Tin Can Raku Glaze

[rakukuku]

We had a great Raku glaze called Tin Can and now seem to have lost the recipe. It was a glossy metallic and very reliable. Anybody have this one? We mixed up another tin can but it looks like a copper sand.   Boo Hoo, we miss our tin can!    rakuku

[PeterH]

A google for raku glaze "tin-can" brings up several recipes

 

In http://general.utpb.edu/fac/stanley_c/formulae/glaze/raku-texture.htm

Tin Can Matt Rainbow

Gerstly Borate 4 Neph. Sy 3 Copper Carb 1 Black Nickle ¼

 

 

In http://members.chello.nl/~c.sleddens/index_bestanden/dewitt-raku-glazuren.htm

Glaze name: Tin Can

Firing: Raku
Color: metallic patina
Date: 05/13/98

Recipe: (Percent, Batch)

Gerstley borate            48.48        4.00

Nepheline syenite          36.36        3.00

Copper carbonate           12.12        1.00

Black nickel oxide          3.03        0.25

                        --------    --------

Totals:                   100.00        8.25

Comments:

Recipe in parts by volume.

From Piepenburg's book "Raku Pottery".  Should be the consistency of very thin milk.