Thursday, October 13, 2005

First Wood Firing in MY Wood Kiln!

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):

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