In This Issue

* While the Smoke Clears – Labor Day & Hard Drive Crash
* Copper and Crackle
* Piepenburg Patina - Which Recipe is Correct?
* When in Japan...
* Wet Blanket or just call the Fire Department
* Raku Links
* Workshops - Arizona 
* Pottery Business Available - Utah
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* Piepenburg Patina – Which Recipe is correct?

A reader had found two conflicting recipes for Piepenburg 
Patina: One recipe from the book, Raku by Tim Andrews 
http://www.garyrferguson.com/andrews was the following:

Gerstley Borate 4 cups
Bone Ash 2 cups
Nepheline Syenite 3 cups
Copper Carbonate 1 cups

Versus the formula on my website and my Raku Glazes book 
http://www.rakuglazes.com of:

Gerstley Borate 4 cups
Bone Ash 3 cups
Nepheline Syenite 2 cups
Copper Carbonate 1 cups

Well I did some checking and even found the recipe in 
Robert Piepenburg's book Raku Pottery 
http://www.garyrferguson.com/piepenburg and the recipe in 
Piepenburg's book matches the second recipe, so it appears 
the recipe in Tim Andrew's book has the quantity backward 
for the Bone Ash and Nepheline.

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