Expert: Leisha Hiester - 6/30/2008

Question
I am currently working with a cone 6 porcelain. I was not thinking at the time
of firing and fired all of my pieces to cone 6 and I still have to glaze them. As
you might have expected, the glaze is not sticking well to the pieces and is
taking forever to dry. My question is this, have I completely botched this
beyond repair or can I still successfully glaze my work; if so do you have any
suggestions on speeding up the glazing process?

Answer
Kelly,

Been there, done that....but not on porcelain, mine was stoneware. I did some interesting glazing with oxides and slips. Not sure how you're finishing your pieces, but if you're intent on finishing as you usually do, it will work, but it will take lots of time for the glaze to dry. I've successfully re-glazed a few glazed pieces even, but it did take forever for the glaze layers to dry. :( Wish you the best & hope you'll let me know how this turns out.

Leisha