Gary Ferguson on sat 5 jul 03

In my neck of the woods, Home Depot carries several sizes of metal cans and
buckets. A 30 gallon trash can and one much smaller (10 gallon maybe?).
They also carry metal wash tubs and metal pails (in the cleaning supplies
section). These work well if you are using a sand pit.

I've also seen the metal wash tubs and pails at craft/hobby stores (Macs and
Michaels)

Gary Ferguson
Raku Clay Artist
Nampa, ID 83687
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff"
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: raku reduction chambers


> I just built a raku kiln, I thought finding some good, small covered metal
> buckets would be the easy part. Wrong..
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions of where to find buckets / or what kind
of
> things you use..
>
> Jeff
>
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jeff on sat 5 jul 03

I just built a raku kiln, I thought finding some good, small covered metal
buckets would be the easy part. Wrong..

Does anyone have any suggestions of where to find buckets / or what kind of
things you use..

Jeff

Joyce Lee on sat 5 jul 03

ok
Sent in Behalf OF: Jeff of Quincy

Joyce Lee emailed me,, I had been to the big box stores already, Wal =
Mart, Kmart, Home Depot..none,, just the large metal garbage cans,, =
Joyce suggested the small local hardware store,, sure enough,, they =
didn't have them but were more than willing to order me a couple..
=20

Then trying to explain raku to someone that doesn't do clay is =
something I try to avoid unless I'm going to be there for a couple =
hours..

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One of the HS girls at my church is helping me build the kiln and =
using it as a 4H project, turned out the guy at the hardware store =
studied art / pottery in college, he knew raku,, and was very =
interested.. he's even the judge at the county fair and will be judging =
Amber's project.

=20

He doesn't have access to clay / kiln,, he hit me up to buy some clay =
and do some firing for him..I'm anxious to have another "clay friend" =
not too many of us in quincy.=20

=20

What a small world..

=20

Jeff=20

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-----Original Message-----
From: Natalie Zeitlin [mailto:mszeit@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 2:12 PM
To: jeff62301@ADAMS.NET
Subject: re: raku reduction chambers

=20

Jeff,

I found a bunch of small & medium metal trash cans with lids that are =
great reduction containers at Cost Plus. I think they are nation wide. =
We have several in Houston.=20

=20

Natalie

=20

Message: 14
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:18:02 -0500
From: jeff
Subject: raku reduction chambers

I just built a raku kiln, I thought finding some good, small covered =
metal
buckets would be the easy part. Wrong..

Does anyone have any suggestions of where to find buckets / or what =
kind of
things you use..

Jeff

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Dawn Christensen on sun 6 jul 03

You can also use the heating duct work tubes (like dryer pipe-not the
flexible hose but the silver hard pipe). Caps are available and sometimes
the size of the container can affect the results in raku. They are all
galvanized aluminum but you can get taller, narrower forms than just the small
garbage cans. Home Depot and Menards all carry these. We have a Farm and Fleet
near us, I am not sure they are located all over the country but another good
source is a farming materials and / or auto store. Pans used to drain your oil
in are usually galvanized and work well for platters. Dawn

corey on sun 6 jul 03

You may want to check out any fast lube places your town has. I get 35
gallon lube barrels from a local place in my town. They give them away
as it costs them money to dispose of (I think as hazardous waste) so I
do them a favor at the same time they do me a favor (real symbiotic
like). Cut them down to size or use as is. I paint my containers to
cover the brand name, and because I believe in all arts and crafts (and
especially Raku Pottery) aesthetics are very important.

-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of william
schran
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 6:58 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: raku reduction chambers

Jeff wrote: small covered metal
buckets would be the easy part. Wrong..>

In the past I "appropriated" the small metal trash cans from faculty
offices - until someone noticed the decreasing number.
Couple of years ago I found some metal trash cans at Ikea for about
$10 each. I cut the existing handles near the top of the cans with
bolt cutters and screwed new handles near the bottom. We use them
upside down in a sand pit.
Bill

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