Easy Way to Adjust Glazes - Featuring Steve Loucks

[@joanlizscott]

I hope this stays up indefinitely. The info is worth it's weight in gold.

[@VirginiaWood-w9c]

Thank you. I have nearly 5 gallons of slop glaze, accumulated over 3 years, that I have been too scared to deal with. I think I have the confidence now to deal with it. Your black slop glaze was stunning.

[@Baylajo]

Thank you. I learned so much from this video. Your explanations are straight forward and easy to understand. So happy I found this video.

[@aubreytauer7308]

I have a homemade spray booth, glad to know I’m not the only one! I love yours, very clever. I just use a big plastic storage container with a metal banding wheel, all the excess glaze drops to the bottom and rolls to the back because the handle of the container tips it slightly back, making it easy to suck up the glaze (or slip or terra sig or underglazes!) and if not contaminated and clean, transfer it back to its original container, if mixed I sometimes put it in its own container to be used with the glazes that I already know layer well over each other for basically a new glaze I know will look nice, or just into the slop glaze bucket which I am glad to know I am already doing the right thing dealing with my extra glaze plus the glaze that settles out in my wash bucket, much better than to just put it in a bisque bowl and fire it and throw it in the garbage which I know a ton of people do! I wear a respirator and have a high powered air cleaner with the smallest micron filter available running and keep it running for 48 hours after, and when the weather is nice (not often in MN, too cold, too hot, too stormy, too many bugs getting in my glazes) I try to do it outside. I have thought about putting a bathroom exhaust fan in the back through a hole in the container, with dryer tubing taking it out a window. But then I wouldn’t be able to collect so much of the extra glaze, which would be a bummer. On the other hand, while I can protect myself I can’t protect my cats and family members, though with the air cleaner and doing it in the furnace room which is tiny and out of the way in the furthest corner of the house nowhere near any rooms anyone uses. But I’m conflicted. Obviously this is not big enough for spraying my 4-8ft sculptures, & I don’t have room in my house for a booth big enough. I sort of rig painting floor plastic in a tent in my studio around me & the sculpture and the air cleaner (wearing respirator), also with the plastic covering the floor. I think very little gets out of the tent and it is easy to rinse out the plastic into the glaze slop bucket so both can be reused, then again run the air cleaner for 48 hours in that area, but it is a much bigger room & the cats come in & out (need a door!).

[@hspruce]

This video is a goldmine. I can hardly wait to start resuscitating some of my messed-up batches of glaze. I am so glad that I could not bring myself to throw them out! Thank you SO MUCH!!!

[@lamodernista]

This presentation is VITAL for anyone interested in creating their own glazes...thank you!!

[@sybillestahl8646]

I love your Comet cleanser glaze!

[@garyhouseone]

Great demo, thank you!

[@Clayboybunny]

This is so cool. I have a shite ton of ingredients and barely a clue what to do with them. I get discouraged cause I don’t know how to measure in small batches which is what I need, but I feel iam learning.thanks for this

[@wendymaxwell9986]

So important to learn as much as possible about glazes - Steve Loucks BOOK is GREAT!

[@bom417]

Hi. Thanks for this wonderful video. I have a question: what do you do about foodsafety?

[@alisaliskinclausen2474]

A good way to take the fear out of making glazes and get people making and adjusting glazes. Thanks.

[@electronicfreak1111]

Great video

[@james87106]

Thank you, these techniques made my recent round of glaze firing much more simplified! Love this approach.

[@AkingBones1]

Thank you for such an easy to understand approach to adjusting glazes, ive spent hours trying to find something like this,,,,

[@lennieunderscoreboy]

Excellent explanation thanks

[@elainethepotterful]

Love this lecture- thank you very much! I wish we had the same attitude to sharing info in the UK.

[@brigettebarfoed5129]

Sooo very educating. And really well put in an understandably way. I'm danish living in France doing pottery since 7 yrs. I only wish Steve Louks lived near by!!!!! But many points taken in & look forward trying out the testing. Many thanks.

[@andreaskonig3767]

This was very comprehensive glaze making session I heard so far. The hardest part about glaze making is the waiting for the results in the next firings before one can use them effectively.

[@maestasify]

Andreas Konig- The totem animal for potters is Turtle. Why? Because it is very patient but always gets to its destination. Patience is the lesson with all you do with clay and glazes. Then patience becomes part of your daily life. It is quite miraculous.

[@edelgyn2699]

@@maestasify LOL The concept of patience is an individual perspective - for me perseverance is the key because one might be patient, but lack the will to keep trying. I'm impatient, but a stubborn bastard so if I think there is a way to do something I usually pursue something doggedly. I suppose we each make individual gains from the processes and experiences making pottery imparts?

