Brian Dean on sat 23 may 09
Hello:
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience
trying to do a sort of saggar reduction firing in an electric
cone 10 kiln?
I have a new Skutt KM-1027-3 cone 10 electric on
order. I'd love to build a hybrid fast fire gas/wood
kiln but that's not in the cards right now where we
live in the Dallas Texas area.
I was thinking that I might try putting some type of
reduction material in a tightly closed saggar with a
glazed pot and fire it to cone 10. As the material
burns it would eliminate oxygen within the saggar
and I'd guess it would remain absent during the
whole firing.
I know that most gas or wood reduction firings are not
kept in reduction during the full firing. If you were able to
create a reduction environment in a tightly closed saggar
in an electric firing there would be no way that I know
of to put it in reduction at a specific part of the firing,
but it seems that you could have reduction of a sort
using this method.
I'd love to hear anyone's experience with this sort of
a pseudo reduction firing method in an electric kiln.
Perhaps I'm goofy and this won't work, but I'd love
to hear anyone's experience on this subject.
Regards,
Brian Dean
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