Tonight we are in the process of finding out whether our kiln will actually make it up to high fire temperatures. For the first time ever we are attempting to fire to Cone 6. We started the kiln at 5:40 and followed the standard Bob Protocol. If it was a Cone 06 fire the kiln...
Cone 02 Nic had been throwing A LOT of stuff before heading back down to his place in NY so pretty much everything in this fire was his stuff. There were some failures and some stuff which really shouldn’t have done in yet but Nic wanted to force it a little to see what would...
This was a relatively small batch, especially for a bisque firing. Some interesting stuff going on in this one. Everything in this firing except for one piece was done by Nic. We’re also not 100% sure this fired for the full time. We went down to peek in the peep hole at around 4hrs 30...
Most of the contents of this firing are experimental objects. Ceramic objects we’ve found at thrift and dollar stores. There is one piece in here that was a normal bisque painting (blue and yellow bowl to match the soup spoon I had...
Cone 02 Time – 6 hours 20 minutes 6:30 to 12:47. notes: reasonably full. Candled night...
Cones & Kiln Setup The Stuff! Before Firing Firing Notes everything went pretty much as expected. sitter cone was bent properly, and witness cones were as expected. 02 bent over and 04 06 laying flat but still not puddled or blistered. laguna terracotta, and psh terracotta bot fired hard / passed steel scratch test. laguna...
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