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For Flux Sake — 115 episodes

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1

Can I use ash from a volcano in my glaze?

2

What materials should I buy to start mixing glazes?

3

Is it best to use the medium or fast fire setting on my kiln?

4

Why are my plates cracking?

5

What causes carbon coring in clays?

6

Do I really need to sieve my glazes?

7

Should I make my own clay?

8

Do kilns really need peep holes?

9

Is there a difference between real and fake ash glazes?

10

Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins on food safe glazes

11

Why is the last 200 degrees of the firing the most important?

12

Why is my casting slip hard-panning?

13

Help my clay is plucking!

14

Halloween Extravaganza with Lord Celsius, Wizard of Clays, and Copper Carb

15

What are the do's and dont's of working in a community studio?

16

How do you convert glazes to European materials?

17

What's the history behind Orton cones' unusual numbering system?

18

Is the bacteria in reclaimed clay a problem?

19

What makes a glaze have a wide firing range?

20

What defines low-fire ceramics?

21

How does a kiln sitter work?

22

How can you tell if a glaze is fully melted?

23

Are metallic glazes similar to melted metal?

24

Can you adjust a cone 6 glaze up to cone 10?

25

Does how tight a kiln is packed affect its final temperature?

26

What does vinegar do to clay?

27

Fluxed Up with Steven Young Lee

28

Are ceramic sealers safe to use on functional ceramics?

29

Episode 100!

30

Fluxed Up with Susan Feagin

31

When do glazes actually melt during the firing?

32

Who are we?

33

Fluxed Up with Meredith Host

34

What should we know about cristobalite and quartz inversion?

35

Fluxed Up with Paul Andrew Wandless

36

Are there budget-friendly black and purple glazes?

37

How can I measure thermal expansion?

38

How can I get the best firing out of my new kiln?

39

Fluxed Up with Pattie Chalmers

40

What's up with all those pinholes?

41

How can I make a speckled clay body?

42

Do I have to glaze my pieces?

43

How do you make ceramic bakeware?

44

Fluxed Up with Osa Atoe

45

Bentonite versus Epsom Salts?

46

Why is this glaze so gloopy?

47

Why do pots get hot in the microwave?

48

Fluxed Up with Brett Kern-Happy Halloween!

49

How can we help North Carolina?

50

Are cone 6 soda fired pots durable?

51

What's so special about a Bristol glaze?

52

Fluxed Up with Lisa Orr

53

Is that an Oolite?

54

The agony and ecstasy of Gillespie Borate

55

Fluxed Up with Nick Sevigney

56

Shivering Sucks

57

Can I use paint on my ceramics?

58

Cone packs or cone plaques?

59

Does your water source affect glazes?

60

Can ceramics be safely used for mixing hair dye?

61

What's the deal with Shino glazes?

62

Should I be afraid of manganese?

63

Glaze Doctors Live from NCECA!

64

Electric Kiln 101 with Freddy Fredrickson pt. 2

65

Electric Kiln 101 with Freddy Fredrickson pt. 1

66

Should I bisque higher than I glaze?

67

How can I make durable floor tiles?

68

Should I be afraid of lead leaching?

69

What are those symbols on my glaze label?

70

How often can I recycle my clay?

71

Can a glaze flaw be aesthetically attractive?

72

Can I create atmospheric effects in an electric kiln?

73

Do I have to sieve my glazes?

74

The end of an era...

75

What is the advantage of diversifying your fluxes?

76

Cone six or bust!

77

Happy Halloween! From flame ware to the blood bricks of Boston

78

How can I tell if my matte glaze has fully melted?

79

What does wedging actually do to clay?

80

What's the best way to test clay absorption?

81

Season 3 coming soon!

82

How does throwing on the potter's wheel effect your body?

83

How can I safely use gold luster?

84

Why does clay shrink when fired?

85

So what's up with lava glazes?

86

Can I really fire my pots in a microwave?

87

What is this mystery material?

88

How do Crystalline Glazes work?

89

Should I trust my cones or my thermocouple during a firing?

90

Why does my glaze leave flash marks on the clay?

91

For Flux Sake Live! Vol. 2

92

Does clay really have memory?

93

What do I do if my glaze is hard panning?

94

Why do so many cultures use unglazed pots for cooking?

95

What's the deal with Yellow Iron Oxide and Red Iron Oxide? Are they the same?

96

Is it ok to recycle my throwing clay and use it as a casting slip?

97

What is the best way to transport glazed bisque ware to the kiln?

98

The Kiln Episode…and holiday gift guide!

99

Can you create reduction glazes in an electric kiln?

100

What is the best way to display test tiles in your studio?

101

Happy Halloween: How do I stop this creepy crawling glaze?

102

What is Quartz Inversion?

103

Why is my clay dunting?

104

What is the best way to recycle clay?

105

Can I use beach sand in my clay or glazes?

106

Season 2 coming soon!

107

What should I do with my left-over glazes?

108

The Pregnancy Episode

109

Does the coefficient of expansion really matter for a glaze?

110

Slippy, Slip, Slip

111

Should I be afraid of silicosis?

112

For Flux Sake Live! Vol. 1

113

The Four Horsemen of Pinholing

114

The gang tackles slip casting

115

What do I do if my kiln loses power?