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<div>Thank you Norm Stuart for your feedback. I really want a vibrant yellow and I will research on this site you advise me. And I like really matt glazes. I have a blue barium one that is perfect (in blue). But I tried to substitute the oxide for two types of yellow mason stains (12%) and the results are always beige.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>matt hansen titanium download</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD &#10004;&#10004;&#10004; https://t.co/xTtLucpokw</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>I saw on Facebook a matt yellow glaze from a japanese or chinese(?) potter. It was vibrant and really matt. Do you think it's possible in a cone 6 temperature or maybe I should try to find one on low temperature? Is it possible matt glazes on cone 06 or only in cone 6 up?</div><div></div><div></div><div>The recipe on this test tile is "^6 Lemon Frost" in our Insight-Live Glaze Database. It uses 10% Mason Stain 6450 Praseodymium Yellow and 5% titanium dioxide. The titanium dioxide makes the glaze very matte, but also diminishes the yellow color. To bring out more yellow color, increase the percentage of stain to 20% or so, and/or use less titanium dioxide.</div><div></div><div></div><div>High levels of calcium, zinc, strontium of barium also form mirco-crystalline matte surfaces. The first two are often called Calcium Semi-mattes and Zinc Semi-mattes. Ingredients like Calcium Carbonate or Wollastonite are added.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Increasing the alumina to silica ratio can also make glazes matte, but this sometimes comes at the expense of the glaze not fully melting. Unmelted glazes are not food safe, but are almost always matte. Use less silica and more kaolin or clay, or add alumina hydrate.</div><div></div><div> </div><div></div><div> Danielle Gouvea Costa Resende said:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Yes, matte glazes tend to be soft but this one is very high in silica and very durable. I have been using it since 2004 and some of my bowls and mugs have been through countless dishwasher cycles and they look like they were fired yesterday. I have substituted zinc oxide for the barium one for one and it works almost the same.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>A cone 6 boron-fluxed MgO matte developed at Plainsman Clays by Tony Hansen (a link below will take you to its page there). This page contains technical and mixing information about the recipe, their page, under code MG6CDM, contains mixing and usage information.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This recipe has the best suspension and application properties when it is thixotropic (that involves mixing it thinner than normal and gelling it using Epsom salts). Target a specific gravity of 1.43-1.44 (about 90 water to 100 powder, by weight; that means that in 1900g of slurry there is 900 water and 1000 powder). Then about add 1g of Epsom salts per 1000g powder to increase thixotropy. This should make it creamy and it should gel after a few seconds on standing still (add more Epsom salts if needed, but be careful, it is easy to overdo it).</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Screen through 80 mesh (there are tiny agglomerates that will not break down without screening). </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Important note: The degree of matteness is very dependent on the cooling rate of the firing. In our circumstances, fast cooling (e.g. free-fall in a lightly-loaded or smaller kiln) produces the desired silky matte surface and slow cooling (e.g. a heavily loaded kiln) produces a matter and drier surface. The G2934Y version of this recipe (a chemistry-equivalent that sources much of the MgO from a frit) is also subject to this. Do test firings to determine if your cooling rate will accommodate this or whether you need to blend in some glossy G2926B to shine it up a little (for example, try 75% matte and 25% glossy, the mixing can be done by simply pouring together, volumetrically, the two slurries). One more thing: Certain colors will matte this more than others, so specific adjustments might be needed. Again: Be sure to control production firings so their rate-of-cooling matches that of the test firings you do to develop a glaze.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>In the silky state that we prefer it does not cutlery mark and has good (but not too much melt flow). This glaze has plenty of SiO2 and Al2O3 and good melt fluidity, which strongly suggests that it will be very durable and resistant to leaching.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>The calcined kaolin is needed (if you use all raw kaolin the glaze will shrink and crack during drying and crawl during firing). If you do not have calcined kaolin make your own by bisque-firing a container of kaolin powder. If you do not have EP Kaolin, just substitute another. If it settles convert some of the calcined kaolin to raw. If it does not dry hard enough or does not suspend well, use more raw kaolin and less calcined.*</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Although this is a matte glaze it flows well (it is well melted). If fired ware has pinholes the solution lies elsewhere. Bisque ware as high as possible. If you gel the slurry a little, or preheat the ware, you can bisque even higher. Try applying a thinner glaze layer and use whatever technique necessary to get an even and quality laydown. If still needed, consider using the double-soak firing schedule.