Nov. 5th is the next wood firing. Here are pictures from the one this spring:
Loaded and ready to go:
Some of the wood:
The firing begins:
Here we were losing too much heat out of the chimney, but it looked really cool:
The lintel above the stoke hole stuck out a bit, making it impossible to completely cover the stoke hole:
The view from above (note the glowing through the lid (it is TWO high temperature silicone carbide kiln shelves thick!):
We only had about five pieces blow up, but they were big ones (all greenware):
The best looking of the survivors (some were greenware):