Had a great sunday doing some raku firing with some of my students from Courtyard Arts.
Pictured below are Di, Kate, Kirsty and Louise fishing for their pots in the smouldering sawdust bin. Click the image for the full album.
Category Archives: Kiln
Good Afternoon
Had a good afternoon at the Studio today. I did some raku firing after quickly making up a new glaze to test. The new kiln lid held up well, and the glaze came out close to what I was looking for, more experiments to follow…
Raku Kiln Lid Part 1
Sadly the lid of the raku kiln I use is reaching the limit of being reparable, it’s really begining to crack, unwind and break up. As much as I enjoy reparing it with bits of kiln wire and cement, it really does need replacing urgently so I have decided to try to build my own. Thanks to James Otter of Potclays for his excellent technical advice.
This is the first stage, laying out the spare kiln bricks I have accumulated and scoring a line marking the circumference of my kiln, its 23.5 inches in diameter or exactly 5 standard kiln brick widths, I’m sure thats not a coincidence.
Next step will be tidying the bricks up a bit before cementing them together with some kiln cement. I’ll try and post my progress as I go along…
Kiln Repair
Our electric kiln was well overdue for some new elements, so we replaced them all ourselves 🙂 you can see the full photo set on Flickr.
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