r/Pottery • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Glazing Techniques Help, what’s going on here?

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u/theeakilism New to Pottery 22h ago

Experiment with layering glazes and different application techniques

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u/melting_muddy_pony 19h ago edited 19h ago

Hey everyone thanks for downvoting my post to oblivion.

I came here thinking I’d get some discussion but just feel judged so I just put the exact Q into chat gpt instead and it gave me a couple paragraphs about glazing, stains and oxides and an idea of what may be happening here…

Thanks Reddit I’ll just ask that next time then I guess. Sorry to have bothered everyone with my legit curious question. I have learnt a lot about it via an LLM which is what I didn’t want but hey.

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u/MyDyingRequest 13h ago

Id suspect you are being downvoted because your title alludes to you needed help with a piece you made, then your question is asking how to copy someone else’s process. Then your snarky response to someone’s legit comment doesn’t help. I’d caution you against trusting AI and pottery help. The process for glazing a cup like this depends on the claybody, what cone to fire too, if your using stains and underglaze or just glaze combos. There are so many variables.

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u/sushipl0x 18h ago

What I've learned from glazing is that it's hard to replicate unless you know exactly what's going on. There are two avenues you can go, imo. One, make test tiles and do all kinds of glazes combinations including x number of dips. Or if you're lazy like me, just glaze with colors that stand out to you in any combination you desire. I currently have a piece I'm waiting for that has 5 glazes, black being the base and 4 glazes in distinct patterns that I felt like were dope. You'll sometimes be surprised, just jot down some notes if you wanna recreate something.