With the warmer weather hopefully around the corner, it is time to think of cranking up the pottery wheel and checking the kiln, for the start of spring and summer pottery sales buildup.

To help celebrate, Cobcraft is offering a 10% discount sale. (Discount off present retail price)

This is for the month of September and only while our present in store stock lasts.

10% off all single (20kg) bags of clay

10% off Claybright colour (75ml and 200 ml jars only)

10% off pottery glazes (500gr and 2.5kg packs)

10% off all raw glaze materials

10% off all tools

Payment : Cash, Visa, Cheque or Direct Credit

Our bank Account number 020842 0127462 00

Competitive freight rates.

Check our new improved website.

• More precise search facility. While it is nice to browse the product range, the new improved search facility makes it even easier to find a particular product.
• Example:   In the drop down product category window, select pigments. Then type blue and click search. This will bring up all the blue colour names in the pigment range. 
• Convenient pdf price lists for individual printing or comparision. You can print out the particular product range you want, even with colour samples (glazes,pigments) if required.

Handy hint for September.

RADOS Ceramic Medium

Why do I need a ceramic medium? Because ‘fritted’ glazes (Abbots clear, Abbots White etc) have no clay content in them…..nothing to bind them. They are literally ground glass and you are trying to suspend it in water. You are left with a film of water on top of your glaze. As you dip and remove the pot some glaze washes off. RADOS will suspend your glaze. The’ curtaining’ you used to get has gone away… and the glaze will not settle like a rock on the bottom of you container.

RADOS also hardens the powdered glaze on your pot enabling you to load the kiln without scuffing the powdered glaze.

RADOS will also help you to suspend your stains in both slips and glazes and assist when brush decorating by allowing the brush stroke to paint out smoother and further.

Recipe

• Stir 100 grams of powder into 1 litre water ( hot water)
• Leave to slake for 2 hours before using
• Add 20mls of liquid Rados to 1lt of glaze.

This is your liquid stock which can be stored indefinitely without deterioration.

It may thicken over time but is no worry.

Regards
John and Joan