Kktbs23

Thank you!! I'm always in awe of how willing to share knowledge anyone in ceramics is. If I don't have any of the thin slabs, would it work to put old bisque fired pieces under them that I have no intention of using?

I put the starch spray in just a dinky plastic spray bottle and then painted on the glaze. It definitely took longer to dry between layers than normal glazing but nothing crazy.

Thank you SO much for your response. I really appreciate you laying it out the way you did and being so thorough. Bummer that you're re-firing didn't come out how you wanted! Those finicky kiln gods. I tried the heating method also and was really disappointed with the results. The glaze was so thin and it was literally impossible to handle even to wipe off the bottoms because it just smudged off in my fingers leaving blank spots. I made a homemade corn starch spray by warming 2½ cups water with 1½ tbsp corn starch, bringing to a boil and then letting cool. I sprayed the pieces all over and it worked remarkably well! The glazes really stuck to it after I let it dry on the pieces. And they also did not smudge at ALL when handled. As long as the re-firing is successful then I think this may be a good method!

So I pulled a few pieces from my last firing that were super underwhelming. I have been thinking about trying to re-fire them just because I haven't tried it yet and it's only a few pieces so not super time consuming. I've read everywhere about heating pieces, hairspray, starch spray, etc. I first heated the pieces and then dipped them. When I went to clean off the bottoms, the glaze inevitably smeared off where my fingers were. My thought was to maybe use spray starch all over the already applied first layer of glaze and then paint on another layer of 2 of glaze. If I already have a layer of glaze underneath the starch spray - will that cause any problems in the firing? All I can picture in my head is the glaze just totally oozing off the pot in the kiln haha and I would like to avoid that!