Crass Commercial Announcement

[morgaina]

I don't have a merchant's booth this Coronation.
However, I will have a small ammount of pottery for sale with me.
Please let me know when you are there if you have interest in anything.

(Just waiting for the kiln to finish firing, it's taking longer than I imagined it would, maybe because of the larger size)

Comments

[torfin.livejournal.com]

woot! :) And I still owe you 30$! I will bring more then that just in case ;)

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

It will be fun to see you & Kolfinna there. I'm camping with Daedin at Jarlshof.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Your icon reminded me. You may already know this, but Toby Jugs began to be made in the 18th century and became very popular:
http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/toby.htm

[freewaydiva.livejournal.com]

"Toby Jugs"

::snicker::

Now THERE'S a mental image...

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Again Honey, you leave me speechless. Are you SURE you don't want to immediately drop all your other plans and come to Coronation?

[freewaydiva.livejournal.com]

I am.

But I promise to come to the Moot and say all manner of inappropriate and (hopefully) hilarious things.

As well as repeatedly sing Toby's new theme song...


"Dooooo....Yourrrrrr......jugs hang low, do they wobble to and fro...."

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

*pouting about lack of
freewaydiva at Coronation.
But will see you at Moot or.....September Crown?

[hroar.livejournal.com]

Larger size will do it..I was worried the day when I first fired my big cress,,it thought something was wrong, but it wasnt (took forever!)..jus t took time. (used to the small Vulcan)

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reassurance, still 12 & 1/3 hrs. to cone 4 seems excessive for a new kiln.
How long will it take as it ages and the firing time lengthens?
It was a thing of beauty as it fired though.

[hroar.livejournal.com]

That DOES sound a bit long..of copurse I dont know how big this is..Can you adjust the rmaping up a bit> Thats what I found on my Cress..accellerate the speed a bit?

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

The interior space is 20" x 30" x 27" and is an oval in shape. If I remember correctly that translates to 7 cubic feet.
I had the controller on 'standard' fire rather than 'fast', not wanting a fast fire. But no problem with that. I can undoubtedly ramp it up, ....ahem, after I figure out how to do it.

[hroar.livejournal.com]

Learnign new kilns is an intersting, challenging, and a bit hair raising a thing 8-) Bu tI am sure you will fogire it out and do well.
Big kiln! 8-)

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm still on "fret mode".

[earcmacfithil.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You can definitely fire faster than that. My Olympic's close to that size: 23" wide and 27" deep. If I need extra height, I lay IFB on top and then set the lid on top of them. It's a bit twitchy, but it works.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

This is an oval kiln so it has the "wings" (for lack of the correct geometric term).
If I re-program the controller and still have the ramp slower than I want, I'll look closer at my options.

[earcmacfithil.livejournal.com]

Holy moly! My June woodfiring was shorter than that! But then again, I had part of the roof collapse, which pretty much put the brakes on the whole thing, but I still had cone 10 down in front after 11 hours. I even fired my first oil drum kiln to cone 10 in 2 hours and I routinely fire my small Olympic updraft in 4-6 hours. Even the large gas kiln over at GFU fires in 9-19 hours and it's probably at least twice the size of yours. Although if you're single-firing, that may be different. Then again, almost all my experience with glaze firing has been in fuel-burning kilns. Still, I would expect something closer to 8 hours with a kiln that size.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

"Holy moly! My June woodfiring was shorter than that But then again, I had part of the roof collapse, which pretty much put the brakes on the whole thing"

I first read this as: "My June wedding was shorter than that, but then again I had part of the roof collapse....etc
Sounds like good times.

I think the slow culprit is my studio wiring, which was pieced together, needs re-wiring.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

This firing the pots were pre-bisqued.
Fuel kilns are definitely able to fire faster than electric, assuming the kiln design is efficient.
That being said 4-6 hrs. is firing too fast for me though. I like my glazes to develop slooooow.

[earcmacfithil.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that some glazes do indeed require more time to express certain attributes. Rutile blues are one. Copper reds and purples also seem to develop better with longer firings (so long as I don't overfire and volatilize all the Cu). With others, like clear, temmoku, copper green and cobalt, it doesn't seem to matter--in fact, the ones I use are fireable down to cone 8. On the other hand, my propane bisques have been extremely uneven as far as heat distribution, especially the ones I do in the Veragama (I hook up my Venturi burner for this.). In this case, I might indeed need longer firings in the 6-8 hour range or longer to avoid pinholing.