[TheForge] RE: [Sandbox] In need of a little advice.

[Mike Spencer]

> Also has anyone ever tried a ceramic glaze on a piece of steel?


You need to talk to the jewelry people instead of the ceramic people.
The jewelry guys should know about enameling.  In principle, the same
thing as ceramic glaze, only the formulation, whether by historic
trial and error or modern materials science, has dealt with both the
matter of heterogeneous bonding and with the relative coefficients of
expansion between metals and the glass-type coatings.

Even better than the academic jewelry folks (who are mostly interested
in non-ferrous bases anyhow) would be someone who works at an enamel
kitchenware factory (now, regrettably, a dying product.)

You can also coat metals with enamel using some kind of plasma arc
spray equipment but I don't know any of the details.


- Mike

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