Monday, April 18, 2011

April 2011 Wood Firing

As many of you may have read here earlier, we built a wood kiln last summer that until just recently had not yet been fired. Last week, we finally got that first firing in and this past weekend it was unloaded. All told, there were five different clay bodies and 11 glazes. This is a more photos, less words post, so... without further word clutter. Here are the pics.
Kiln loaded ready to brick up and fire


Building ash in the ash pit





Kiln in a reduction atmosphere

We reached just over 2300 degrees with cone 11 down on the top of kiln, cone 10 bent on the bottom


Post firing, ready to be unloaded

Kiln load of about 150 pieces unloaded and ready for inspection


A few of my favorite pieces

3 comments:

jessie said...

I'm glad that everything went so well with your first firing! I really, really like the piece in the last picture with the stripes.

Denise said...

Wow that is great! I love the flashing you got. There is nothing like that warm toasty look.

Linda said...

I am lucky enough to have purchased one of these pieces - absolutely beautiful!