Glazes Cone 6: 1240 C / 2264 F (Ceramics Handbooks),   ISBN:9780812217827

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This book is useful for those hobbyist who are getting into glaze development and may not know all the permutations available for glazes. It is nice in that the color tiles often portray the effects of graded additions, allowing the beginner to see trends of effects produced by various components. I found this book helpful, and also agree with the other review about some factual errors and UK slant.

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My only complaint was the UK ingredients...HOWEVER, I was able to find, with a lot of research and help from Hammill Gilespie, Minex, Standard, EPK Fla. etc., suitable substitutions here in the USA. The photographs are extremly good tho I'm not wild about spiral binding. It would have been nice to have had more information on Raw Materials. All in all its a very fine recipe book.

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This book is interesting for anyone who studies glaze or wants to make some glazes of their own (even if their working at different temperatures).

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After Snail Scott's review, there's not much to say, as she gives an excellent and in my opinion, accurate overview of the book.

I myself was disappointed, however. A few factual errors are indicative: zinc is NOT an alkaline earth, but a transition metal; and while magnesite is ideally magnesium carbonate, not all magnesium carbonate is magnesite, that is, the two are NOT synonymous. Also, I was perplexed by the insistence on using zinc oxide in nearly all the bases; not only is it expensive, but it also has a powerful (and usually undesirable) effect on most colourants.

Maybe I just got used to superb glaze references, and was expecting more. Even so ... a decent buy, and it gave me a few good ideas, but I'm slightly regretting having bought it. (I would, however, recommend Clay and Glazes for the Potter and The Ceramic Spectrum: A Simplified Approach to Glaze and Color Development.)

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This book contains a few interesting recipes that you cannot find from Internet. Providing with more recipes and color images of examples,it is more fun to read than the Cone6 glaze book written by John Hesselberth and Ron Roy. Some of the raw materials are only available in UK but we probably can find substitutes here in US.