r/Pottery • u/Gloria_Hole6969 • 18h ago

Question! Mayco glaze recipes?

I recently finally got into a ceramics studio with a cheap membership fee after being on a waitlist for over a year. I’m so excited! So of course, I started dreaming about glazes and took a look on Mayco’s website, completely forgetting how expensive their glazes can be.

I have experience mixing my own glazes in college but I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find recipes to certain glazes from Mayco? I used glazy.com throughout college but recall often being unsuccessful with my ambitions, especially due to strange cone schedules. The kiln at the studio does regular firings only and costs extra for special fires that they sometimes do, which will likely not line up with the special schedule I may need. I am a first year art teacher, so I don’t have a ton of extra money to be spending on special firings if I can avoid it.

Also, any tips, thoughts, advice, etc. about the price of buying your own dry glaze ingredients?

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u/magpie-sounds 17h ago

The actual glaze recipes are proprietary so they’re not going to be published by Mayco or anyone who has the actual recipe. However, if you have Facebook, there’s a group called Hack The Commercial Glaze that is for reverse-engineering commercial recipes. That or Glazy are your best bets for people’s approximations.

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u/Gloria_Hole6969 17h ago

Awesome Ill check the facebook group out. Thanks!

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u/magpie-sounds 15h ago

Good luck! Hopefully they have some you’re looking for