frankbonatelli Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 Awesome, Thanks for your input. I've read here that one should do a bisck firing first before a glaze job on newly washed shelves. fact or fiction do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick White Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 As with politics, one person's fiction is another person's fact, usually based on their personal experiences together with stories (both factual and fictional) they have been told. My early experience with kiln wash was all over the place with the only commonality being bad. Then I learned of an easy and, for me since then, foolproof wash recipe - 1/2 alumina hydrate, 1/4 kaolin, 1/4 calcined kaolin, with an optional 1% addition of feldspar. The calcined kaolin solved the shrinking/peeling problem and the touch of feldspar solved the flaking. As I previously noted, the new wash should be completely dry before firing, and I have found that leaning the freshly washed shelves against the wall or something else to expose the back of the shelf to the air (rather than leaving them sitting flat on a table or the ground) helps them dry faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankbonatelli Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 Funny ole world, this recipe you list here is the very same i have started with. Read lots of positive about it so figured that would be a good starting point. Thanks for sharing your knoledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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