A "rock" with SCM and friends. No air compressor needed.

This is ^10R SCMO with Silicon Carbide 0.75%, Spotted Black, Hanna's Fake Ash, and Watercolor Green on Laguna Half and Half. There were two, but the other one was sold before I got a picture. It looked even better than this one.

The SCM was applied one layer with a sponge. The rest were sprayed on with a mouth sprayer like this:

This really makes it practical to do one or two pots at a time. If you use the compressor, booth and sprayer, the setup and cleanup takes so long you really need to do a bunch of pots to make it worth your while. I plan to make a few more of these with the ^6 glazes...

SCM Cool and Hanna's Blue Ash over Coyote Clay Aqua over black underglaze

Not crazy about this one. Probably didn't put enough SCM and Hanna's Blue Ash on it. This is on Continental mid-fire white stoneware.

SCM Cool and Hanna's Blue Ash over Water Blue (Revision 1 from Pottery Making Illustrated) over black underglaze

The best of the lot. This is on Continental Super White.

This one is also pretty good. Also on Continental Super White.

This one had quite a few pinholes and craters inside and out. It's on Continental Mid-fire White Stoneware I'll probably try to re-fire.

SCM Cool cups

SCM Cool, Water Color Blue, Hanna's Blue Ash, Jenn's Juicy Fruit on Continental Clay Super White.

SCM Cool craters

This is what happens to me a lot when using SCM over white stoneware (Continental mid-fire white in this case). The poured Mayco Green Tea was just as bad on these cups. Maybe someday I'll learn my lesson.

SCM Cool and Water Blue

The outside is SCM with Hanna's Blue Ash, Water Color Blue, and Jenn's Juicy Fruit. The inside is Water Blue Revision 1  (from Pottery Making Illustrated July/August 2013). These are Continental Clay Super White.

A couple more experiments

I think these were a little more successful than the last experiments.

SCM Cool sprayed over Coyote Clay Aqua "Celadon" brushed over black underglaze. Mayco Green Tea inside. There was a brushed line of Hanna's Blue Ash under the rim. I'm going to try Burke's Strong Celadon in place of the commercial glaze next time.

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Why the pink?

Two mugs. Different firing, but using the same schedule. The dry glazes are from the same batch, but they were mixed (with water) at different times. The mug on the left was sprayed the day after mixing. The mug on the right was sprayed several weeks after mixing.

The glazes are SCM Cool, Hanna's Blue Ash, Water Color Blue, Jenn's Juicy Fruit. Mayco Green Tea Inside and over the lip.

Here's another cup from the firing with a little more of the blue glaze.

Doesn't seem like it was the firing. This vase was sprayed at the same time as the mug on the right, but it was fired at the same time as the mug on the left and it looks like the mug on the right.

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Strontium Crystal Magic - Cool

Porcelain mugs

Finally got enough pots to do another firing. This time it was cone 6 with "Strontium Crystal Magic - Cool" (unmodified) from the recipes on the Steven Hill DVD. The other glazes are Hannah's Blue Ash, Water Color Blue, and Jen's Juicy Fruit (with iron) sprayed lightly over everything else. The liners are Mayco Oyster and Green Tea.

I used these glazes on two types of stoneware (Mile Hi Ash and Laguna Whitestone) and three types of porcelain (Mile Hi Aspen, Laguna Frost, and "The Coup" from Matt and Dave's Clays). I had really good luck with all the porcelains and fairly poor luck with both types of stoneware (craters and pinholes even though I bisque fired to cone 03). I think I'm done with anything other than porcelain for SCM.

Firing schedule was:
   400/hr to 2070
   100/hr to 2165 hold 1 hr
   9999/hr to 1700
   50/hr to 1600 hold 1 hr
   50/hr to 1500.
Total firing time approx 13 1/2 hrs.

Bowls

A pitcher

Cups

More cups

More to come...

Sprayed SCM/SiC at Cone 6 1/2

These are SCMO + 0.75% Silicon Carbide sprayed on with Jen's Juicy Fruit, Mayco Cinnabar, Water Color Green and Hanna's Fake Ash sprayed over. The liner (plus a ring around the lip) is MC6G Raw Sienna. All clays are ^5-7 from Mile Hi Ceramics.

In the first image, the left pot is porcelain and the right pot is a dark brown stoneware. The glazes are identical.