Thanks Mikkel, glad you love our product too! We dip our pieces so they are completely impermeabile (best for dishwashers)…& we also vitrify our restaurant tableware before saggar firing (you’ve probably also been told that’s impossible too!). We like to break rules & find solutions down here in Australia. 😉
Thanks. I know. In fact, I don't believe in "impossible". There are too many myths in this business - as I just recently did a video about ruclips.net/video/fJoSOcNIcJA/видео.html :-) I have also done some pots that was first glazed on the inside - some in porcelain fired to 1300 C, and then pitfired. There are off course, as you know, some limitations to this but even though many think you can't do this, it sure works.
do you have any experience with the durability. because sio2 water solutions (all naturally food safe anyway) are sold since a long time for cars as example. and have a lifespan of only a year. now comparing a car, that gets pressure washed and rained on, to a dish washer and food possible scratch with sponge or whatever situaton could be pretty similar.
The company I got it from said that the firstt dinnerware they sold in 2014 is still in use in restaurants - being used and dish washed every day. That is pretty impressive
@@deMibPottery interesting. so either they have some special ingredients besides the sio2 or the clay bond is stronger then car lack bond. is there solvent in the product smellable or does it smell like water?
@@deMibPottery interesting. but I guess it's more complex then just sio2 in water, is it naturally doesn't dissolve. so it would settle in the bottom after a while unshaked. also a thought. maybe the restaurants are not aware that the sealing is long gone ;)
No, its not just SIO2. Its a nano particle substance. I do not have the skills to understand the chemistry in it but it sure works. And no, if it came off you would see it as the water would no longer run off the way it does with it applied. Try for yourself and see how water react in a pitfired bowl with no sealing :-)
If the bowl and other dinnerware are to be washed after eating, should the bottom and sides be covered by this quartz solution? That would keep water from being absorbed by the bowl.
@@deMibPottery what other sealers are wash/dishwasherproof? And if you have more of the quarts bottles left...where do you live outside Copenhagen? We live in Sweden but visit family in DK now and then.
Thank you for sharing. Makes me want to try pit firing again 😊 Would this work on raku as well? Your pot had enough of a ring to suggest it is somewhat vitrified. Would you consider this quality more desirable for the successful use of Liquid Quartz?
Thanks :-) It depends on what kind of raku. For naked raku, horse hair raku and such it should work, but for glazed items it won't make it food safe. The typically crackles raku glazes is another issue.
@@deMibPottery Makes sense. I was think more of making the insides, and usually unglazed interiors of vases water proof. It would be a nice back up layer to making pieces you want to keep outdoors more waterproof too, like exterior wall hangings of low fired ware. The possibilities, beyond just being food safe, are exciting.
Have you toght to actually glaze the pitfired vases after with a real tranparent glaze but of lowest temperature? My main glaze im using melts at 700C but i think thats still a high temperature and would burn off a lot of the carbon from the vase. But i can make a glaze that melts at just 400 C thogh thats even more expensive than the liquid quartz or my 700C glaze.
I haven't tried (yet) - but one of my friends have and technically it all went right - even at higher glaze temps than you mention. However, I did not like his results too much, so I am not very inspired to do it. I like the raw finish of the pitfire outside :-)
@@deMibPottery The raw finish its beautiful. If you want to try somme really low fire glazes but colored and in small amounts( they are expensive but sold by gram), i think resin lustres would be a nice try for around 600 C .Im not talking about gold or platinum resin lustres but cheaper ones like mother of pearl or you can even make them yourself much cheaper ,even from cobalt nitrate,potassium dichromate,uranium oxide( this is an oxide but soluble ) with a bit of bismuth oxide or nitrate ,resin and oil. You can also make yourself gold lustre with somme gold chloride and linseed oil and somme sulphur.But the gold wont be as perfect as the comercial gold lustres plus a little bismuth . Or you can even add colourants and oxides to the mother of pearl.
