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Can I mix a smooth stoneware with porcelain?


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If the colors are the same, if the maturing temperatures are the same; nothing. If there are differences it depends on the colors and the cone temperature you choose to fire. Test and find out. Stoneware and porcelain are very similar in composition.

 

I'm using Armadillo brand clay. I will mix Balcones White and cone 10 Porcelain.

Maybe this will be kind of like Laguna B-Mix, which is more expensive here.

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As long as the firing temperatures are the same, I don't think anything bad can happen. There's actually a very nice possible outcome (I can't remember who told me this but I swear I'm not making this up), the most agreeable throwing clays are not the "groggy" clays, they are the ones that contain a lot of variation in the sizes of its grog. So mixing a fine textured clay with a groggy stoneware creates such a claybody. I have tried something similar (mixing Phoenix with B-Mix), and it throws like a dream. Tall pots just shoot up into the air!

 

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