November  2006    Issue #44
Published by
Gary R. Ferguson – Raku Artist
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In This Issue
* While the Smoke Clears 
* Smokeless Alcohol Raku
* Pac-Man Fever
* Shelf Eating Glaze Again
* Inherited Clay
* Flame On
* Raku Links
* Workshops 
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"Our class fired again last night, and the instructor 
followed your tips and voila. Boy do we have copper. Its 
great knowing we can do it, and I really appreciate your 
help. Thanks again!"-Shannon P. http://www.rakusecrets.com 
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* Pac-Man Fever

Anyone remember that song from the early 80s? Well a reader 
asked the following:

I copied your "More Free Raku Glaze Formulas" off the 
Internet and have a question about your Pac-Man formula. It 
is stated as follows:

Post Pac-Man 
Gerstly Borate 50
Nephline Syenite 30
Bone Ash 30
Copper Carbonate 30
Red Iron Oxide 2.5
Bentonite .5

Can you confirm these quantities? I'm assuming they are 
percentages but they do not add up to 100% like most of 
your formulas. 

Yes, this is a correct recipe but it is not the Pac-Man in 
Robert Piepenburg's book (see below). This recipe is mixed 
by weight and indeed does not total to 100%. Some recipes 
are just not normalized to 100%.

Now the other Pac-Man recipe (included in my Raku Glazes 
book at http://www.rakuglazes.com  is as follows and is 
mixed by volume:

Post Pac-Man II 
5 parts Gerstley Borate 
1 parts Bone Ash 
1 part Nepheline Syenite 
1 part Copper Carbonate 
1/8 part Red Iron Oxide 

Try them both and let me know your results.

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Fired Up with Raku is the recently released book by Irene 
Poulton is now available. Check out the details at:
http://www.garyrferguson.com/firedupwithraku.htm 
I will only be making this available for a few more days.
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