Understanding Pottery Chapter 13 Wood Fired Kilns Part 1
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 13: Wood Fired Kilns Part 1.
The next four chapters will be a mini-series on Pottery Kiln Design, Construction and Operation with this episode focused on Wood Fired Kilns. Are you curious about different methods of firing pottery? Interested in participating in a wood firing? Are you thinking about building your own kiln? Wood firing is currently enjoying a renaissance with an increasing number of practitioners and a wide variety of approaches. This month’s discussion is an overview of the wood firing process and various kiln designs.
The next topic in the series is Wood-Fired Kilns Part 2.
Understanding Pottery is a series in production by Washington Street Studios. The video series is a digital textbook that will take you through the entire ceramic process from the raw material through the finished ceramic pieces. There are five sections and twenty-six chapters planned in the series and they are:
Section I: The Pottery Making Sequence
Chapter 1: What is Clay?
Chapter 2: Clay Properties and Drying
Chapter 3: Bisque Firing
Chapter 4: Tips for Successful Glazing
Chapter 5: Pyrometric Cones
Chapter 6: Glaze Firing
Section II: Use of Raw Materials
Chapter 7: Chemistry for Potters
Chapter 8: Glaze Chemistry
Chapter 9: Oxides, Washes, Underglazes and Stains
Chapter 10: Geology for Potters
Chapter 11: Use of Local Materials
Section III: Kilns and Firings
Chapter 12: Atmospheric Firings
Chapter 13: Wood-Fired Kilns
Chapter 14: Gas-Fired Kilns
Chapter 15: Electric Kilns
Chapter 16: Raku Kilns
Section IV: Solving Problems
Chapter 17: Kiln Performance Problems
Chapter 18: Clay Body Defects
Chapter 19: Glaze Defects
Section V: Practical Applications
Chapter 20: Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions
Chapter 21: Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries
Chapter 22: Pottery and Physics
Chapter 23: Pottery Figurin’ (Math)
Chapter 24: Personal Safety with Pottery
Chapter 25: Critiquing Your Own Pottery: Design Principles You Can Use
Chapter 26: Tips for Buying Used Pottery Equipment
Show notes can be found at www.hfclay.com...
The Potters’ Round Table is brought to you by Washington Street Studios, a community pottery studio, gallery, and pottery school located in Harpers Ferry / Bolivar, WV. We exist to provide ceramic artists an affordable, fully equipped studio space for aspiring, emerging and established artists to share their creative energy and knowledge in an environment designed to support the ceramic artist. If you want to learn more about Washington Street Studios, visit our website at www.hfclay.com/.
At Washington Street Studios, we believe the sharing of creative energy and knowledge will improve the quality of our art and increase the appreciation of art within our community. We are striving to create an environment where the arts are shared and appreciated. We want to grow as a family of artists and contribute to our community. This podcast is one of our steps to share our passion for the ceramic arts, creative energy and knowledge with other artists and art lovers.
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I can't believe only 3 people have 👍
And even more unbelievable 1 👎 !
What's not to like ?
I found it a good balance of low key and technical information.
Thanks
Thanks Steve! We appreciate the feedback. Not many viewers provide feedback so we appreciate whatever feedback we get! It would be nice to know what parts are not appreciated, then maybe we could improve. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the entire series!
Thank you Phil for giving back all these wealth of information to the world. God bless you
Phil would be smiling at this comment.
He probably does. His soul is around. And his hard work and sincerity are enough witness for him
This was fantastic , I could listen to this bloke for hours... born to teach bro, learnt SO much, THANKYOU.
Thanks Paul Hart! Fortunately we recorded hours of videos before phil passed away! I hope you enjoy them all.
This was just what I needed before I am building my own kiln
Great! Phil passed away, but he would be pleased. Where are you located, and please send pics with your kiln progress. You can send them to washingtonstreetstudiosinc@gmail.com
Thanks! These stuffs are just so interesting!
Awesome, thanks!
You are welcome.
Thank you! Very informative and it has given me much to ponder 😊
You're welcome
Awesome love this teaching style, thank you.
Phil is awesome!
rest in peace as ı saw in google while searching for your name dear Phil Berneburg (1 agust 2022 ) Thank you for letting us know:)
Thank you.
Lovely. I now know what kind of kiln to build when i inevitably get stuck on a jumgle island.
But to be completely serious, this was great. Super informative and captivating.
Glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy them all!
Amazing, tanks a lot!!!
Glad you like it!
I love this channel. Wish I could talk in real life to people about pottery and pit firing
We are considering holding live streams or webinars in the future. Until then, feel free to ask your questions here.
I'd love that too 😢
Thank you for this lecture/ pod cast. A potter for many years I found this pleasantly informative
Sheila, we are happy you found the lecture useful. Please share the channel with your friends and fellow potters to help build our community!
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I feel attracted to the old techniques but not very workable to fire with wood or coal where I live and so I want to make a gas kiln. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for watching and best of luck with your kiln!
Just some thoughts inspired by your great presentation style. In the Anagama design, I noticed straight line from the mouth to the cheminy through the lined rooms. Why doesn't it take a zigzag line to keep the fire flow turning left and right longer? I even imagined a circle or half circle shape design. In a circle shape the chiminy would be side by side to the mouth. So it will be naturally and costlessly heated.
What do you think?
Thanks
Yousof, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Phil passed away in July of 2021. He would have enjoyed this discussion! Most Anagama kilns, and all downdraft kilns, have the flues low in the floor and the flame will rise in each chamber, then have to go lower to exit the flue. The flames are zig-zagging vertically rather than horizontally. Hope that helps, Dennis.
Hi Dennis. Thanks for your reply. Life and death... Sorry to hear that Mr. Phil passed away. He died but left behind these great work. Keep it going please.
Phil said about the draft that it hasn't a mind of it's own, we still can manage it and force it to go the way we want as long as we understand its behaviour, it wants the shortest way out and we want to keep in it as long as possible. If we are able to force it to go down while it wants up, it is easier to force it to go left and right.
This is a great introduction, thanks for the video! If I wanted to actually build a wood fired kiln, do you have any resources you could suggest? Books or web sites?
Dax, good question. I've forwarded the question to Phil and will post his response. While I have some ideas, Phil is the guy who has built many kilns over the years!
Hi Dax,
Thanks for your email and your question. I have relied more on published articles and books as sources for information because I can check on the credentials of the author, and also because I’m an old guy! There are a number of good references:
The Kiln Book, by Fred Olsen (the classic)
Kiln Building, by Ian Gregory
Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics, by Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet
Building Your Own Kiln, by Hirohito Itabashi, Roppo Tamara, and Naomi Kawabuchi
The Art of Firing, by Nils Lou
Alternative Kilns, by Ian Gregory
Plus, I would highly recommend participating in wood firing before you build a kiln, if possible, to understand how the kiln works and to see both the advantages and disadvantages of any one particular kiln design.
Good luck, Phil
@@WashingtonStreetStudios thank you for this list :)
When people used the word "efficient' I always cringe . If a kiln uses wood inefficiently but my time more efficiently is the kiln efficient. If I have more wood than time then the answer is yes. I have seen very so called efficient wood burning devices that saves fuel but wasted everything else, money, time and enjoyment. Functionality I find is far more important than efficiency as it is a combination of many factors.
Dave, I do understand your sentiment, and I also agree with your sentiment. We cannot, however, overload the terms or they are no longer fit for their purpose. Efficiency, as it relates to kilns, is the ability to reach a temperature with as little fuel as possible. You are describing the effectiveness of the kiln, does it produce consistent results with the characteristics and surfaces we want. Then we answer the question of 'Is the kiln fun to fire?'
Thanks for the comment and keep watching!
I guess efficient in our case is very relative to where your are and what is readily available around. I live in Africa, in non oil producing country. Forget about gas, desil and electricity... these option are out of any logical cost and benefits calculations. I have to cope with wood and coal. This is my efficent option.
Thanks
Hi. How to reduce the smoke
Use gas.
Sorry, bad joke. Atmospheric kilns produce smoke when they go into reduction. There will be smoke. You can fire in an oxidized atmosphere (open up primary air and dampers), and there will be less smoke and no reduction for the pots or glaze.
In reduction there doesnt have to be a lot of smoke. Once the flame is edging out of the peep hole there is reduction. If there is a lot of smoke try reducing the pressure until there is a small flame coming out.
click down thumb by accident! sorry!
No problem, it happens!
So many hours of ‘stuff’ to prolong the actual creation of an object. My advice, build kiln, buy clay and light a fire - THEN watch this to kill time....
Sounds like a plan!
Things are not as easy as you say. Everything has a process and an art to it