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:
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.
Wow that is great! I love the flashing you got. There is nothing like that warm toasty look.
I am lucky enough to have purchased one of these pieces - absolutely beautiful!
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