This is brilliant. I have a still and have long time made my own alcohols. I am just getting into my pottery firing journey and would love to give this a go one day. Would you mind sharing what ABV the alcohol is? Great stuff.
Wow! awesome technique. I didn't catch what the pine needles purpose was, some interaction with the alcohol? And as others have said, viewing the finished piece would have set the video off perfectly.
pine needles were to start the original fire once the hot piece was loaded in the bowl ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gugj8t7lHDE.html
@@shawnfelts8183 You took the time and effort to reply to every single comment about not showing the finished piece with a link to the same video. Well I clicked your link and guess what? It still doesn't show a picture of the finished piece. It still ends with the piece under a bowl in reduction and mostly obscured.
Hey Patrick, I didn’t film any of the videos myself. The video through OVCAG starts with some finished pieces, and another ends with me holding the piece and showing the results. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7en9SrQ9F_U.html
@@shawnfelts8183 I apologize and retract my comment! Although the first 2 links I clicked that you put in comments you appear to have accidentally linked to this same video [ID gugj8t7lHDE] which was just a pure coincidence. I didn't read the URLs and notice they were different. Just assumed that all of them were the same.
Melany Yzer not as a vacuum chamber, just to avoid more air from getting in. When the alcohol is sprayed in, it partially burns, taking up all the oxygen and forming a tiny bit of carbon monoxide within the glaze that reduces the dark copper oxides back to metallic copper. As the temperature drops a bit of air is introduced, creating an oxidizing environment again and the colors form as the glaze oxidizes, using up any available oxygen, with the color stabilizing when there is a neutral atmosphere, allowing neither free oxygen nor free carbon monoxide within the glaze. Once things have cooled the glaze is close to impermeable and the color won't change.
Oil is a renewable resources, you can even make oil alcohol and methanol by burning wood, farting or by allowing things to decompose or by using dung, oil underground renews itself naturally.
