Considering it's at least a thousand dollars for a medium sized professional kiln, it's actually really quite impressive you've managed to make your raku style glazes and get them to work from a homemade gas kiln.
Those thousand dollar kilns are a rip off too. At least they are when you want a part for one. I just tried to buy some gas parts from GreatKilns/Olympic for a burner. They wanted $60 each for the small gas connector that I found for $20 and pretty sure if I keep looking I'll find them cheaper. They told me they cost so much because they were special made by a local machine shop (lie). LOL I found them 200 miles from them for $39. Even more surprising is I found them in a well known burner; I can buy that whole burner kit for $51.
Absolutely wonderful YT channel. High production values so it’s watchable but more importantly the communication of the techniques is great and the notes with videos are fantastic. I hope you consider producing a simply produced ‘beginner firing and glaze recipes’ style of book. So much of what is available teaches perfection of technique whereas you really do teach the art. Cannot thank you enough.
The opalescent and copper colors are truly stunning. I have an old ceramic kiln and it would be fun to try to make a raku kiln out of that and the weed torch. Thanks for your straight forward instructions without any extra useless babble.
Thanks! I'm still trying to find a glaze/surface finish that I think works with the unprocessed clay texture. Glad to hear you're liking some of the pieces!
I love your presentation. Thank you so much. I'm new at making my own glazes and don't understand what actual quantity ( a part ) represents. You have 80% + 20% +100% ben then you a "part" what is the quantity of a part? Thank you in advance. Matthew
A "part" is whatever measurement you use. Grams, kilograms, ounces, pounds, etc. Typically, a base recipe adds up to 100%, and then there are additions of colorants on top of that. This simplifies the math.
Thank you Q; Is there any way to figure out how to force just iridescent blue/green/copper? Note I'd like do this with handmade clay beads. If you have links/videos to learn this for beads & making the colors I'm looking for, this would be most appreciative. Thank you again - very nice
Por favor pone el subtitulado en español por favor así puedo aprender y poder hacerlo me encanta lo que haces los colores del esmalte glaze como decís vos
Amazing videos! Definitely the best information I could find on this topic 👌 Question: can you actually use raku as dinnerware? Is the glaze food safe? Thanks a lot :)
I did a Raku firing with this glaze yesterday. The out side of the bowl turned out very nice, the inside stayed rather glassy green with some copper flash where the flames came over I think. It's nice but I'm wondering if the glassy green is a sign the firing temperature wasn't hot enough, any thoughts?
@@tinkerandthink I had it in a small trash can with sequoia needles in the bottom, it flamed up good and we let it burn a minute before putting the lid on......the guy doing the firing wasn't using a pyrometer, just watching the glaze.
Yeah, sounds like the bottom, which was touching the needles, got more heavily reduced. The inside got much lighter reduction, just from the smoke from the needles below. Copper will be green/blue with light reduction/oxidation.
Oooo these are fantastic, love it. I was wondering, can you put a layer of glaze over an existing layer of glaze? That would allow the texture of the crackle glaze, while still being able to be entirely food safe.
Amazing job, congrats , i have a question propably because of my poor english , you add Gerstley Borate 80, Custer Feldspar 20 and then + Gerstley Borate 1 (Part) + EPK (Kaolin) 1 (Part)... i cant understand that step how much is a Part, Thank you in advance for your time
Glaze recipes are all about proportions. If you add 80g Gerstley Borate and 20g Feldspar, then you add 1g extra GB and 1g EPK. But you can make as much as you want, with those percentages.
The math is easier. The main recipe adds up to 100. If it's 81 GB and 20 Custer, now it's no longer adding to 100%. It helps with scaling and makes glaze recipes written with a universal formula
@@tinkerandthink But in reality, at the end of the day, you are adding 81% gerstley borate in this recipe, right? Just checking to be sure. Meaning if I were measuring ingredients in a jar ready for glaze mixing, I'd measure 81% gersley borate - not 80%, and then 1% separately. I am familiar with color and such being added outside of the 100% formula, but I wasn't aware of the main ingredient, gerstley borate, being added on top of the 100%. Thanks for your response.
I didn't use a pyrometer or cone pack, so I don't know the exact temp. I just watched until the glaze looked melted, waited a couple minutes (held at that temp, basically), and then pulled pieces. I talk about firing pieces with raku glaze here: m.th-cam.com/video/XTh86PrXayM/w-d-xo.html
I understand the terms "colorants / clear base" but i so don't relate x.x i would cover my piece in pure cobalt or iron or copper carbon.. feldspar can make color with combined with the right material. The line is soo much more blurry than common potter speach would suggest
"Reducing" pottery literally refers to reducing the amount of oxygen it receives. Anytime you deprive it of air, whether through a secondary reduction like I do here when I cover it in pine needles (anything combustible works), or in a gas or wood kiln where you cut off the air supply but keep feeding the kiln fuel.
