[papercreters] Re: Fwd: Can forms withstand daily freeze-thaw cycles?

Hi Judith:

We talked here and via email last year. I have found a good paper source in Santa Fe (two actually) that I can share with you once I've grabbed a few loads and and am sure nobody is going to change their minds about me pulling my trailer onto their sites and raiding their shipping-container-size recycling bins.

Am about 10 minutes off the pavement between Cerrillos and Madrid -- which seems like a long, long ways from Abiqui each time I drive up there. Seems to take 45 minutes longer to get there than it does from Santa Fe proper.

-- ken

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@...> wrote:
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> Yes Spaceman, I do have a vague recollection of that. I have done papercrete in very cold temps with no bad results.
> Ken, where are you in northern NM? I am in Abiquiu, would love to see what you are doing. I am interested in how the waterglass turns out. I am looking for something to seal my roofs.
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> Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
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> More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith
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> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
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> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:46:23 -0600
> Subject: Re: [papercreters] Fwd: Can forms withstand daily freeze-thaw cycles?
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> I remember Abiquiu in late November a few years back, slinging
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> My brother uses dyed sodium silicate on pottery to get a nice
> crackle finish. He coats the outside of the pot and lets it
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> other glazes are applied, this is greenware just off the wheel.
> Based on this I think water glass is probably not very flexible. I
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> fragile top coat would make sense though it may use more of the
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> From: ken winston caine <ken.winston.caine@...>
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> Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: Can forms withstand daily freeze-thaw cycles?
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> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
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> Thanks, Spaceman and Tom. Looks like it's a go. Glad to hear it.
> Wasn't able to work on my project this summer and am getting
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> Hope I get a reply from Charmaine regarding her Water Glass
> mix and experience. Would like to integrate that into the mix
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> Tom: The science was interesting to read. I should get the
> freeze-dry effect, being in northern New Mexico where our
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