Resistance is useless!
Apr. 17th, 2024 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrLike most potters, I use wax resist on the bottom of my pots, to keep glaze from sticking to the shelves. On mugs, I just dip the piece in paraffin; we keep an electric frying pan plugged in with an eighth in of melted wax, just enough to cover the bottom and a little up the side of the mug.
Where I need a more controlled application, say on a trimmed bowl foot, I brush on liquid wax resist. It's wax that's been emulsified to be suspended in water. Kinda like Johnson's floor wax used to be, before everyone went over to acrylic. There are two generally available types, Reed and MobilCer-A.
I've always preferred Reed. In my experience, it dried quicker and smoother, didn't bead up on itself. MobilCer always seemed to leave beads of wax that , unless you let it dry for hours, attracted glaze like glue.
This last time, we were out of Reed, all we had in the studio was an ancient half-gallon of green-dyed MobilCer we'd inherited from a retiring potter's studio. I diluted it by about a third with water, and you know what? It worked just fine, maybe better than Reed because the color made it easier to see where I'd applied it. All this time, I'd been applying it too thick.
Huh.
Where I need a more controlled application, say on a trimmed bowl foot, I brush on liquid wax resist. It's wax that's been emulsified to be suspended in water. Kinda like Johnson's floor wax used to be, before everyone went over to acrylic. There are two generally available types, Reed and MobilCer-A.
I've always preferred Reed. In my experience, it dried quicker and smoother, didn't bead up on itself. MobilCer always seemed to leave beads of wax that , unless you let it dry for hours, attracted glaze like glue.
This last time, we were out of Reed, all we had in the studio was an ancient half-gallon of green-dyed MobilCer we'd inherited from a retiring potter's studio. I diluted it by about a third with water, and you know what? It worked just fine, maybe better than Reed because the color made it easier to see where I'd applied it. All this time, I'd been applying it too thick.
Huh.