kelleyisfj Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 I'd like to hear some compelling reasons for using a sieve for making glazes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeble Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Lumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilestrick Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Gets out the lumps. A mixer won't cut it, unless you have a high shear industrial mixer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Most compelling is that if you want your glazes (typically) to look good, seiving assures that. Consistency. best, .......................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Most compelling is that if you want your glazes (typically) to look good, seiving assures that. Consistency. best, .......................john Dear All, I totally agree with all that has been said. Grit. Lumps that somehow get into the glaze and you don't notice them until they are smack gob on the middle of your pot after firing. When at all possible I like to seive before I dip or pour. Then I gently review the piece looking for little air bubbles. I smooth these out as well. Any cracks in the glaze from big gobs I scrape off and start again. And I think the taliman seive is a great invention. I recall the days we painted glazed through seives with brush. It was hard work. If you don't have one a talisman is great for the initial mixing. I used the wire strainers you can get from the dollar store when it comes to seiving smaller amounts. Nelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 And I think the taliman seive is a great invention. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 yep. lumps. Ugly white ones. I was a guest artist at a center recently and used the center's glaze as part of prepping for a firing demo. it was not sieved. Got awful lumps on a very large bowl. I tried refiring it when I got home but you can't cover up those lumps. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kohaku Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 Not just lumps, but general distribution of ingredients. You can get streakiness, blotchiness, color variation... or even faults like crawling in some cases. I once skipped the sieve step with a glaze that was heavy on the copper oxide (just wielded the mixer like madman). It looked OK in the bucket, but gave the most oddball, variegated effects I'd ever seem. Not even displeasing... but totally unpredictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 Can''t imagine making glazes without sieves, I have a small one for test glazes and a bowl type for larger batches. The larger one is about 30 year old and is starting to wear out I keep patching it with silicone. I'm turning 60 Monday so I think I'm going to treat myself and order a talisman. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 I'm turning 60 Monday so I think I'm going to treat myself and order a talisman. Happy Birthday, Denise. And you won't go wrong wit hthe Tallisman seive. Altjough I wish they still made the body of aluminum (I have one of each). best, ..............john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 I sieve all of my glazes every time I go to glaze. I sieve first through an 80 mesh sieve, wash the 5 gallon bucket, then sieve the glaze back into the original bucket through a 100 mesh sieve. If you don't sieve, you have lumps and inconsistency of texture. Go buy a sieve.I can't believe I used the word sieve eight times. TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted October 14, 2012 Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 I sieve all of my glazes every time I go to glaze. I sieve first through an 80 mesh sieve, wash the 5 gallon bucket, then sieve the glaze back into the original bucket through a 100 mesh sieve. If you don't sieve, you have lumps and inconsistency of texture. Go buy a sieve.I can't believe I used the word sieve eight times. TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 As I was mixing a new batch of slip this afternoon and using a scrub brush to work the slip through a 60 mesh sieve, this discussion of the benefits of a Talisman kept ringing in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Talisman 80 mesh for me-everything goes thru it and all is well afterwards. I have all the screen sizes but long ago found the 80 to be enough for 99.9% of needs-now after wearing out 3 of them its still true. The big labor savers are when clay is your livelihood pre made clay power wheel Talisman sieve Power mixer for glazes car kiln electric slab roller I wish I had them all when I was younger-or at least my body does. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idaho Potter Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 If a glaze hasn't been used in awhile, it should be sieved before using because ingredients tend to clump and lump if left undisturbed. I was laughed at for sieving my raku glazes ( I guess because so many of them are made using borax) but running the glaze through a screen mixes everything well, and if there are small particles (usually crystalline) I use the last of the mixing water to rinse them back into the mix, so I lose nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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