Recipe sharing

Glazy.org is a free ceramic recipe sharing website where users can upload glaze recipes and photos to share with the ceramics community.

Material substitutions

In this tutorial, I show you how to use Glazy to make material substitutions using the UMF (Unity Molecular Formula).

What happens if you run out of a material, or you don’t have access to a material you find in a recipe? You can easily substitute one material for another by matching the chemistry. In this video, I replace Whiting with Wollastonite.

Learn glaze chemistry

Glazy.org isn’t just a place to store recipes and images. It also has the benefit of being a glaze calculation software that converts recipes to their Unity Molecular Formula (UMF) so you can see the underlying chemistry of each formula.

If you’re a glaze nerd like me, this is very important information to have in front of you while viewing a glaze recipe. If you want to learn glaze chemistry, it’s a great way to get used to looking at the UMF, even if you don’t know what it means yet.

Support Glazy.org

Glazy.org was created and is maintained by Derek Au. If you love Glazy like I do, consider supporting Derek so he can keep the site up to date and running smoothly for all of us https://www.patreon.com/derekau

More tutorials

Adding Colourants

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If you love learning about and discussing glazes, I'd like to invite you to my free social learning Facebook group called Understanding Glazes with Sue. The group is full of videos and discussions about firing, mixing glazes and fixing various glaze issues. Please join!

Learn to Mix Glazes from Scratch

If you’ve never mixed a glaze from scratch before and want to learn, I teach an online workshop called Glaze Mixing Essentials where I show you all the steps to mix a glaze and then test a base glaze with multiple colourants. Click the link for all the details.

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