The Potter's Palette

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Summary: A picture book of glazes!
Review: A great book to have if you want to embark on the journey of making your own glazes. This book is so useful because there are pictures of test tiles of the glazes at alkaline, lead, oxidation, and reduction firings. Included in the pictures are tests of increasing strengths of oxides added to the base glaze recipes. Nine oxides, four glaze stains, and three opacifiers produce a broad range of color. Includes some raku examples as well.

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Summary: THE POTTERS' PALETTE
Review: A GRUPE OF FRIENDS WE DISCUSS THIS BOOK AND WE WERE AGREE: WE DID NOT LIKED. WE HAVE IT IN SPANISH.

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Summary: The Potter's Palette Rocks!
Review: Beautiful, clear test-tile images are arranged by colorant, firing temperature and atmosphere. Gives a very good sense of the characteristics and uses of the materials found in a typical glaze lab. The Potter's Palette won't solve your glaze problems (there are plenty of books that address crawling, pinholing, etc) but it's uniquely instructive and very inspirational. For the intermediate to advanced potter.

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Summary: Useless Pretty Book
Review: I had to return this book because it is so poorly done. Many of the example glaze tiles didn't even tell whether they were fired in oxidation or reduction. It was so frustrating to see a glaze I wanted to use, but have no idea how to make it . Poorly organized. Nice color pictures, though.

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Summary: Like the pictures-hard to trouble shoot
Review: The thing I love about this book is the visual examples of the results you should expect from your the glaze formulas & varying oxides. The results I have achieved frequently do not demonstrate the same results. That is not unexpected...but this book does not give any suggestions or recommendations for troubleshooting significant differences in results. It also does not allow for differences in clay bodies...expansion rates, etc. I've found the book to be a good general guide as to the impact of colorant combinations, but not much more in practice.

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Summary: Like the pictures-hard to trouble shoot
Review: The thing I love about this book is the visual examples of the results you should expect from your the glaze formulas & varying oxides. The results I have achieved frequently do not demonstrate the same results. That is not unexpected...but this book does not give any suggestions or recommendations for troubleshooting significant differences in results. It also does not allow for differences in clay bodies...expansion rates, etc. I've found the book to be a good general guide as to the impact of colorant combinations, but not much more in practice.