Lee love on sun 22 feb 04
stove
The Way Of The Free-Thinking Man was the title of a television program
done about this potter.
This guy does some amazing stuff with a charcoal stove and a hair
dryer. I think you could substitute s simple structure made of brick
to replace the stove. Maybe softbrick. It is truely amazing.
There are over 100 web pages of photos (I stopped counting at 100):
http://www.yorii.or.jp/~nakajima/sub03E.htm
You can use babelfish to translate: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
This page shows how he bisques: http://www.yorii.or.jp/~nakajima/sub09.htm
The documentation of the experiments are awesome, really. In the photos you can see him bisquing 9 tea bowls at a time and the bisque take less than two hours.
If you have trouble viewing these go here: http://potters.blogspot.com/ The first photos are the pots being bisqued on an open grate. the 4th view is the enclosed glaze firing and the last photo is the finished pots.
Lee in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.us "It seems to me what you lose in mystery you gain in awe" -- Francis Crick
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