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Author: Stephen Murfitt
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 793170

Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0873492765
Dewey Decimal Number: 738
EAN: 9780873492768

Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Readers will find anything and everything they want to know about glazes in this one practical and workshop-friendly volume.

More than 1,000 glazes are illustrated so readers can see the color and surface response each offers. The book covers utilitarian domestic ware and decorative ceramics, as well as firing and glazing techniques for both. It also features valuable information on preparation, application techniques, health and safety considerations, and kiln firing cycles.

Author Stephen Murfitt specializes in the process of raku and smoke-fired, hand-made ceramics. His pots have been widely exhibited in galleries throughout Britain and included in many public and private collections.

Includes 700 glaze recipes for gloss, matte, dry, and textured finishes

More than 1,000 gorgeous photos illustrate various surface responses

Valuable information on health and safety considerations

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

Better Used for Kiln Fuel August 12, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

This book contains no valuble recipies. All of the earthenware stuff is lead based and most of the other recipies use stains and other pre-made colors, one "recipie" specifies to use 100% of a commercial red glaze, with no modifications at all. This book is such a waste.

1 out of 5 stars

Huge disappointment May 17, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I bought this book because I confused it with another title and I was so disappointed with it I felt I have to warn others. Since I work with stoneware in the temperature-region of 1240-1260 C I wanted a book with lots of stoneware recepies - but almost all stoneware glaze recepies in this book are adjusted to 1290-1300 C !!! I don't know a single potterer that fires stoneware at those temperatures and have never heard of one either. I feel bewildered and cheated. And the book brags about having over 700 recepies but many of the recepies are the same with only a slight slight change in the amount of colouring oxides! There are also recepies in the book that are exactly the same.
I don't know how such a bad book could ever have been published to be frank.

1 out of 5 stars

Do not buy this book if you fire at low temperature!!! June 12, 2003
26 out of 27 found this review helpful

Although the book is nicely presented with durable material/cover/binding, it was a major dissapointment. I would have returned it back to Amazon, but unfortunately I have opened the shrink wrap packaging! Almost all the earthenware formulas have Lead Bisilicate in them!!! The remaining few are made up of colourants/stains and ready made mixtures! The stoneware and porcelain parts look good, but hey.. most of the hobbyists and amateurs like me fire at low temperatures! I don't recommend it at all.

2 out of 5 stars

Not as good as I thought it would be. April 5, 2002
69 out of 70 found this review helpful

While doing research for some new earthenware glazes I came upon this book which has a large section dedicated to that subject (as well as raku, majolica, stoneware and porcelain).

The test tile examples are beutiful and it is laid out in a different fashion than normal; by color not colorant. I found that to be helpful.

Then I started reading the glaze recipes.... a MAJOR percentage of the earthenware recipes use lead bisilicate. I was sceptical, but since some of the glazes were marked for "Domestic" use I decided to try them out.

That ended up being a colosal waste of time, energy and money. All eight glazes that I tested for "Domestic" use leached lead in testing at home. I don't know how one would begin to use or sell glazes that leach lead. From a practical view I don't think I would ever be able to tell a customer that it's a lead glaze, but not to worry '""cause this book I got the recipe from said it was okay to eat off of."

I'm quite disappointed. For people who do low-fire ceramics (which would be about every grade school , junior high, hobby-ist...I know of) this is most definately NOT the book for you. The author needs to be a little more up front about what's in the recipes and exactly what kind of lead leach test those recipes passed to be considered for "Domestic" use.

Someone out there needs to write a very comprehensive book in the same style for just low-fire ceramics that may include these glazes (along with alkaline glazes etc....), but be more realistic about usages.

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