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Step-by-step Case Studies
In these I am going to show you how to use your account at Insight-live.com to do things that were not possible until now. It is about the data. The data you let slip by in your testing up until now and the new data you will be recording as you organize that testing in a way you never did before. It is about work. If you are willing to do it you will able to learn things about your process and materials, understand them, learn to control them and take them down new roads that were not possible before.
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Videos
These are videos that use Desktop Insight or Insight-live to solve problems with a glaze, body or material.
These videos are hosted on our channels at Youtube.com and Screencast-o-matic.com.
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A Broken Glaze Meets Insight-Live and a Magic Material
Use Insight-Live.com to do major surgery on a feldspar saturated cone 10R glaze recipe with multiple issues: blistering, pinholing, crazing, settling, dusting and possibly leaching! (watch at Youtube).
Analysing a Crazing, Cutlery-marking Glaze Using Insight-Live
A high-nepheline, zero-silica cone 8 silky matte pottery glaze is cutlery marking and crazing. Let's take a closer look and determine why? (watch at Screencart-o-Matic.com).
Create a Synthetic Feldspar in Insight-Live
A step-by-step of how to duplicate the chemistry of Minspar by mixing other materials. You will learn the calculate process, the type of testing to do and how to keep track of the results with notes, pictures and links. (watch at Screencart-o-Matic.com).
Creating a Cone 6 Oil-Spot Overglaze Effect
In this video I use my Insight-live account to do the chemistry to convert an existing MgO-matt glaze into a tin-opacified, high-surface-tension melt for double-layering over a gloss black. I also use it to record my physical testing. (watch at Screencart-o-Matic.com).
How I Developed the G2926B Cone 6 Transparent Base Glaze
How I found a pottery glaze recipe on Facebook, substituted a frit for the Gerstley Borate (using glaze chemistry), compared using a melt flow tester, added as much extra SiO2 as it would tolerate, and got a durable and easy-to-use cone 6 clear. (watch at Youtube).
How I Formulated a Cone 6 Silky Matte Glaze Using Insight-Live
I will show you how found a recipe on Facebook, assessed it, substituted my own materials, tested it, adjusted it. Now it is like a cone 10 dolomite matte. (watch at Youtube).
Insight-Live Meets a Silica Deprived Glaze Recipe
This glossy ceramic glaze lacks SiO2 (detrimental to its hardness, leaching resistance, resistance to crazing). Let us see how much silica this glaze will accept! (watch at Youtube).
Predicting Glaze Durability by Chemistry in Insight-Live
How to spot out-of-balance indicators in the chemistry of ceramic glazes that suggest susceptibility to scratching or cutlery marking. (watch at Youtube).
Replace Lithium Carbonate With Lithium Frit Using Insight-Live
Raw lithium carbonate can often be replaced with a lithium-containing frit if you can do the chemistry. And you can at insight-live.com. (watch at Youtube).
Substitute Ferro Frit 3134 For Another Frit
I use my Insight-live account to do the glaze chemistry to replace Ferro frit 3134 with combinations of three other common Ferro frits. We will see the challenges of doing this in three different types of recipes. (watch at Screencart-o-Matic.com).