Tagged: Cone 6 Glaze

20 G-200 Feldspar
20 Ferro Frit 3134
15 Wollastonite
20 EPK
6 Talc
19 Silica

The sample picture is of an agateware with the clear over it.

This is the simple Cone 6 clear liner base recipe that I’ve been using in my studio since 2005.

Very stable from cone 5 to cone 7.

To create my creamy white liner, I add 4% Tin Oxide.

Glossy Clear Liner

47.3 Nepheine Syenite
27 Gerstley Borate

20.3 Silica 325
5.4 EPK
2 Red iron Oxide
1 Cobalt Oxide (altough I sometimesuse cobalt Carb)
4 rutile
2 bentonite
This is a very versatile glossy blue cone 6 glaze that I’ve been using in my studio since 2006. It’s very stable by itself and interacts well with my most of my other glazes, and more inportantly, it reacts beautifully with my standard white liner glaze creating wonderful optics breaking at the rim.
When applied thick, it produces an amazingly rich blue hares fur.
When applied thinly it produces a transparent iron blue.
This glaze begins to glass up at bisque temps, but can be taken to cone 7 quite well.

I’m most commonly using it to create my GhostBlue glaze for cones 5 to 7. The GhostBlue is a combination of my studio clear glaze with a thin application of Hares Fur over it to produce a transparent rich blue glaze that really works well with my cobalt slips.

Variation of Blue Hares Fur

Here’s my studio’s recipe book for the cone 6 glazes that I use.
I’m a very firm believer in sharing recipes. I also know it’s how we use what we are given that determines the out come.
All of the listed recipes are hot-linked out to detailed postings through-out the blog.

Clear Liner

Blue Hare’s Fur

Our Studio’s Cone 6 Glazes

Here is a real cone 6 gem…

25% Magnesium Carbonate
70% Nepheline Syenite
5% Kentucky Ball Clay (OM4)

This is the basic recipe of the crawl glaze that I’ve been playing with over the past few months. I found it buried in an old sketchbook scrawled in a corner of a page. It was from 8 or 9 years ago during a time when I didn’t have any sort of studio access and was sucking up as much information as I could get my hands on. The recipe is attributed to a October 2000 Ceramics Monthly article on page 49, unfortunately I failed to note who the author was. (Hopefully someone can help me rectify that.)

This glaze is very temperamental and you need to place it in the kiln asap after dipping. The glaze will crack and begin to pull away but not quite fall… unless it’s disturbed. It’s very sensitive to thickness.The glaze will behave very differently based on what’s under or over it.
Here’s a link to a February post showing some of my experiments… http://fetishghost.blogspot.com/2009/02/test-yumoni-for-crawling-glaze.html

Experiment and have fun and please share any successes or failures you have.

Cone 6 SDSU Texture & Crawl Glaze

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