@@tinkerandthink hi... you put pine staw in the bottom which touch the outside of the bowl but you didn't put anything inside of the bowl but cover the whole bowl with a bucket so no oxygen will go in? Is the picture that I am imaging right?
@@lindalee945 it turns out that combustibles can block the surface of a piece from receiving oxygen from air entering the fire chamber. A wonderful side affect would be pine needle shapes appearing in various colors ( depending on the glaze). These nuances have crept me firing my various hand built raku and pit kilns yearly for 50 years. There is never a dull moment, and never a complete grasp of the results of the process. Always a journey! I have had great luck with newspapers, various sawdust sources including pet bedding and cheap metal bowls for reduction chambers.😊
One important thing! You never said the firing temperature of this glaze neither did you mentioned the type of kiln You used either for bisc or for ra-ku firing. And that's one of the most important factors in the process!
you remind me of ....me, when i was younger. I am now 72 and have done raku professionally for 40+ years. I still get a kick out of it. Dale Ferguson
It's always fun. Any chance you're the Dale Ferguson of Laguna Clay?
Considering it's at least a thousand dollars for a medium sized professional kiln, it's actually really quite impressive you've managed to make your raku style glazes and get them to work from a homemade gas kiln.
thanks! I was excited to learn it's possible, and surprised it turned out to be as easy as it is!
Those thousand dollar kilns are a rip off too. At least they are when you want a part for one. I just tried to buy some gas parts from GreatKilns/Olympic for a burner. They wanted $60 each for the small gas connector that I found for $20 and pretty sure if I keep looking I'll find them cheaper. They told me they cost so much because they were special made by a local machine shop (lie). LOL I found them 200 miles from them for $39. Even more surprising is I found them in a well known burner; I can buy that whole burner kit for $51.
I use microwave kiln to fire everything it works pretty good you should look into it
Stunning! But wish you had shown the whole process of firing and redux.
Beautiful colours copper andturquoise from outside inside amazing work.
Absolutely wonderful YT channel. High production values so it’s watchable but more importantly the communication of the techniques is great and the notes with videos are fantastic. I hope you consider producing a simply produced ‘beginner firing and glaze recipes’ style of book. So much of what is available teaches perfection of technique whereas you really do teach the art. Cannot thank you enough.
Hello from Chile, very nice work, i dont have that borate but i have gillespie borate, i will try it.
The opalescent and copper colors are truly stunning. I have an old ceramic kiln and it would be fun to try to make a raku kiln out of that and the weed torch. Thanks for your straight forward instructions without any extra useless babble.
Really great stuff. I love the interior of that bowl that looks like copper foil.
loving this ceramics series, please keep it going :)
Many more to come 😊
Learning about mudfossils would up your pottery game, knowledge & understanding of the true geology hidden in front of our eyes.
I love the unprocessed clay pieces. This is my first time finding your channel.
Thanks! I'm still trying to find a glaze/surface finish that I think works with the unprocessed clay texture. Glad to hear you're liking some of the pieces!
You have a great presentation style and useful interesting information. More videos please.
4:40 OMG! that copper glaze is just amazing! WOW it's beautiful! if you made the copper carbonate thicker, would it result is LESS crackle?
Absolutely beautiful!
Much thanks..very helpful
Beautiful Art your creating!
Maravilloso, hermoso , felicitaciones ❤️❤️
Amo el Raku ❤️
These are beautiful!
At 5:28... I don't understand the reduce and cover and not cover do you have a video?
Thank you very much!
Pretty cool, thanks.
I love your presentation. Thank you so much. I'm new at making my own glazes and don't understand what actual quantity ( a part ) represents. You have 80% + 20% +100% ben then you a "part" what is the quantity of a part? Thank you in advance. Matthew
A "part" is whatever measurement you use. Grams, kilograms, ounces, pounds, etc.
Typically, a base recipe adds up to 100%, and then there are additions of colorants on top of that. This simplifies the math.
creating beauty!
Thank you
Q; Is there any way to figure out how to force just iridescent blue/green/copper?
Note I'd like do this with handmade clay beads.
If you have links/videos to learn this for beads & making the colors I'm looking for, this would be most appreciative.
Thank you again - very nice
Oh hellz yea brüder
Great videos !
Por favor pone el subtitulado en español por favor así puedo aprender y poder hacerlo me encanta lo que haces los colores del esmalte glaze como decís vos
…and when will your online store open so we can purchase some of your pottery????
Hopefully this year!
Well you better get busy because I think you’ll have a line of customers. I’ll be the one in front.
Hermoso!!
Hello, I just asked myself if it would work to just grind glass bottles into powder and use that to make glaze?
What temperature did you have and how long did you hold the temp? Great video, thanks.
I just fired it by eye. When the glaze looks melty, it's ready.
Amazing videos! Definitely the best information I could find on this topic 👌
Question: can you actually use raku as dinnerware? Is the glaze food safe?
Thanks a lot :)
Depends on the glaze, but yes you can. Copper tends to leach, no matter how it is fired. But the base glaze is safe, I believe.
