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I am looking for pink and purple cone 6 glazes.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

 

I cant help you with the pink but here's a ^6 Matte purple

Custer Spar 37.34

 

Colemanite (Gerstley Borate) 12.71

 

Dolomite 6.41

 

Talc 13.61

 

Kaolin (EPK) 4.5

 

Flint 22.72

 

zinc oxide 2.7

 

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total 100

 

Plus:

 

cobalt carbonate 2

 

(3.5% makes a very strong, darker purple)

 

 

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I am looking for pink and purple cone 6 glazes.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

I see that Andy got you a purple recipe, adding cobalt to a glaze with talc can produce a lavender to purple. 2- 4% Manganese dioxide in a glaze with custer spar and Gerstley Borate will produce a mauve to brownish mauve. The only idea I had on pink is testing some stains, the Matt B glaze in the 10 Tried and True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes looks like a good glaze to start with since stains are being used with it. Happy testing.

Denice (Wichita, KS)

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I am looking for pink and purple cone 6 glazes.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

I see that Andy got you a purple recipe, adding cobalt to a glaze with talc can produce a lavender to purple. 2- 4% Manganese dioxide in a glaze with custer spar and Gerstley Borate will produce a mauve to brownish mauve. The only idea I had on pink is testing some stains, the Matt B glaze in the 10 Tried and True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes looks like a good glaze to start with since stains are being used with it. Happy testing.

Denice (Wichita, KS)

 

 

 

Thanx

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I haven't tested this one but it looks reliable. Most cone 6 electric pinks and purples are chrome-tin reds.

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Glaze name: Lana Wilson's Chrome Red

Cone: 6

Color: Semi-Opaque Red

Testing: Untested

Surface: semi-matte or satin

Firing: oxidation

GlazeType:

 

Recipe: Percent

gerstley borate 21.00

nepheline syenite 16.00

kaolin 11.00

whiting 20.00

silica 32.00

Totals: 100 %

 

Also add:

tin oxide 5.00

chromium oxide 0.15

 

 

Possible Health Hazards:

Silica: free silica-wear a NIOSH approved dust mask when handling dry material

Chromium Oxide: all chromium compounds should be viewed as potentially carcinogenic

 

Estimated Thermal Expansion = 5.83x10-6 /deg. C

 

Unity Formula for Lana Wilson's Chrome Red:

0.023 K2O 0.225 Al2O3 2.300 SiO2

0.124 Na2O 0.247 B2O3 0.001 TiO2

0.797 CaO 0.002 Fe2O3 10.2:1 Si:Al Ratio

0.056 MgO 0.000 P2O5

 

Percentage Analysis for Lana Wilson's Chrome Red:

Percentage

Analysis

by weight:

58.67 % SiO2

9.74 % Al2O3

7.29 % B2O3

0.92 % K2O

3.26 % Na2O

18.98 % CaO

0.96 % MgO

0.14 % Fe2O3

0.03 % TiO2

 

I am looking for pink and purple cone 6 glazes.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

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Here's one of each:

 

 

Purple Icing Matte:

Cone 6, ox

(Nice girlie purple color, not great surface. I tried putting clear gloss over it, but it turned blue.)

 

Gerstley Borate 6.2

Lithium Carb 2

Magnesium Carb 6.1

Strontium Carb 12.6

Whiting 12.1

Neph Sy 21

Flint 40

100

 

 

Add:

Tin Oxide 3

Cobalt Carb 1

Rutile 3.6

Bentonite 2

 

 

 

Icing Pink Semi-Gloss:

Cone 6, ox

(Nice pastel pink, nice surface but shivered off one clay and not the other, so test it on your clay.)

 

Neph Sy 24

Whiting 12

Lithium Carb 11

Gerstley Borate 7

Barium 2

(or sub: 1.5% Strontium for 2% Barium)

Magnesium Carb 3

Silica 42

(adds up to 101)

 

Add:

Tin 3

Rutile 4

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I am looking for pink and purple cone 6 glazes.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

 

Take a look at this article:

 

http://www.brackers.com/special_pages/rare_earth_elements.cfm

 

It covers using lanthanides as colorants. It includes base glazes for cones 8-9 ox, cones 5-6 ox and cones 9-11 celadon type glazes as well as the suggested proportions for each oxide. This includes a nice pink using 8% erbium and a lavender 5.5% neodymium oxide with 1% 6 Tile Kaolin.

 

I played with these when Ceramics Monthly featured an article about them in the early 2000s and you can get some very interesting and unique effects.

 

Erbium oxide is roughly $15 per 1/4 lb and Neodymium is roughly $10 per 1/4

 

Most of than lanthanides can be found at Laguna distributors and I thought there was another company US Chemical or something like that (I haven't had a set up to mix my own glazes in about 5 years) that sold them, but I can't seem to remember the exact name of the company anymore, sorry.

 

 

 

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