Spectrum Running Hot Chowder
1173
Spectrum Running Hot Chowder is a glossy flux from Spectrum's Flux line, fired cone 5 to cone 6.
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Spectrum number this one 1173, in their 1100 cone 4 to 6 stoneware series. We file it with the fluxes because that is what it does on a pot.
The quick version of Spectrum Running Hot Chowder
What this glaze does
Made by Spectrum. A flux is a running glaze: put it above another color and it melts down through it, blending as it goes.
Our sheet records it as green, yellow, orange, cream. What you actually get depends on what it ran through on the way down.
Applying this glaze to your work
A flux runs, so where you stop it matters more than how thickly you brush it. Keep it well up from the foot and expect it to travel further than you think.
Most people use a flux as a band near the rim and let gravity do the rest.
A flux runs, so where you stop it matters more than how thickly you brush it. Keep it well up from the foot and expect it to travel further than you think.
Most people use a flux as a band near the rim and let gravity do the rest.
From The Clay Hole University
More info about Spectrum Running Hot Chowder below, but first... Everything we teach about glazing, written down and taught properly. These are the glaze lessons, and they are a small corner of a library that runs from centering your first pot to selling your work.
GuideGlaze Brushing Techniques, Coat by Coat
GuideGlazing Big and Intricate Pottery Faster
GuideGetting the Most Out of the Mega Glaze Tool
GuideMaking, Logging and Dialing in Test Tiles
GuideGlaze Problems, Causes and Fixes
GuideGlazing on the Wheel for Even Coats and Clean Bands
GuideBubble Glaze with Dish Soap
GuideMixing Your Own Glazes: What It Actually Involves
GuideMaking a Glaze Catcher
GuideOxide and Carbonate Washes
GuideWhen to Use Celadon Glazes
GuideHow to Use Dipping Glazes
UnderglazeHow to Use Underglaze: Techniques, Rules and Firing
UnderglazeMishima: How to Inlay Slip and Underglaze into Carved Lines
UnderglazeWipe-Away Texture: Underglaze and Oxide Washes on Bisque
Food and function
A flux is a moving glaze, so the finished surface depends entirely on what it ran through and where it settled. Test your own finished ware before using a piece for food.
Because these run, they need a shelf protected from drips. Ask an instructor before firing one.
A flux is a moving glaze, so the finished surface depends entirely on what it ran through and where it settled. Test your own finished ware before using a piece for food.
Because these run, they need a shelf protected from drips. Ask an instructor before firing one.
Our test tile pots
This family does not have a test tile pot. The colors and results come out close enough to what the book shows that a pot would not tell you much more, so work from the printed Glaze Bible and the tile above.
More ways to pick a glaze
Membership levels that may use this glaze: Buy your own
Not sure whether this glaze suits what you are making, or how it works with our system here? Ask an instructor. That is what we are here for, and a two minute conversation at the shelf beats a fired pot you did not want.
About these images and what your pot will actually look like
We have done our best to represent every glaze here accurately, and you should still expect your pot to look different from what is on this screen.
Our glaze tile images are digitally created. They are built to show the character of a glaze, not to be a color match.
A screen is not a printout, a printout is not a test tile, and a test tile is not a finished pot. Each step in that chain shifts what a glaze looks like, sometimes a lot.
On top of that, the pottery itself changes the result: the clay body, how thick the glaze went on, whether it was brushed, dipped or sprayed, what was layered under or over it, where the piece sat in the kiln, how hot that spot ran, how fast it cooled, what was fired next to it, and how much texture the surface had. Two pots glazed from the same jar on the same day can come out different.
Treat every image here as a starting point, and treat a test tile fired on your own clay as the real answer.