Not sure how I found your channel but I am sure glad I did 🎉 hi from Australia 🇦🇺
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Thanks Mikkel, glad you love our product too! We dip our pieces so they are completely impermeabile (best for dishwashers)…& we also vitrify our restaurant tableware before saggar firing (you’ve probably also been told that’s impossible too!). We like to break rules & find solutions down here in Australia. 😉
Thanks. I know. In fact, I don't believe in "impossible". There are too many myths in this business - as I just recently did a video about ruclips.net/video/fJoSOcNIcJA/видео.html :-)
I have also done some pots that was first glazed on the inside - some in porcelain fired to 1300 C, and then pitfired. There are off course, as you know, some limitations to this but even though many think you can't do this, it sure works.
I think you have created some interesting effects.
Thanks :-)
"we shouldn't kill our clients", lol, always good advice. Would be interested to see how it takes the wax. Thank you for the video, Be well.
I did wax some cups on the outside after the liquid quartz had been applied and that works fine.
do you have any experience with the durability. because sio2 water solutions (all naturally food safe anyway) are sold since a long time for cars as example. and have a lifespan of only a year. now comparing a car, that gets pressure washed and rained on, to a dish washer and food possible scratch with sponge or whatever situaton could be pretty similar.
The company I got it from said that the firstt dinnerware they sold in 2014 is still in use in restaurants - being used and dish washed every day. That is pretty impressive
@@deMibPottery interesting. so either they have some special ingredients besides the sio2 or the clay bond is stronger then car lack bond. is there solvent in the product smellable or does it smell like water?
It have no smell at all. I guess it just absorb in a different way in the clay than a car
@@deMibPottery interesting. but I guess it's more complex then just sio2 in water, is it naturally doesn't dissolve. so it would settle in the bottom after a while unshaked. also a thought. maybe the restaurants are not aware that the sealing is long gone ;)
No, its not just SIO2. Its a nano particle substance. I do not have the skills to understand the chemistry in it but it sure works. And no, if it came off you would see it as the water would no longer run off the way it does with it applied. Try for yourself and see how water react in a pitfired bowl with no sealing :-)
If the bowl and other dinnerware are to be washed after eating, should the bottom and sides be covered by this quartz solution? That would keep water from being absorbed by the bowl.
You can. But on the outside you can also use other - not food safe, sealants
@@deMibPottery what other sealers are wash/dishwasherproof? And if you have more of the quarts bottles left...where do you live outside Copenhagen? We live in Sweden but visit family in DK now and then.
Thank you for sharing. Makes me want to try pit firing again 😊 Would this work on raku as well? Your pot had enough of a ring to suggest it is somewhat vitrified. Would you consider this quality more desirable for the successful use of Liquid Quartz?
Thanks :-)
It depends on what kind of raku. For naked raku, horse hair raku and such it should work, but for glazed items it won't make it food safe. The typically crackles raku glazes is another issue.
@@deMibPottery Makes sense. I was think more of making the insides, and usually unglazed interiors of vases water proof. It would be a nice back up layer to making pieces you want to keep outdoors more waterproof too, like exterior wall hangings of low fired ware. The possibilities, beyond just being food safe, are exciting.
Thats an option too. Try it :-)
Meget cool at du laver keramik nu 🙌🏽😎
Tak :-)
That is neat.
Thanks :-)
Have you toght to actually glaze the pitfired vases after with a real tranparent glaze but of lowest temperature?
My main glaze im using melts at 700C but i think thats still a high temperature and would burn off a lot of the carbon from the vase.
But i can make a glaze that melts at just 400 C thogh thats even more expensive than the liquid quartz or my 700C glaze.
I haven't tried (yet) - but one of my friends have and technically it all went right - even at higher glaze temps than you mention. However, I did not like his results too much, so I am not very inspired to do it. I like the raw finish of the pitfire outside :-)
@@deMibPottery The raw finish its beautiful.
If you want to try somme really low fire glazes but colored and in small amounts( they are expensive but sold by gram), i think resin lustres would be a nice try for around 600 C .Im not talking about gold or platinum resin lustres but cheaper ones like mother of pearl or you can even make them yourself much cheaper ,even from cobalt nitrate,potassium dichromate,uranium oxide( this is an oxide but soluble ) with a bit of bismuth oxide or nitrate ,resin and oil.
You can also make yourself gold lustre with somme gold chloride and linseed oil and somme sulphur.But the gold wont be as perfect as the comercial gold lustres plus a little bismuth .
Or you can even add colourants and oxides to the mother of pearl.