Egyptian Paste, Wood Ash and Skipping a Zero
Well, I'd been planning to do a firing to test some things out again since April, but it's taken until this weekend to be able to do it. And it was a great firing, with just enough going almost right as well as totally wrong... I fired up a bunch of pieces, including another try at Terra Sigillata , and new experiments with Egyptian paste (using the homemade copper carbonate), and Wood Ash glaze. I sifted the wood ashes through a simple kitchen splatter screen (not sure what mesh it is, although the chunky bits sure got left behind), and didn't bother washing them as some suggest. I then mixed up three different batches... Recipe 1 Wood Ash 38 Feldspar 36 Clay 18 Silica 8 Recipe 2 Wood Ash 50 Feldspar 50 Recipe 3 was Recipe 1 with 2.5% of copper carbonate added, just to see what would happen. ...and applied them to three little glaze testers, as well as to a bisqued plate (Recipe 1), a pot