Clennell on mon 3 nov 97
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>hello all
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>I have just fired my 65 cubic foot brick kiln for the 1st time and it was a
>disaster.
Dear Ray: this is a fair size kiln to have a disaster. I think you could
pay for a Oxy probe with the pots you are about to trash.. I have
concluded that I don't know what reduction actually looks like. I use a
AIC Oxy probe and if it says I'm reducing i believe it! sometimes a hairs
movement of the damper can mean the difference between oxidation and
reduction. any one that fires reduction ought to think about owning a
probe. We made our living one year using a rutile blue glaze. This glaze
was a absolute bitch until we got our probe and then it became our old
dependable. I could go to bed at night knowing that the pots in the kiln
were going to be a bank deposit.
A new kiln can be like a new love- hot spots and cold spots. Come to think
of it, that is any kind of love. I hope your love gets hot.
Cheers,
tony
Sheila and Tony Clennell
Gleason Brook Pottery
Box l0, RR#2,
Wiarton, Ontario
NOH 2TO
Canada
Phone # 1 (519) 534-2935
Fax # 1 (519) 534-0602
E-mail clennell@bmts.com
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