gary navarre on thu 10 apr 08
Hay Folks,
Geezer, hard to believe 6 years ago they just got
done pulling out the IVs and sent me over to the Jim
Gilmore Alcohol Recovery Farm for forty two days of
classes. They kept me an extra ten days cause I hadn't
stopped shakin enough to drive yet. Ya shoulda seen
the way I parked the van when I drove over a block
from the hospital, all coon eyed and dog legged into 2
slots out back. Then two months later I had to move
way up North and live in a drafty old farm house with
a crazy submariner from the '60's and two dozen
different animals for a couple winters before finding
myself building yet another larger version of my
previously successful wood fired Hobagama '86-'90. So
here is some more of the video side of construction in
the later part of 2006 most of which has been posted
in the Fotki site as stills with text explanation...
Having left off with graveling and backfilling we
move on to defining the firebox area with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700SbrITNPQ
Then it became necessary to mix a bunch of dry lag to
get ready to start laying brick. This first mix led to
an easier way later but the process is started here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9OT2Hzxcg
Now what we have been waiting for... what I call the
Bonnie Staffel brick cause of her encouragement after
I got hit with meningitis... the first bricks set at
the base of the stack blessed with Buddhist
prostrations of OM MANI PADMA HUM ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SNbIvOIZw
Sooner than later we need more lag mixed from the
pre-mixed and a non-intensive labor process was found
where the mix is sifted onto a gallon of water and
allowed to soak up over night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgORL5GodI
Another few clips on setting 3 bricks which for some
reason someone gave a rating of one. Is it really that
bad???...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag2x14d9a2A
Well ya, maybe that was boring but now we start
getting into the technical part of sculpting a kiln
with the making of the exit flue transition, mating
the square stack with the parabolic chamber tail...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdwAv_VCkdQ
Then comes figuring out the size of the exit flue in
relation to the cross section of the stack roughly
based on kiln proportions suggested by Leach, Cardew,
and Rhodes, plus my own intuition and experience. The
opening will be just a bit smaller than the 1.67 sq.ft
cross section of the stack and as we have seen in the
real up to date progress over in Fotki the entrance
flue will be larger than both, if my math is correct
5.5 sq.ft. At this stage I also decided to put in a
passive damper hole...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5_0PtianE
That's more of the past, now for closer to now and
the molds I started making with the creepy crawly
molds and another box stove firing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWYMqgog9Q
Hope ya enjoy watching and stay tuned for the rest of
this story.
Stay in there eh!
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
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WILLIAM JAMES on sat 12 apr 08
Thank you for your time and effort. i think i now understand more about bui=
lding.
=20
P.S. i thought only newfie's new how to do this eh?
=20
joe=20
from blackhawk Co. now in riverton WY. for a time
=20
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gary navarre on mon 14 apr 08
Thanks James,
I wasn't sure if anyone came to class cause of the
"ClayArt Survivor" Show squabble about who should
write about what and for how long.
--- WILLIAM JAMES wrote:
> Thank you for your time and effort. i think i now
> understand more about building.
>
> P.S. i thought only newfie's new how to do this eh?
>
> joe
> from blackhawk Co. now in riverton WY. for a time
p.s. Vat da hell is a newfie? OOOps, now I done it
again, probably ended up on someone else's
"auto-delete" list for faigning a foreign accent.
Don't get me wrong eh, I see some of you are serious
about clay and this building stuff. Heck, once I saw
someone had viewed some fotki albums a hundred times
in one visit. That means they are studying something,
even if they don't end up doing what I'm doing at
least you learn how some of this works so you can get
'er done on a shoestring and not much outside
assistance. So stay tuned and stay in there eh!
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
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