Post #580981 by MadDogMike on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 7:44 AM

On 2011-03-20 00:20, GROG wrote:
The Shriner Bob and Super Carved Bob, can you just touch up the glaze and refire?

Yeah, what he said. Your Bob Bowl is probably not a piece for experimentation, but there is a fireable Duncan product called Patch-A-Tach. You would fill in the hole and fire it, then re-glaze the spot.

One other option is calcined clay and glaze; take some of the clay you used and make it into little chips, let them dry, crush and screen them very fine, put the powder in a fired (but not glazed bowl) and fire it. Mix this fired powder into a paste with some of the glaze you used on the piece and fill the hole, then fire again. Since the powdered clay has been fired, it doesn't shrink, the glaze serves as a binder. You can dab a little glaze over the areas and fire again if you need to. I have used this method more than once to fix cracks.

Good luck Wendy!