Negeurra Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Hi guys, I am fairly new to ceramics and to this community. I wanted to ask if anyone had experiences/knowledge around sprinkling iron filings on pots with wet surfaces - right after glazing. Is it food safe? I know that there are glazes with high iron content but wanted to achieve a uneven effect with bigger speckles. This idea came about while watching and reading about a father and son potters from K. H. Wurtz. Here's a link of the video: On their website under their bio they mention the use of iron filings sprinkled on pots too. Any information about temperature, type of glazes, type of clay and their effects would be much appreciated. Regards, Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta12 Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Lovely video!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabama Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Hey, I have a Hunter 505 Brake Lathe in my garage. You can have all the metal filings you want!!! I need more quartz sand than filings! See ya, Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Excellent video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrim8 Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Wow! That was really beautiful. I like the gas powered heat gun - looks like more fun than electric. I think I will try the iron filings on a cone 9 piece or tile. There is another way to get that effect and its something I am working on with slip right now. I'll post pics when I succeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negeurra Posted May 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Wow! That was really beautiful. I like the gas powered heat gun - looks like more fun than electric. I think I will try the iron filings on a cone 9 piece or tile. There is another way to get that effect and its something I am working on with slip right now. I'll post pics when I succeed. Yes, please share your experience. I am also curious as to how the temperature affects the iron filings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Benzine Posted May 20, 2016 Report Share Posted May 20, 2016 Would this work at low fire oxidation? Might be something interesting to try in my classroom, especially considering my school's Industrial Tech class, probably has no shortage of fillings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negeurra Posted May 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 When I used to salt glaze, I occasionally sprinkled iron spangles (fine iron filings - dust, really) into the flashing slips I used. It worked extremely well, especially if you remembered to give the slip a good stir between applications - the iron spangles settled out from the rather thin slips quite quickly. But the results were excellent; flashing with an extra dimension of speckled goodness, all under lovely saltiness. Perhaps a variation on that idea would work for other ways of glazing - a thin (neutral) slip with iron spangles, applied at leather hard, bisqued, then glazed in the usual way. Do you have any pictures of these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerdry Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 I might have read this on CAD...I'm not sure. You can take steel wool pads and bisque them to get lots of fine iron dust. I put it on too thick and it was awful...no picture as the piece got pitched and I don't remember what glaze I used. But, I gave some to a friend who lightly sprinkled it on wet white glaze and it turned out lovely. I've been meaning to try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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