Crystalline Glaze Phil Hamling 376 County Route 1 Warwick, NY, USA 10990 e-mail: pdah-at-optonline.net (change the -at- to @) |
Zinc Silicate Crystalline Glaze Pottery A chronicle of my recent progress and a way for me to keep it straight in my head! Click on thumbnails to enlarge photos |
Info I've been asked to keep in confidence.
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4-14-13 I have been spending much time preparing for my presentation, on "The Childers Effect", which I will give at the Cristalls 2013 - International Crystalline Glaze Convention, Girona, Spain next week, and have not had time to update my web site. I have many, many many pieces of information to put online and will do so once "the cat is out of the bag", so to speak.
3-10-13
You'd warp too if you saw 1700°C (3100°F) for 12 hours. | Let's try that again with a little support. | Phil got to St. Louis for the first time. |
3-10-13
I "adjusted" these 3 pieces by Jim Fox. | This piece is keeping with the winter theme. | Shipping Documents |
3-8-13 Yesterday we go 10" of a very wet snow. Some in the media were actually referring to it as snain (snow + rain?). I've never heard that one before. Anyway, it was very wet and sticky and clung to everything it touched.
You can see how it built up on this piece of pottery and on the tops of the stakes defining the edge of our driveway (for the snow plow). I got these photos just as it was slumping over before falling off. The next morning I took the shot of it melting off the stairs on the back deck.
2-28-13 A friend from college found me through the internet (34 years later) and sent photos of a pipe and tile I made and gave to him. I can't believe Harry has kept the stuff for that long.
2-27-13 | 2-25-13 | ||
Fortunately there were only 2 tri-axle loads of stinky stuff that all went away today. | |||
Another beauty by Joerg Baumoeller | High manganese content. | I've never seen this look before. | I came back to a record order backlog for our company. It was ~5X what it was during the Electric Reduction Symposium. |
Jose' Mariscal Workshop | 2-20-13 | ||
Dunedin, Florida 2/22/2012 - 2/24/12 |
I loaded these just before going to Dunedin | And barely unloaded these. |
2-19-13
2 1/2 years went by fast. |
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You'd smile too if you were getting $+/ton to remove & burn oil soaked ground. | |||
2-16-13
2-12-13
8 & 11% MnO2 |
2-10-13
2-8-13 | 2-9-13 | 2-10-13 | |
I'm really looking forward to meeting Jose. | We got a little snow last night |
2-5-13
Joerg Baumoeller |
1-30-13
1-28-13 After coming back I worked up this calculation to show Jim Fox how I'd go about figuring out how much glaze to put on some pieces in order to get 1/2 gram per square inch loading.
1-25-13 I took a trip to see Jamie Kozlowski up in the frozen north, for a couple of days, with plans to do all kinds of stuff. I ended up not doing much more than sitting on the couch (it felt great).
1-22-13
1-21-13
1, 4.5, 8, 11.5 & 15% Cu2O | |||
1-20-13 I've increased the water, to 70%, and decreased the Veegum Cer, to 1%, in these glazes in order to have a thinner mixture to help me control the application rates. Red copper oxide just does not want to stay in the mix under these conditions.
1-9-13 I found the reason I was getting "TC1 FAIL" and a funky curve was that I had pinched the extension wire from that TC in the case the last time I opened and closed it. Fortunately the kiln controls primarily off TC2 and the firing seems to have gone OK.
1-14-13 e23s firing while displaying "TC1 FAIL" |
1-8-13
1-6-13
1-5-13 We were sent some nice photos taken on Christmas eve.
Phil and Patti | Kat and her Papa | Crystal and Kat | Phil and Crystal |
1-4-13
1-1-13
F413 line blends of 8% CuCO3 and 4.6% Red CuOx with 0 through 4% MnO2 | |||
12-15-12 | 12-13-12 | ||
Doug & Sue took a 20 ft. tree. |
12-13-12 | 12-12-12 | ||
12-10-12
12-9-12
12-6-12
This one almost looks fake. | Ian Childers, The Pottery Gangsta' |
12-5-12
Platinum wire |
12-3-12, 12-4-12
This bag of 644 is like a brick. | |||
12-2-12
12-1-12
11-30-12
11-27-12
11-22-12 A series containing 4 1/2, 7 3/4 and 9% Red Copper Oxide.
