jrgpots Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 I was watching a video on tempering chocolate by seeding it with the right crystals. Can I "seed" a piece in the kiln that has a supersaturated glaze with crystal particles to start the crystal formation? I think I can dust the pots in the cooling phase with a long tube. Would this work? Jed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 When I was working at MassArt back in the early 70's, I had the pleasure of working with Charles Abbott before he retired from there. Charles was an Alfred grad and a glaze specialist. He did a lot of macro-crystaline glazes at high fire. He would sometimes seed the new raw glazes with a flake of already fired crystalline material from a prior fring that he carefully prepared. It was simply a thick flake of fired glaze with serious crystalline material on it. Many times he would then get a crystal started centered on where that flake had been placed in the raw wet glaze coating (taking into acount some vertical movement due to the fluid glaze). But sometimes it did not work. I think it is another "test, test, test" deal. best, ............................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrgpots Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 As many have said before, "There are no new ideas."...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Found this on the web...... not crystalline, but typical of Charles' work 'back in the day': http://images.cloud.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/0410/10/1_6ac90379b625b27d0d74abfff2b43950.jpg best, ...........................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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