Fixing the recipe may also be practical. That would reduce running, improve fit and increase durability. If the crazing does not stop the next step is to substitute some of the high-expansion KNaO, the flux , for the low-expansion MgO , that requires doing some chemistry in your insight-live.
Ravenscrag Slip does not craze when used by itself as a glaze at cone 10R on this body, so why would adding a relatively low expansion flux like CaO make it craze? This is an excellent example of the value to looking at the chemistry the three are shown side-by-side in my account at Insight-live. And talc? It contains SiO 2 , so the SiO 2 is not driven down nearly as much.
In addition, MgO has a much lower expansion than CaO does. The far left one is a very thick application. Center: Kittens Clear. The porcelain for all is Plainsman P If a thick layer works on P it is a shoe-in to fit M If it also passes the oven:icewater test.
This mug is pinging loudly and literally self-destructing in front of my eyes! The glaze is under so much compression the inside is pushing outward, the outside inward. Spiral cracks are developing all the way up the side.
Small razor-sharp flakes are shivering off convex contours. I accidentally fired a low-temperate talc body at cone 6 the glaze is the Alberta Slip base cone 6 glossy. The clay body is not overly mature , but it just has an extremely high thermal expansion talc is added to increase the expansion to fit low fire commercial glazes, they would craze without it. Shivering is serious, it is a mismatch of thermal expansion between body and glaze. It can happen at any temperature.
A cone 10R grey stoneware mug that has begun to craze on the inside. The greyer coloration around the craze lines indicates that water is soaking into the slightly porous body.
This mug has lost the ring it had when it was new it is only about a year old. It could be refired to be as good as new but would soon return to this condition. The only real solution is to reformulate this glaze to reduce its thermal expansion.
This Cone 10 matte mug has been refired to attach decals. During the refire the Quartz-containing body passed up through quartz and cristobalite inversions while the glaze did not all of its quartz was converted to silicates during the previous glaze firing. The sudden expansion in these two zones stretched the glaze and cracked it. Had that glaze been better fitted under some compression it would have been able to survive.
These are filled in horizontally with finer cracks. Crazing is caused by the glaze being under too much tension. This tension occurs when the glaze contracts more than the body during cooling. Because glazes are a very thin coating, most will pull apart ar craze under very little tension. Crazing can make foodsafe glazes unsafe and ruin the look of a piece. There are two types of crazing, each with a different cause: 1 immediate crazing appears when the piece is removed from the kiln or shortly thereafter and is caused by glaze body fit glaze fits too tightly to body and 2 delayed crazing , which shows up weeks or months later and is caused by moisture getting into the ware.
With these four points in mind, you are now ready to take a corrective step, or a combination of steps to solve glaze crazing. Crazing can often be eliminated simply by applying a thinner glaze coat. With some glazes, a thinner coat is not an option, but often a slight decrease in glaze thickness will stop crazing. Add increasing amounts of flint without changing the amounts of the other ingredients to the recipe; the finer the mesh, the better.
Fire the glaze kiln to the correct cone over a longer period of time. Fire one or two cones higher, but only if the glaze will not be adversely affected. Add flint mesh to the clay body.
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Welcome to Soul Ceramics! Login Create Account. What is crazing? What are the key causes of crazing? Crazing generally occurs with age but there are other factors which cause immediate crazing which include: Temperature and humidity changes which causes the glaze to crack It can be caused by moisture getting into the glaze and forcing cracks in the glaze It can be caused by being bumped or knocked repeatedly, causing small cracks in the glaze Crazing can also occur when the glaze shrinks more than the body of the ware.
How can you avoid crazing and what can you do to fix it? Changing the glaze The aim of changing the glaze makeup is to reduce the expansion of the glaze and therefore to stop it contracting as much on cooling. Changing the clay One of the key things you can do to the body of the clay is to add silica, which helps to dry out the body of the clay and helps it to expand and contract with the glaze.
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