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Category: Technical Articles 2003

By Edmund Massow

Reprinted from the Coburger via the Northern California Enamel Guild

Many people see beautiful work and attribute the results to the material rather than the talent of the artist. So, at the moment a lot of people are enthusiastic about enamels from "Asia" because some well known and outstanding artists use it in their perfect work and in a perfect manner. So I tried to find out whether it makes a difference what enamel brand you use. I made some test tiles with European, Asian, North American and South European enamels. The first are both lead-bearing and the others are both lead-free. The tests were run all under the same conditions. As bases I used copper, flux over copper, fine silver and flux over fine silver. From each brand I used a flux and five different transparent colours. The firing for all samples was about 800°C and all the samples were fired once and until the surface was glossy.

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