Abbots Crater Lake Crackle Dry Powder Glaze - RUFFSHUFFLER

Abbots Crater Lake Midfire Glaze is a glossy, reactive, food safe (in Abbots opinion) glaze. It will need less water than a standard glaze so aim for around 1.3kg to 1.4kg weight per litre. Mixing Abbots Mid-fire Glazes Most potters will mix the glazes to suit the application style and thickness required. Most of the Abbots glazes give best results when thick. Ash glazes will give best results when thin. Some glazes such as the Iron glazes and Sea Urchin are quite fluid and application thickness should be controlled to avoid messy runs! In general, you should expect to mix 1.0-1.25 litres of water to 1Kg of glaze. Pass through an 80# sieve once or twice. Most Abbots glazes are very well suspended. If you wish to enhance the suspension qualities you can do this by cautious incremental additions of calcium chloride, epsom salts or plaster of Paris before sieving. Firing Abbots Mid-fire Glazes We do all our development work in a 1 cubic foot laboratory kiln and to ensure representative re...