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Sometimes things are just easier done by hand. | I think I will submit this piece in the competition in Spain. | Or maybe this one. | Georgene and Katerina Georgene |
11-17-12 Glaze thickness plays a significant role in the growth habit of rings in this glaze contain copper, cobalt and manganese.
11-8-12 I got some new info from my "virtual" friend Joerg Baumoeller, who is among the group of people I'm really looking forward to meeting in person in Spain this spring.
11-1-12 thru 11-6-12 None of this has anything to do with crystalline glazed ceramics except eating up my time and keeping me away from it.
10-30-12
4" Tile |
10-24-12
10-23-12 On the chart below, the red line is temperature and the black is reduction level.
Sneak preview taken at ~400F. | The transmitters really didn't like being outside last night and created a whacky chart. | Something in these re-fires wreaked all kinds of havoc making large bubbles. |
10-21-12
10-20-12
I really like Andy's forms. |
Red copper oxide, cobalt carbonate and manganese dioxide in the ratio of
3:1:1. 6 3/4% copper on the left, 4 1/2% on the right. |
I bought this at a yard sale for 5 bucks. |
10-19-12 Here's a pretty thought provoking video from Corning Glass
10-17-12 I did a series of red iron oxide additions in a molybdenum glaze ranging from 7 1/2% to 30%
10-12-12
10-11-12
9-30-12 Mother Nature brought us a mixed bag of inclement weather including a small hail storm which kept me off the lawn. It was nice to spend the afternoon in the studio glazing some things. I've never felt I'm good enough to be considered a potter, but maybe I am a foul weather potter.
9-27-12 My good friend Joerg Baumoeller sent some macros of moly crystals he has grown. These are snips of the best of the best. Everything was peaches and cream, even though the sheer number and size of the e-mails choked my Outlook, until he sent the last one. In it he simply said something like "....these were all grown on vertical surfaces." I know it is simply a statement of fact but for some reason the hair stood up on the back of neck as I thought maybe I should take that as a challenge!
9-23-12
Endeavour says goodbye to Kennedy Space Center |
9-23-12 am. It's like Christmas morning here except Santa is taunting me with presents but they are too hot to open. I took a sneak peek anyway and now I really can't wait to open them.
9-22-12 This is my first reduction test in the Fallonator. It's so easy to press the start button and then leave, but I virtually sat and watched the whole thing.
Thanks to a good supply of spare parts I was able to get the oil bomb / alcohol drip kiln up and running in short order. As happy as I was Bella really didn't give two woofs about it! |
9-21-12
I poured alchohol in the IV bag at 1600F and realized too late that the valve was wide open and had a mini explosion which carboned the thing up and blew an element. I saw the temperature drop as opposed to climb like it usually does. Set on HI, the kiln slowly dropped to 1550F over the course of 30 or so minutes.
Before 1550F reduction. |
After (I have never seen the setters turn so black before.) |
9-16-12 Today's photos |
9-16-12 Yesterday's photos
Higher glaze loadings seem to provide an excess of Mo and over nucleation. | The lighting outside was perfect yesterday. | Phil caught this King Salmon in the Salmon River in Pulaski, NY yesterday. |
9-12-12
9-9-12
9-3-12
Phil caught a school of fish, near the old ship wreck, including this 10 lb. walleye. | |||
8-27-12 Some of Priscilla's pieces and Kat going back to UVM as a sophomore.
8-23-12
8-19-12 Priscilla Palumbo, Steve Bernard and Sally Tomiko drove down from Connecticut for a day of slinging glaze and BS. I also worked in a booze drip post fire reduction cycle at 1500F which gave some curious results on a few moly crystal tiles. Although they are not what was in my mind's eye I find them interesting none the less, probably because their contrast has been turned up a notch and I've never seen anything like them before.
Here's looking at you! |
8-14-12 Things that have been keeping me out of the studio.
8-7-12 A new piece from Feri...............
.............that sort of reminds me of this one of tonight's views while driving down Amity Road. |
A recent favorite by Adam MacMillan. http://www.surfsideceramics.com/ |
Re: ....a more red red color after reduction.
8-5-12
L to R: 0, 2, 4, 6 & 8% Rutile. Top to Bottom: 0, 1 and 4hr holds at 1080C |
^10 moly glaze under short wave UV. |
8-4-12 A very light reduction? 15 minutes at 1400F with 2 quarts of isopropyl alcohol.
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