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Weighing Pottery Glaze Ingredients

Glazing is the final artistic step in clay pottery. Learn some tips on how to from a pottery expert on how to correctly weight pottery glaze ingredients on a scale in this free video clip.

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So now that I've got my bucket prepared and I know what the weight of the bucket is, I'm ready to start measuring the ingredients. So my first ingredient is neflin (phonetic) cyanide, and I want 300 grams of that, so I'm going to set my scale to 300, plus 62 1/2. Put on my dust mask. And I keep my neflin cyanide in a five gallon bucket here, and I just use the scooper, get a little bit of it, and just start adding it to the bucket until the needle starts to rise on the scale. Need a little bit more. And once the needle goes up to the top, I take just a spoon and start taking it out until the needle goes back down and once the needle's gone down, I just tap this spoon just to get a little bit to come off because it's very sensitive, and just a few little bits of powder are going to make a big difference with that needle. And you do want to try to get it as close as possible to the actual zero line, because like I said, it's very important that you be very accurate with glazes. So that looks pretty good, and now I'll move on to the next step.

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Weighing Pottery Glaze Ingredients

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