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One of the best ways to make a piece of clay work your own is to literally put your mark on it. In The Salt Glaze Surface: A Guide to Salt Glazing and Firing,
you will learn to go further, bringing the form and surface of your
work together into a signature style using a variety of carving tools
in combination with carving techniques like sgraffito, etching,
wire-cutting, relief carving and more.
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Salt Firing, Science, and the Environment by Gil Stengel Many of us know that salt makes a glaze, and that sodium is a component of many of our glazes, but how this works exactly, and what the effects of the process are is difficult to measure without the right knowledge and equipment. Luckily, Gil Stengel and others have done the research and are willing to share their knowledge of salt firing with us. |
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Salt Fuming: A Low-Temperature Salt Firing by Paul Soldner There is more than one way to salt a fire. The most common way to salt glaze is at high temperatures (around cone 10), but Paul Soldner has been salt fuming at low temperatures for several decades. He walks us through the entire salt fuming process, from loading the kiln to introducing the salt to a post-firing treatment of our work. |
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Slip and Glaze Recipes for Salt Firing Will Ruggles and Douglass Rankin have been admired for their wood-fired, salt-glazed work for years, and their slip and glaze recipes are trusted by many professionals. |
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