steve Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Has anyone done any work with low fire soda glazing? I do the majority of my work in the cone 06 range and would like to try soda glazing in my ceramic fiber Raku kiln. Has anyone tried doing this and how successful was it? What is the lowest temperature any one has achieved a successful soda firing? Has anyone done it with paper clay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Evans Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Teaching raku for 30 years , have had students try everything. Never had success w/ glazed exterrier but w/ slip and or burnished and adding soda at the end of the firing, letting it vaporize and then reduction, we got some beautiful surfaces, also experimentted w/ florids and soda sprays before putting pots in reduction barrel> great surface...wear repirator, outside use only. Have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 I soda fired terra cotta but it was at Cone 1. You just need to have the body vitrify in order to get the soda to flux with the body. So whatever the body temp is, you can soda fire it. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Evans Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 soda loves iron so terra sig like MS used is perfect. I've used a low fire red clay body that was perfect vitified at cone 1 in el kiln . Had pieces in sagars for additional organics and salts and got great surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted September 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Thanks for the tips, I guess the best thing is just to give it a try. It's the journey, not the destination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorie Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Teaching raku for 30 years , have had students try everything. Never had success w/ glazed exterrier but w/ slip and or burnished and adding soda at the end of the firing, letting it vaporize and then reduction, we got some beautiful surfaces, also experimentted w/ florids and soda sprays before putting pots in reduction barrel> great surface...wear repirator, outside use only. Have fun. I am interested in soda sprays and florids you mentioned. I've had some really nice results spraying ferric chloride (no reduction after) at 1300-1100degrees. but havent tried others. Thanks, Dorie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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