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>With certain stains and opacifiers this base can present issues with glaze crawling. It is not completely clear why this is, test in your circumstances before making large batches or glazing high volumes are ware.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Plainsmanclays.com makes this recipe as a premixed powder.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>*If you adjust raw:calcined kaolin proportions more than 5%: Raw kaolin has 12% weight loss on firing, more is needed to supply the same amount of SiO2 and Al2O3 to the fired glaze. For example, if you drop the calcined kaolin by 5 you need to increase the raw kaolin by 5.6 to maintain the same overall chemistry (5 + (5 x 12% / 100 = 5.6). If your kaolin is not too plastic you might be able to use all raw kaolin (18.3 + 13.9 + (13.9 x 12% / 100) = 34.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is M340S with G2934 matte white outside and G2926B glossy white inside (both have 10% zircopax). Consider what can go wrong. Zircon glazes love to crawl. I either add CMC gum to make it a base coat (or use a combination of tin oxide and zircopax (like G3926C). The clay has granular manganese added to produce the speck, if accidentally over-fired, even half a cone, it will bloat. And the clay body: The outer glaze is ugly on dark-burning clays. And it is drab on porcelains. It does not even look good on this same body if the speckle is not there. Another difficulty: Controlling the degree of matteness. I blend in about 20% of the glossy, otherwise it would fire too matte. And the firing schedule: PLC6DS - its drop-and-hold step is critical, without it the surface would be full of pinholes. Another problem: If the kiln is heavily loaded and cools slower than the programmed ramp-down, the surface will be too matte. Finally, glaze thickness: If it is too thin it will look washed out and ugly. Too thick it will bubble and look pasty.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The body is Plainsman M390. These are commonly-used base glazes. The top one is an MgO matte, next down is a calcium matte. They react very differently to these additions. Notice also the difference when titanium dioxide is applied thickly. Tin oxide fires whiter than zircon (e.g. Zircopax). Each opacifier has issues. Tin is expensive. Titanium is difficult to mix into the slurry (screening required), not as white or opaque, variations in thickness produce more difference in results and it can turn blue. Zircon is more likely to cutlery mark, twice as much is required and it amplifies the color of any iron present.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Stains can work surprisingly well in matte base glazes like G2934. But they perform differently in a matte host glaze. The glass is less transparent and so varying thicknesses do not produce as much variation in tint. Notice how low many of the stain percentages are here, yet most of the colors are still bright. A good reason to minimize stain concentration is to avoid leaching. We tested 6600, 6350, 6300, 6021 and 6404 overnight in lemon juice, they passed without any visible changes. It is known that MgO mattes, like this one, are less prone to acid attack that CaO mattes. A down-side to the MgO-matte-mechanism is that chrome-tin stains do not work (e.g. 6006), high CaO content is needed in the host glaze to develop the color. The inclusion stains 6021 and 6027 work very well in this base. As do the 6450 yellow and 6364 blue. And the 6600 produces an incredible gunmetal black. The 6385 is an error, it should be purple (that being said, do not use it, it is ugly in this base). The degree-of-matteness can be tuned by blending in some G2926B glossy base.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is a calcium matte base (as opposed to the magnesia matte G2934). The clay is Plainsman M390. 5% Zircopax was added on the left (normally 10% or more is needed to get full opacity, the partially opaque effect highlight contours well). 5% tin oxide was added to the one on the right (tin is a more effective, albeit expensive opacifier in oxidation). The PLC6DS firing schedule was used.</div><div></div><div></div><div>G2934 is a fantastic glaze, but only on the right body and with the right firing schedule. That is not the case here! This firing was done without any control on the cooling cycle. The added zircopax (to whiten it) stiffens the melt and makes G2934 pinhole-prone on dark burning bodies (because they generate more gases during heatup in the kiln). The clay on the right is Plainsman Coffee Clay, it contains 10% raw umber (a super-gasser). The centre one is Plainsman M390, it bubbles glazes more than buff-burning bodies. The left one is M332, it is a coarse grained and that seems to vent gases well enough here to eliminate the pinholes. The surface of the two on the right would be greatly improved using the C6DHSC firing schedule but, unfortunately, the slow cool would matte the glaze surface, making it really ugly. The PLC6DS drop-and-hold schedule might also reduce the pinholes, without matting the surface. What about without the zircon? There would be fewer pinholes, but micro-bubble clouding, which is not visible here because of the opacity, would make for a truly ugly effect on dark bodies.</div><div></div><div></div><div>G2934 is a popular matte for cone 6 (far left). The mechanism of the matteness is high MgO content (it produces a more pleasant surface that cutlery marks and stains less than other mechanisms such as crystallization). But what if it is too matte for you? This recipe requires accurate firings, did your kiln really go to cone 6? Proven by a properly set firing cone? If it did, then we need plan B: Add some glossy to shine it up a bit. 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