Friday MugShot

I finally got a found a few moments to mix up Steven Young's black inlay slip for incised bisque ware pulled from Ceramic Arts Daily, and give it a whirl. I have made a few changes to his recipe... instead of using XX Sagger fireclay, I did a 1:1 substitution using Glomax, a calcined kaolin. This was just to mess with something and possibly help with fit, but mostly it was just to mess with something.

I also decided to mess with the colorants, forgoing the recommended oxide additions and just add Best Black Maison Stain 6600. Steve's recipe added 16% oxides to the mix and I matched this in a 1:1 ratio as well.

Steve's process of using incised bisque for inlay seems to work very nicely. Simply paint on the slip. Roughly scrape off the majority of excess. Use a green 3M pad to knock off the most of the remainder, and finish by simply wiping with a damp sponge.

Easy... took all of 3 minutes the first time through.

I'm totally curios to see how this fires off... stay tuned!

Black Inlay Slip for Bisqueware

This is the basic inlay slip recipe suggested by Steven Young Lee in his March 2010 article for Ceramic Arts Daily. The only difference is the 1:1 substitution of Glomax (a commercial calcinated kaolin) for the XX Sagger Clay originally in the article.

30 Grolleg
15 EPK
25 XX Sagger Clay or calcinated kaolin
15 Nepheline syenite
15 325 Flint

add:
4 Cobalt oxide
4 Manganese dioxide
6 Red iron oxide
2 Chrome oxide

I'm using this recipe as my base slip for exploring bisque fired line inlay this fall.