Glazing and Firing Big pottery
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In the last video, I showed a piece of pottery too big to fit in my kiln. Since I was going to have to do a special firing, I made two additional pieces to fire with the first. On one of the pots, I got carried away with attachments, and ended up not being able to fit it all in one firing. I ended up doing two bisque and two glaze firings to complete them.
By wrapping a slab around a tube form and a throwing a pair of "bowls", you can make really large pieces quite easily. The big take away here is to make sure you don't make things bigger than your kiln.
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If you use the water pot as a brandy dispenser, nobody will notice the mistakes.
I just love the technical descriptions as you go thru all facets of your work. Experimenting is what makes handcrafted ceramics so darned interesting, they key is not being afraid to fail. Your thoroughness transcends through each video, and I am always curious to see to what you are up to next. Thanks for sharing you wealth of knowledge and for your viewers taking alot of the guesswork out.
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Very gorgeous.I am gettin to the stage where I like to experiment. You have so much fun. I love your videos. You are saying that your pots didn't make it to full temp, so that kept them kinda matt/ Not a glossy as was expected. Ive had a dish/plate that the glaze on the bottom of the plate was shiny, but the top glaze was matt. Is that because the top glaze didn't reach temp or was it over fired? I know this is a shot in the dark any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. I Love how massive your pieces are.
Bummer about the temperature. You might try light insulating fire brick next time, its many times better at insulating. It's also very easy to cut, it's super soft. Downside is the bricks are crazy expensive, like $5-20 per brick depending on temperature rating. that temmoku and oil spot though looks awesome underfired.
I love your work! Please try use concrete on slips and glazes!
Painting on just regular glaze or is a special paint on glaze!
regular glaze..
Great sense of design. The glaze on the last piece turned out pretty cool. If you do find you need to cut hard brick again I suggest using a diamond wheel, which you can get for an angle grinder for around $12 at Home Depot. For the temp soft brick cut to fit would go a long way. Wrap the lid and exposed brick with refractory blanket should also help but I'd hesitate to wrap the stainless. Maybe a longer soak time. Try firing it the old fashion way using witness cones. I have a very old Cress hobby kiln which takes a full 13 hours to get up to 1020C. Orton cone chart has 05 starting at 1030C, but I've been consistently hitting 05+ at 1020. Sorry, I tend to throw out a lot of ideas... a throw it against the wall and see what sticks philosophy.
What recipe are you using for your white?
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Hi, bummer tall pots setup couldn't make temp. Ring of soft brick should do it. I may be able to help you out with that. I have a dissasembled kiln around here in boxes.
Would it be worth trying a refire, once you have changed whatever necessary to get to the temp?
I'm 50/50 on re-firing pottery. If I got a proper insulated ring to extend the kiln, I probably could. Most likely I would just make another one, so I get the building experience again as well.