Commercial glazes on decorative surfaces, your own on food surfaces

Wednesday 11th March 2015

These cone 6 insight-live.com/glossary/71">porcelain mugs are hybrid. Three coats of a commercial glaze painted on outside (Amaco PC-30) and my own liner glaze, G2926B, poured in and out on the inside. When commercial glazes (made by one company) fit a stoneware or porcelain (made by another company) it is by accident, neither company designed for the other! For inside food surfaces make or mix a liner glaze already proven to fit your clay body, one that sanity-checks well (as a dipping glaze or a brushing glaze). In your own recipes you can use quality materials that you know deliver no toxic compounds to the glass and that are proportioned to deliver a balanced chemistry.

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G2926B - Cone 6 Whiteware/Porcelain transparent glaze, Glaze Recipes: Formulate and Make Your Own Instead, Are Your Glazes Food Safe or are They Leachable?, Is Your Fired Ware Safe?, G2934 - Matte Glaze Base for Cone 6, Where do I start in understanding glazes?, Commercial supposedly safe glazes leaching. A liner glaze is needed., Two black cone 6 glazes recipes. One leaches metals. Why?, It is possible to spot a leaching glaze just by looking at it!, Metal leaching from ceramic glazes: Lab report example, Imagine realizing that pottery you're selling is all going to craze!, Making your own glazes, Dipping Glaze, Pour Glazing, Food Safe, Leaching, Base Glaze, Commercial hobby brushing glazes

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