[@2Langdon]

Brilliant! Thanks very much for the down to earth approach.

[@natashagomperts4539]

Brilliant!! Brings so much into reach. Can't wait to try testing in this way and also try his glaze reclaim ratios. Cool!

[@jake505710]

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE LECTURE AT NCECA. THANK YOU FOR POSTING!

[@simonebertino8600]

Very interesting video

[@gabiglaezer8685]

Great movie very well explained and great for anyone who wants to test their glazes. Thank you so much!

[@nickacoutin2505]

Watched this a month ago and now watched it again , about as simple as it gets just hope I remember it when I do it. Thanks so much!

[@mamemckee2190]

Thanks, NCECA!

[@lamodernista]

Does this apply to high-fire glazes as well?

[@janakchauhan]

thank You

[@marionengelbach6519]

this video made it very easy to understand! I feel more opened to test some of the glazes I have a problem with. Thank you!

[@aubreytauer7308]

Any suggestions if you spray your glazes, how best to make test tiles? Generally they say for your regular test tiles (not these line blend ones) to use whatever method you most use to apply to your ware, but for my sculptures I 80-90% spray & occasionally apply in a “painterly way”. I feel like either dipping or painting onto my test tiles definitely gives me a different look than what I get when I spray, but it is pretty challenging & very time consuming to apply glaze to test tiles with my spray gun. I can certainly use a tip that narrows the spray significantly to fit it on the tile, and even do some layers, but it is more concentrated then when I usually apply it using other tips to my sculptures. I have about 5 or 6 total cups for the spray gun, but I usually do lots of test tiles at a time, so I have to clean out the spray gun between each color and then wash out the cups every few glazes. It just isn’t ideal for test tiles, what do other people do? Most people who I know that spray their glazes dip their tiles. I don’t know anyone personally that sprays them. I also don’t have a ton of bisque broken pieces of things and I’m a little wary of making test pots instead of tiles as my clay is quite expensive & I reuse everything, plus I have a very busy schedule and making a bunch of extra pots just for testing would take up time I don’t have…(notably I use 6+ claybodies that all my glazes get tested on, so that is why I don’t have time to make up a bunch of extra test pots 😂 Suggestions solicited…

[@veronicaalessandrello1022]

Stunning glazes! thank you for this video.

[@BabyBlueKoi]

Thank you! This was the best explanation on KZbin

[@sybillestahl8646]

This makes so much sense! Thank you.

[@nedludd8633]

Line blends ,tri-axials , percentage method as detailed by Nigel Wood and Brogniarts formula

[@TheRakuman]

Bravo!

[@l3r2tt2]

12:58 Which carbonate did he mention here? I can't seem to make it out...

[@jjdawg9918]

To me sounds like Strontium Carbonate, Nepheline syenite, Copper Carbonate. BTW: I think that is Gerstley Borate at 12:43

[@ariellanetzel6267]

You wouldn't happen to have this in a written form, would you?

[@CoxJoxSox]

OMG - I love that red piece at 745 - what made that colour?

[@KobLobs]

the type of firing - it was reduction for the red one

[@aubreytauer7308]

I don’t think it was the type of firing, it was an amber celadon so it would have iron or rutile in it, and he says in the video he ran a color test on that glaze and fired the red bottle in an electric kiln. The only ways I can think of getting a red like that in oxidation would be using a red stain (which rarely look as lovely and with as much variation between thin and thick areas, red stain glazes tend to look quite flat) or by doing a chrome-tin red. While you can get some lovely reds with iron saturate glazes, they definitely have a much more brownish-orange look to them especially where it pools or breaks on texture. I think the likeliest answer is chrome-tin, they can cause just as beautiful of reds as copper reds in the right hands, but I’ve never seen one quite that color. He was really quite forthcoming with everything else in the lecture I was so disappointed he didn’t elaborate more with what he did with color trials with that glaze! I’m sure he’s been asked many times since then in public 😂 It would certainly be my first question if I met him!

[@debwarrr]

Yeah, thanks!!

[@renugupta3017]

Sir what is pack in means here when u r demonstrating how to lower or increase the temprature of glaze...

[@natashagomperts4539]

HI Renu, 'pack' refers to the specific way you load your kiln. ie lightly packed/loaded with space for the heat to move around more, or a heavy packed kiln with the maximum you can get in. It also refers to what you place where.

[@padicivello6641]

Great! Thanks

[@jackiesaunders3515]

Very helpful thanks