How to Make powdered glaze for pottery

[@libbysmithstudio]

How Clayscapes taught me was to pour half the water into the bag, squish, and let sit overnight. This avoids a lot of dust. ... next morning, squish well, pour into a bucket and add the rest of the water (except 10% as you mentioned), and then follow the rest of your instructions. This method is super easy with less clumps and less clouds of glaze dust.

[@Mike-zh1xq]

Pro tip - Restaurant supply stores have those bigger fancy buckets with the lines on the outside. Also.. quart containers with the lids are friends.

[@emmereffing]

theyre called Cambros

[@divinewrath3142]

One tip- put the sticker on the bucket, instead of the lid so you don't accidently switch lids... Trust me on this LOL

[@EarthNationCeramics]

Truuuu

[@libbysmithstudio]

Label both... trust me. Lol

[@ryrire82]

Thanks, well delivered and informative. Really takes the fear out of mixing my own glaze from powder.

[@WhiteStoneCottagePottery]

Big bonus that we don’t have to buy and store all the separate minerals! Great for small studios like mine.

[@gwynsul8178]

Good Vid s always, like I do mine. 2 tips: 1/ I leave my mixed glazes to stand for a couple of days then mix again, gives better results. 2. Toilet brush (NEW!) is best mixing tool I have found, bristles get in corners of containers. Still no idea why people buy those little pots of glaze.

[@PaulByrne-ev2zm]

Very informative and useful video. Thanks!

[@sarahsantas1899]

Thank you for a great video. I plan on trying this soon.

[@denisebattle5008]

Thank you so much for this excellent information. I’ve always wondered about the powdered glazes.

[@EarthNationCeramics]

They are very easy. I promise 🙏

[@tuchiramirez5038]

Thank you for the good (as always) explanation. How long does a glaze last once it is mixed with water?

[@EarthNationCeramics]

Forever essentially as long as it's well mixed and doesn't sit with an agitation for too long. I've had my 5 gallon bucket of Randy's red for about 6 years now. They just have to be well mixed before use.

[@Tulippina1]

Exellent demo! One thing that I do differently is to minimize the powder in the room: - putting most of the required amount of water in the bucket and then opening the mouth of the bag inside the water and letting the power slide in keeping the bag on until all of the powder is under the water - I find that this does prevent any powder getting in the air while making the glace What do You think?

[@EarthNationCeramics]

I've heard of companies doing that before and suggesting it, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think if I was going all out I would most likely put a fan blowing away from me.

[@Aaron.101]

Thanks

[@micah06v8]

Question. I noticed on the instruction sheet it said to use distilled water. Is that what you used? Does it make a difference? I would think in places that have a heavy mineral load in their water that it would, but I don't know for sure.

[@EarthNationCeramics]

98% of the time, unless you're using extremely heavy metal water like something they had in Flint Michigan, The water does not matter. I used tap water in multiple cities when I travel to make glaze and as long as you keep the amount of water the same it really doesn't matter.

[@gsandau]

Have you ever mixed a glaze and found that it's still too thick or even too thin? I ran into this with Mayco's Tigers Eye.

[@EarthNationCeramics]

Usually when I buy powdered glaze there's instructions for how much water I ought to add. But if it still feels too thin or too thick I will often doctor the water myself to my own needs. For example Clinton pottery red from clayscapes needs a certain amount of water but I often add more because I like the white color. The facet here is control. Putting your own glaze together you can control it far better than a bottle glaze.

[@catheyfoss2890]

tap water? ours has alot of chemicals in it

[@EarthNationCeramics]

It truly doesn't matter unless there's something like a very high amount of led. If you want to comparison you can do it with bottled water and tap water with the same amount of water and see which one you like better but 99% of the time it comes out the same.

[@catheyfoss2890]

@@EarthNationCeramics thank you

[@mark314158]

​@@EarthNationCeramics If your tap water contains lead - then contaminated glazes are the least of your problems... ⚰️💀

[@gembolding]

Minus the particulate mask its just like baking a cake🤷🏻‍♂️

[@EarthNationCeramics]

Very true. That's kind of why I made this video. So many people are intimidated by this I was hoping making a video on how to do it in less than 20 minutes would ease that.

[@gembolding]

@@EarthNationCeramics It does :) Same goes for making the glaze recipies yourself. At the end of the day its just a clay pot🤷🏻‍♂️ Im working on getting my own kiln exactly because I want to be able to just make my own recipies of glaze and try to get the glaze exactly how I want it to be. Ive always worked in my families restaurant, and honestly, making glaze really is just like baking🤷🏻‍♂️ If you get the basic mix wrong it goes to shit but often you can play with the flavours and colours as much as u want.