black stain. Regular  “Temmoku” without the cobalt and Black Stain added.

Steve Loucks Glossy White ^6 ox or red –Roxanne Hunnicutt

SL GLOSS WHITE

Nepheline Syenite – 50

Whiting  – 15

Gerstley Borate  – 10

Frit 3134  – 5

EPK  – 8

Silica  –  12

Zircopax  – 10

Glossy opaque white glaze. It is a stable glaze and works well for a liner glaze. good for other glazes to  be sprayed on top. Stable white in oxidation or reduction.

Steve Loucks Opal ^6 –Roxanne Hunnicutt

OPAL

Nepheline Syenite – 38

Whiting – 7

Gerstley Borate – 10

Talc – 5

Zinc – 5

Wollastonite – 2

EPK – 8

Silica – 25

Rutile – 8

Glossy, soft off-white, translucent glaze. This is a runny glaze if put on thickly. It is a very nice glaze over a white firing clay. It can reveal relief very nicely. It is very nice on top of or underneath Black Temmoku. Nice on top of most glazes. Goes grayish in reduction

Ed’s White ^5 – 6 — Donna Kat

Ed’s White

• EPK 43
• F4 Feldspar 15.7
• Whiting 12.1
• Gerstley Borate 12
• Flint 8.6
• Strontium Carbonate 8.6

 

This glaze and I hated each other but some really like it.