DOI Heft:
Nr. 100 (July 1901)
DOI Artikel:Fisher, Alexander: The art of true enamelling upon metal, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0114
Enamelling
have supports or "planches"
for holding the enamelled
metal plate. These may
be made of iron, coated
with chalk, loam, silica, or
rouge; or they may be
of fireclay, coated with the
same substances. It is
better to heat the "planche '
before placing the enamelled
plate upon it ready for the
furnace. The tongs should
be long and firm, with long,
thin, pointed fingers.
When the muffle of the
furnace has reached a
pale orange red, the second
part of the process begins.
It consists in taking firm
hold of the planche, with
the enamelled plate upon placing an enamel vase into the furnace
it, and very gently placing
it into the furnace. Then
observe it carefully, on no account leaving the repeated until the plate is as regular in surface as
furnace at all until the enamel is fused; and when you can get it. If there are still some irregulari-
the enamel shines equally all over, withdraw the ties, you take the plate and, while holding it firmly
planche carefully, and lay it gently on the top of in the left hand under a tap of water, you file it
the furnace or upon some other warm place near with a corundum file, repeatedly washing the plate
at hand. You will now see that the surface of and scrubbing it clean with a hard nail-brush. This
your enamel is very irregular, so you fill up all the will give you an even, unpolished surface. To
hollow parts, and fire again. This process is to be regain a bright surface it is necessary either to put
the plate into the furnace
again and fire it as before,
or else to polish it. This
entails a constant rubbing
—first, with a smooth cor-
undum and water until all
the roughest scratches are
out of the enamel; next,
with pumice-stone and
water until the surface is
much smoother; then with
water-of-ayr stone and water,
when a dull, smooth surface
will appear; then crocus
powder and water, with a
stick and leather ; and,
finally, with rouge, either on
a buff fixed on a lathe, or
by hand with rouge and
chamois leather. This is
a laborious process, but it
usual method of cutting cells with a scooper. observe the produces a result that nO
position of the hands. the left iiand moves the piece on fire ^I^u „„ „J „ j j
the sandbag horizontally against the fixed point of the tool, " _ ° '
which is held rigidly one of the chief charms of
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have supports or "planches"
for holding the enamelled
metal plate. These may
be made of iron, coated
with chalk, loam, silica, or
rouge; or they may be
of fireclay, coated with the
same substances. It is
better to heat the "planche '
before placing the enamelled
plate upon it ready for the
furnace. The tongs should
be long and firm, with long,
thin, pointed fingers.
When the muffle of the
furnace has reached a
pale orange red, the second
part of the process begins.
It consists in taking firm
hold of the planche, with
the enamelled plate upon placing an enamel vase into the furnace
it, and very gently placing
it into the furnace. Then
observe it carefully, on no account leaving the repeated until the plate is as regular in surface as
furnace at all until the enamel is fused; and when you can get it. If there are still some irregulari-
the enamel shines equally all over, withdraw the ties, you take the plate and, while holding it firmly
planche carefully, and lay it gently on the top of in the left hand under a tap of water, you file it
the furnace or upon some other warm place near with a corundum file, repeatedly washing the plate
at hand. You will now see that the surface of and scrubbing it clean with a hard nail-brush. This
your enamel is very irregular, so you fill up all the will give you an even, unpolished surface. To
hollow parts, and fire again. This process is to be regain a bright surface it is necessary either to put
the plate into the furnace
again and fire it as before,
or else to polish it. This
entails a constant rubbing
—first, with a smooth cor-
undum and water until all
the roughest scratches are
out of the enamel; next,
with pumice-stone and
water until the surface is
much smoother; then with
water-of-ayr stone and water,
when a dull, smooth surface
will appear; then crocus
powder and water, with a
stick and leather ; and,
finally, with rouge, either on
a buff fixed on a lathe, or
by hand with rouge and
chamois leather. This is
a laborious process, but it
usual method of cutting cells with a scooper. observe the produces a result that nO
position of the hands. the left iiand moves the piece on fire ^I^u „„ „J „ j j
the sandbag horizontally against the fixed point of the tool, " _ ° '
which is held rigidly one of the chief charms of
95