Tired of BISQUE firing ? try raw glaze, once fire ...here's how !? with Simon Leach 

Dennis parks wrote a book on raw glazing.

I bought your book with the cds in 2017 . I just now got where I can really have time to do pottery. Thank you for being great inspiration . It's good to see all your knowledge and contributions to pottery through the generations.

Thank you for the lesson in Raw glazing and your recipe for the glaze. Have a great Holiday.

Thanks!

I believe you are 100 percent correct about spraying the outside ! Since I learned to do it from you way back when you started one firing process you have saved me a lots of propane and electric

"That's why I am showing you" I love this comment and appreciate you sharing your knowledge!

It was a small subtle statement full of profound truth…. just because the say it’s “science”, doesn’t make it “true”….. we hear a lot of this these days in our world…..it’s very sad.

I've heard that pottery shards with woven patterns impressed into them led to the theory that pottery firing may have originated when baskets that had been lined with clay (probably to better carry stuff) inadvertently ended up in the camp fire. The first firing I attempted was in a campfire... on an island in the Gulf of Maine with whatever wood I could scrounge from the shoreline; surprisingly not that hard to pull off.

Thanks for the videos … I built my first kiln … glad I went with gas and flames rather then electric with computers

Thanks, interesting, relatively mild here too, central Portugal

I only did this a few times mostly with small pots. But everytime I see Simon doing it I want to try it too. I'm still afraid it won't work :D

Dear Simon, by mistake I glazed a dry piece of clay. Fired it to cone 8.5 and it was good. I glazed only the outer part.

I do this quite often especially if I don’t have a full load for a glaze fire I make a few pieces and raw glaze them to fill the kiln. Maybe I will try a full load of raw glazing.

Wretched Biscuit, love it, so I bought the domain

Thanks to your videos I don´t do bisque firings anymore.

Thanks.

Ahoy Simon! I tried this recently, glazing just the inside and lip. It worked, although the glaze layer seemed thinner than when dipping on bisque, giving that slightly rough surface.

Hydrostatic pressure?

Does the glaze need to have more clay in the recipe? Can we use any recipe with 2% bentonite?

Hi Simon. Thanks for another great demo. I'm wondering if you fire these a lot more slowly, especially at the beginning of the firing?