Do the colors change over time?
very nice! woof!
How do you apply your glaze and how many layers? Super excited to try this out in a couple days!
I talk about in some videos. It depends on the effect you want. Different pieces have different applications, even the ones in this vid
They look amazing!
Did anyone tell you that you could play the next Superman? :)) You look like a Superman, just saying .. haha! :D
I did a Raku firing with this glaze yesterday. The out side of the bowl turned out very nice, the inside stayed rather glassy green with some copper flash where the flames came over I think. It's nice but I'm wondering if the glassy green is a sign the firing temperature wasn't hot enough, any thoughts?
Sounds like it didn't get reduced strongly enough. How did you do the reduction?
@@tinkerandthink I had it in a small trash can with sequoia needles in the bottom, it flamed up good and we let it burn a minute before putting the lid on......the guy doing the firing wasn't using a pyrometer, just watching the glaze.
Yeah, sounds like the bottom, which was touching the needles, got more heavily reduced. The inside got much lighter reduction, just from the smoke from the needles below. Copper will be green/blue with light reduction/oxidation.
@@tinkerandthink ok, so what should I have done different to get more reduction on the inside?
Pile some more pine needles on top of the bowl after placing it in the can. The direct contact will make it reduce more heavily
How do you bisque fire the pieces before the glaze firing/reduction process?
I talk about that here: m.th-cam.com/video/XTh86PrXayM/w-d-xo.html
Oooo these are fantastic, love it.
I was wondering, can you put a layer of glaze over an existing layer of glaze? That would allow the texture of the crackle glaze, while still being able to be entirely food safe.
Definitely. I've been meaning to re-fire some pieces to see if I can get a smooth glaze on the inside surface to hold water.
Amazing job, congrats , i have a question propably because of my poor english , you add Gerstley Borate 80, Custer Feldspar 20 and then + Gerstley Borate 1 (Part)
+ EPK (Kaolin) 1 (Part)... i cant understand that step how much is a Part, Thank you in advance for your time
Glaze recipes are all about proportions. If you add 80g Gerstley Borate and 20g Feldspar, then you add 1g extra GB and 1g EPK. But you can make as much as you want, with those percentages.
@@tinkerandthink Thank you, now i get it
@@tinkerandthink Why not just say 81% Gerstley Borate? Why 80% + 1%?
The math is easier. The main recipe adds up to 100. If it's 81 GB and 20 Custer, now it's no longer adding to 100%. It helps with scaling and makes glaze recipes written with a universal formula
@@tinkerandthink But in reality, at the end of the day, you are adding 81% gerstley borate in this recipe, right? Just checking to be sure. Meaning if I were measuring ingredients in a jar ready for glaze mixing, I'd measure 81% gersley borate - not 80%, and then 1% separately.
I am familiar with color and such being added outside of the 100% formula, but I wasn't aware of the main ingredient, gerstley borate, being added on top of the 100%.
Thanks for your response.
What temp do you fire to? And do you hold or anything like that? Thanks!
I didn't use a pyrometer or cone pack, so I don't know the exact temp. I just watched until the glaze looked melted, waited a couple minutes (held at that temp, basically), and then pulled pieces. I talk about firing pieces with raku glaze here: m.th-cam.com/video/XTh86PrXayM/w-d-xo.html
I understand the terms "colorants / clear base" but i so don't relate x.x i would cover my piece in pure cobalt or iron or copper carbon.. feldspar can make color with combined with the right material. The line is soo much more blurry than common potter speach would suggest
Nice video tho! I like the "treat the glaze in different ways"
Is this food safe?
For various reasons, no, unfortunately.
By "reduced" you mean how much pine straw you covered the pottery in, right?
"Reducing" pottery literally refers to reducing the amount of oxygen it receives. Anytime you deprive it of air, whether through a secondary reduction like I do here when I cover it in pine needles (anything combustible works), or in a gas or wood kiln where you cut off the air supply but keep feeding the kiln fuel.
@@tinkerandthink hi... you put pine staw in the bottom which touch the outside of the bowl but you didn't put anything inside of the bowl but cover the whole bowl with a bucket so no oxygen will go in? Is the picture that I am imaging right?
@@lindalee945 it turns out that combustibles can block the surface of a piece from receiving oxygen from air entering the fire chamber. A wonderful side affect would be pine needle shapes appearing in various colors ( depending on the glaze). These nuances have crept me firing my various hand built raku and pit kilns yearly for 50 years. There is never a dull moment, and never a complete grasp of the results of the process. Always a journey! I have had great luck with newspapers, various sawdust sources including pet bedding and cheap metal bowls for reduction chambers.😊
One important thing! You never said the firing temperature of this glaze neither did you mentioned the type of kiln You used either for bisc or for ra-ku firing. And that's one of the most important factors in the process!
I've got videos on all that! I made my own kiln, and fired it until I could see the glaze melting (no cones or pyrometer).
When you say parts like 5 parts copper carb are you talking 5% in weight in grams
Yeah, just percent