Whew! We’ve unloaded the kiln and boy are there some fine results. Most importantly, lots of great learnings and direction for mixing up larger batches of glaze for future work (and NOTHING ran!!!). I’ll post a much longer report of the glazes I used and my results but for now, here’s one of my favorite glaze combos (variegated blue over licorice black):
Here is the top of the loaded glaze kiln pre firing:
And for the “after”, as well as blog history, here is the momentous opening of the kiln:
P.S. There is ONE difference between the pre and post top shelves (other than the firing of course!). Can you find it???
Jul 1, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Amazing… So beautiful! Fran
Jul 1, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Jul 1, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Lovely! The difference is the cones are bent over.
I look forward to visiting your shop and bringing home a treasure on my next yearly trip to Rincon!
Jul 1, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Thanks Mary. Looking forward to meeting you during your next visit.
Jul 1, 2009 at 6:10 pm
The cones are over, but before firing you turned them 180 degrees, HA!
Jul 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Ding ding ding!
I realized how I had placed the cones before I started the firing and like to keep my “2 o’clock” reading traditional so I turned the cone pack around. No need to add complication when viewing cones through peepholes now is there?
Jul 1, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Gary beat me to it, very nice glazes and no runs, congratulations.
Jul 2, 2009 at 6:53 am
Thanks Linda! I’m now quite excited to mix up large quantities of some of the glazes and start the process all over again!
Jul 3, 2009 at 10:26 am
beautiful bowl/plate in the first pic, you must be very excited and it looks like there’s a lot of information to evaluate. i know gary ruined it by noticing first but i saw it… i swear i did
Jul 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm
You, um, wouldn’t want to share that black glaze recipe would ya? garyrith at yahoo dot com
