Description
Introducing Dark Star! If you like speckles in your clay but are looking for a body that keeps your glazes brighter, check out this new clay body. Based off of our very popular Ice Man clay body, Dark Star is easy to throw and handbuild with and is very forgiving, smooth, and plastic. Matures cone 5-6. Can be pushed to cone 7 slow fired. Shrinkage 11.5% Absorption at ^6 1.7% WE ALWAYS, ALWAYS RECOMMEND SLOW FIRING SPEEDS IN BOTH BISQUE AND GLAZE WHEN USING ANY CLAY BODY THAT CONTAINS MANGANESE SPECKS DUE TO OFF GASSING. This allows the gasses time to escape properly from the ware.
As of 9/10/2023: Dark Star has a slightly altered formula to accommodate a material change. We recommend firing Dark Star about a half cone cooler than you may have in the past. We recommend firing no hotter than a soft Cone 6. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes, but this material change was out of our control. You should always test your materials before putting them into production.
