So here we go again. 4 new pots. All bisque fired. This time I’m trying sawdust instead of newspaper as my combustible. Let’s see what happens…<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fired the 4 copper ones for 22mins, dropped them in sawdust, covered in sawdust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hmmm. They are interesting, and shiney in a sort of metalic way, but way off copper. Over black they are really dark green, they look finished, and only boiling when over bare bisqware. Really dark. I think I’ll have a go over clear and white.. See what happens, but I’m suspecting I will just end up with lighter green as happened with the tiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what happened here? First fire, can’t remember conditions. I think maybe pre-raku black, 22mins, brown paper reduction; came out coppered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe I just need to get myself some Copper penny glaze..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full post to come <\/p>\n\n\n\n I waited for ages before I bought myself specialty glazes that I had been lusting after. Raku Copper Metalic and Transparent Crackle. I enjoyed how reliable and repeatable the Stroke & Coat glazes were, so am really disappointed how I can’t get these to work. Take a look at All-going-wrong to check out the firing notes for the tiles. So… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pottery","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220822_122542-scaled-e1661185485203-1024x768.jpg\")
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