Commercial Glazes vs Mixing Your Own – A Cost Comparison
This post will give you an idea about the differences between commercial glazes and mixing your own from cratch.
What Glazes Can You Make with Limited Materials?
When you start looking for glaze recipes and have a limited number of materials on hand, you may find that you have almost (but not quite) all the materials for a million glaze recipes, but you can’t find a recipe that only uses the materials you currently have.
Glazy Demo – Adding Recipes and More
Do you use Glazy.org to store/share your glaze recipes? If you’re just hearing about Glazy for the first time, you should definitely go check it out. It’s a ceramics recipe website that allows you to store recipes with photos, share them with the community and analyze the chemistry/UMF of your glazes, all in one place.
Intro to Glazy.org – Video Tutorial
If you’ve never used Glazy.org before, this is a helpful tutorial to get started. In this tutorial, I go over the basics of using the site.
Adding Colourants in Glazy.org – Video Tutorial
In this tutorial, I go over how to add colourants to a recipe and keep the colourants separate from the base recipe so your base adds up to 100% and your colourants are shown as additions.
Material Substitutions with Glazy.org – Video Tutorial
In this tutorial, I show you how to use Glazy to make material substitutions using the UMF (Unity Molecular Formula).
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