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Surely nowadays is the most popular variant of Raku ceramics in the world, many mistakenly believe it is the traditional one, but as we saw earlier is a fusion of Raku pottery and American culture.

This technique is always full of fascinating special effects of texture data from quibbles smoked and shiny metal, we can summarize the various operations in a few points:

· shaping of the building with a clay with a good resistance to thermal shock.
· biscuit ad una temperatura non troppo elevata (950C°- 1000C°).
· Smaltatura.
· Cottura Raku (1 ora circa).
· Estrazione dal forno.
· Riduzione o affumicatura.
· Raffreddamento in acqua.

a limit if it is considered that the ceramic Raku is the excessive randomness of the result, to avoid the use of this advice glassy coatings easily controlled with a relatively low melting point (900 ° C), industrial enamels and clear many times in this technique is not very convincing, especially if you are short fuses prefer the least toxic substances (alkaline).

Have a balance and raw materials is certainly the most appropriate approach to get a good Raku.

Another problem of this technique are broken due to temperature variations to which the artifact is submitted.

We must always remember that the clay at 573 ° C undergo a reversal of quartz, in fact, lesions of the building is almost always at these temperatures, a fatal mistake is to gradually expose the subject for fear that the 'Cold water can cause breakage, so that would create tensions in the body clay.

Before we turn out more and procure a metal bins for sawdust and a water tank of a size suitable for the artifact to be cooled, it is important to the reduction in smoking or in the shortest time possible so that the temperature of the object does not get too close to the reversal point, the immersion in water should be in a decisive manner, another solution is to leave the artifact inside the chamber without interfering with the reduction of water In many cases, especially for crystalline and craquelle naked raku work, to get the metals are likely the oxidation of the glassy coating.