Bruce Bowers on mon 10 may 10
Hi Folks,
I recently unloaded a kiln full of wood fired pots. I got great flashing
and ash effects in the hottest parts of the kiln at cones 9-11 and likewis=
e
in the lower ash laden cone 7-8 sections.
I use either indigenous clays or very high ball clay content clays that
flash best at about cone 8.
Unfortunately, although the clay is well reduced and flashed, it was loaded
into the back of the kiln and is, therefore, really immature. It probably
went to cone 4.
Any ideas regarding the value of refiring in an electric kiln to cone 8-9.
It will be quite a while before my next wood firing and I have a good
market for pieces like this right now.
Mature stuff can be seen on my web page in a section called "May Firing
2010."
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Bruce Bowers
_www.bowerswoodfireandpics_ (http://www.bowerswoodfireandpics)
gary navarre on mon 10 may 10
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imitations on your assignment. I think you'd need to slow the kiln around q=
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uartz conversion but the rest should be a smooth rise. You might loose some=
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flashing or reduction but it could be worth the chance. If it turns out ne=
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at and the customer still likes it who cares eh! If it don't you can still =
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put it back in the wood kiln when the time arrives.=3D0A=3D0A It's a nice d=
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ut so I better get back to prepping the kiln for a reload and re-fire so st=
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ay in there eh! =3D0A =3D0AGary Navarre=3D0ANavarre Pottery=3D0ANavarre Ent=
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: [Cla=3D
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Lee Love on mon 10 may 10
I refire in gas and soda with good effect. It would be worth a try.
Certainly, you can put them in the woodkiln for a second try too.
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
Doug Trott on tue 11 may 10
Bruce -
I asked this same question back in November I think. I did refire a bunch
of pieces in my electric kiln, with generally good effects. My concern was
that I would "unreduce" pieces that had some reduction, either to clay or t=
o
glaze (I was firing a shino glaze, a shino flashing slip, and bare stonewar=
e
with varying amounts of iron.
I held the electric kiln at cone 10 for a half hour, wanting to be sure all
ash had melted but not wanting to go much past cone 10. The wood kiln had
only reached 1900 degrees likely due to chimney height. Nils later posted
on this topic.
It appeared that I did not lose reduction effects, but all the ash melted,
and I was pleased with the pieces. Of course, I have many more pieces that
did not receive sufficient reduction or ash effects in the wood kiln to be
worth firing in electric, and so those will be refired in wood soon.
Doug
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Bruce Bowers wrote:
> ...
> Any ideas regarding the value of refiring in an electric kiln to cone 8-=
9.
> It will be quite a while before my next wood firing and I have a good
> market for pieces like this right now.
> Mature stuff can be seen on my web page in a section called "May Firing
> 2010."
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> Bruce Bowers
> _www.bowerswoodfireandpics_ (http://www.bowerswoodfireandpics)
>
Lee Love on tue 11 may 10
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Doug Trott wrote:
> Bruce -
>
> I asked this same question back in November I think. =3DA0I did refire a =
bu=3D
nch
> of pieces in my electric kiln, with generally good effects. =3DA0My conce=
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was
> that I would "unreduce" pieces that had some reduction, either to clay or=
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to
> glaze (I was firing a shino glaze, a shino flashing slip, and bare stonew=
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are
> with varying amounts of iron.
>
> I held the electric kiln at cone 10 for a half hour, wanting to be sure a=
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> ash had melted but not wanting to go much past cone 10. =3DA0The wood kil=
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had
> only reached 1900 degrees likely due to chimney height. =3DA0Nils later p=
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ted
> on this topic.
>
> It appeared that I did not lose reduction effects, but all the ash melted=
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,
> and I was pleased with the pieces. =3DA0Of course, I have many more piece=
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that
> did not receive sufficient reduction or ash effects in the wood kiln to b=
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e
> worth firing in electric, and so those will be refired in wood soon.
Could you put those "under reduced" pots in the top of the electic and
then pull them at temp and put them in reduction materials?
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
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