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I like using vinegar when I play with the clay. I do it when I connect scored areas, and sometimes I brush it on the clay to smooth the surface.

Vinegar is acidic, the clay is slightly alkaline, so it increases the plasticity of the clay when you brush the vinegar on it.

Just one question: would it increase warping of the clay?

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I like using vinegar when I play with the clay. I do it when I connect scored areas, and sometimes I brush it on the clay to smooth the surface.

Vinegar is acidic, the clay is slightly alkaline, so it increases the plasticity of the clay when you brush the vinegar on it.

Just one question: would it increase warping of the clay?

 

 

Been using vinegar in my slip for years, never noticed any warping. I haven't done any studies as to the negative effects of vinegar either, but don't think there are any.

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Clayppl;

I am thinking that you might have made an uneven application of vinegar. If you worked on one side only, or more on one side than the other, the clay slab would warp towards you.I tend to go easy with the vinegar, using it only to repair hairline cracks.

TJR.

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Clayppl;

I am thinking that you might have made an uneven application of vinegar. If you worked on one side only, or more on one side than the other, the clay slab would warp towards you.I tend to go easy with the vinegar, using it only to repair hairline cracks.

TJR.

 

 

I think you are right

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Clayppl;

I am thinking that you might have made an uneven application of vinegar. If you worked on one side only, or more on one side than the other, the clay slab would warp towards you.I tend to go easy with the vinegar, using it only to repair hairline cracks.

TJR.

 

 

I think you are right

 

 

Ain't ceramics wonderful?

TJR.

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I like using vinegar when I play with the clay. I do it when I connect scored areas, and sometimes I brush it on the clay to smooth the surface.

Vinegar is acidic, the clay is slightly alkaline, so it increases the plasticity of the clay when you brush the vinegar on it.

Just one question: would it increase warping of the clay?

 

 

I do have another point with vinegar and porcelain, esp very alkaline porcelain and very hard water. If you use too much vinegar, as I was, the vinegar and hard water combined to form chunks of calcium, which will blow out during the firing. Now its distilled water and no vinegar.

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