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What is a glaze?

Make your own

Make your own: This is the most advanced form of glazing. Using recipes, you buy raw materials and mix them. In addition to the other things, you will need recipes, which may be obtained from many books and web site. You also need the chemical, which make up your glaze, a scale, a sieve, and a temprement which allows experimentation. Sometimes your glazes won't turn out quite right. You will have to learn how to modify those glazes to solve whatever problem you're having. Other times they will be stunning.

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