Six 30 ml plastic applicator bottles laid out with twelve colored blunt needle tips and six blue sealing caps

PRECISE GLAZE APPLICATION

6-Pack Applicator Bottles

We tested more than a dozen brands looking for a bottle that lays a clean line without clogging, spitting, or dribbling down its own side. This set won, and it was not close.

Six 30 ml bottles, twelve blunt luer-lock needle tips in four gauges, and six sealing caps. Once you buy a pack it is yours to keep, rinse and reuse forever.

$13.00 six bottles, twelve tips, six caps

In-studio purchase only. We do not ship any of this. If you are not a member standing in the building, this one is not for you.

30 ML BOTTLES 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 GAUGE YOURS TO KEEP

Which tip for which glaze

One rule covers most of it. Thick glaze wants a fat tip. Thin glaze wants a fine one. The tips are color coded so you can grab the right one without holding it up to the light.

14 gauge, green

The widest opening. Stroke & Coat and anything else with the body of yogurt. This is the tip that saves you when a glaze keeps stalling halfway down the needle.

16 gauge, gray

The everyday one. Most brush-on glazes and thicker underglaze go through it happily, and the line is still narrow enough to look deliberate.

18 gauge, teal

Thinner underglaze, detail work, outlines and lettering. Start here when you are writing words on a mug and go finer only if you have to.

20 gauge, pink

The finest. For glazes that pour more like water than like paint. Running Hot Chowder comes out barely thicker than water and this is the tip it needs.

HOW THEY GO TOGETHER

The tips are luer lock. Push the needle onto the cap and give it a quarter turn until it snugs. Needles are one inch long. If glaze is leaking around the collar, you did not turn it.

Keeping them alive

A 20 gauge needle with dried glaze in it is not a needle any more. Five habits and these will outlast the membership.

  1. 1

    Only fill what you will use

    Squeeze the leftovers back into the glaze bottle before you rinse. Glaze that dries in an applicator is glaze nobody gets to use.

  2. 2

    Rinse right away

    Warm water in through the bottle and out through the needle until it runs clear. Right away, not after you clean up everything else.

  3. 3

    Check the needle

    Fill it with water and squeeze. If it does not squirt straight, something is in there. Soak it before it sets.

  4. 4

    Cap them

    The six blue caps seal the threads, which is what stops a half-used bottle turning into a solid brick in your bag.

  5. 5

    Squeeze from the bottom

    Roll the bottle up from the base instead of choking it in the middle. Steadier pressure, steadier line, fewer blobs at the start.

Worth knowing

  • In-studio purchase only. We do not ship any of this. If you are not a member standing in the building, this one is not for you.
  • No refunds.
  • The bottles are yours. The glaze is not. Fill only what your project needs and pour the rest back into the studio bottle before you rinse.
  • Six bottles at 30 ml each. Twelve blunt tips, three each of 14, 16, 18 and 20 gauge. Six sealing caps. Needles are one inch long and thread on with a luer lock.
  • Rinse by hand and let them air dry standing up.
  • Every glaze flows differently through the same tip. Test on a scrap or a tile before you commit to the good side of the pot.
  • The needles are blunt, not sharp, but they are still steel tubes. Keep the caps on them around kids.

Grab a pack, keep it in your bag, and stop borrowing somebody else's.