Jane Murray-Smith on sun 17 jul 05
Did you really mean to say cone 5?.....even 05 is too hot (check out the
archives under 'raku guru' for a thread that covers alot of the problems I
was having). Get some large cones and put them in your kiln the 1st few
times to really know where you are . Each glaze will have an optimum
range... between 1750-1850F.
And getting the pieces into the reducing beds/cans fast is very important.
Don't even bother rakuing on a cold and windy day.
Good luck,
Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dewese Milstead"
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Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:23 AM
>I am relatively new to raku and just built a kiln. It has been fired twice
>and both times everything turned black. A nice black kindof like a
>leopard, but not what I was hoping for. What am I doing wrong? I fired to
>cone 5. Did I not get to temp or did I leave them too long after I opened
>the kiln. Please help.
> Dewese Milstead
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Marcia Selsor on mon 18 jul 05
Dear Dewese,
I am not sure, but it sounds like a heavy build up of carbon which
means you may not have gotten above 500 degrees. Is that possible?
Did you ever see any color in the kiln? OR is your glaze black? Hard
to tell what happened. Can you describe it further?
Marcia Selsor
>
>
>> From: Dewese Milstead
>> Reply-To: Clayart
>> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:23:21 +0000
>>
>> I am relatively new to raku and just built a kiln. It has been
>> fired twice
>> and both times everything turned black. A nice black kindof like a
>> leopard, but not what I was hoping for. What am I doing wrong? I
>> fired to
>> cone 5. Did I not get to temp or did I leave them too long after I
>> opened
>> the kiln. Please help.
>> Dewese Milstead
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