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CMW Student Publication!
One of our students, Brenna Dee McBroom has an article in the Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated called: Developing a Microcrystalline Glaze Palette. Read it here!
Flux Substitutions
PODCAST!!
Our new podcast just launched and we are so tickled with the name and the podcast network. So join us over on the Brickyard Network and have a listen. The podcast is listener submitted questions that we answer with our dear friend and host Kathy King! So send us a...
FFS Episode 1 – Supplemental Information
​Bisque Temperature and Glaze Absorption This is a test showing how different bisque temperatures with water content can affect glaze application. Listen to our next podcast on the Brickyard Network.
Getting boron levels right
When we talk about converting a glaze from Cone 10 to cone 6, we need to have a precise understanding of our chemistry. First we need to understand what materials we are using to get the temperature down. The majority of the time, the best option is Boron. We find...
Glaze Durability (Food Safety)
I've had a few conversions recently about glaze durability. Here is my article that I published in the 2016 NCECA journal on that subject. I looked into the the question of why glazes are durable or not and found that we are able to correlate the overall durability of...
