Gary Hermanson on thu 19 dec 96
electric seaweed firing
Hi all,
I've had trouble getting consistent colors from my seaweed, sawdust, Cu, Fe
"pseudo pit-firings" because I've been firing in an old run down gas kiln. I
just tried a method Russel Fouts mentioned in a previous thread (thanks to russe
and vince pitelka for all the terra sig and smoke firing ideas and info).
I wet my seaweed and sawdust in iron chloride or copper carbonate, let it dry,
then wrapped it up around my burnished pots with 2 layers of aluminum foil. The
wrapped pots were put into an electric kiln and fired to cone 06. The aluminum f
turned to powder but the pots came out beautifully "pit-fired". Next time I'll
use less copper and iron and fire to a lower temp but it certainly allows me to
concentrate on the salts I'm adding rather than trying to work on both firing
conditions and additives.
count me another satisfied clayart customer
Gary Hermanson
back in sunny San Diego after spending 2 days in cold Oklahoma City.
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