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what to do with my new firebricks.....identifying all the odd ones

updated tue 30 may 06

 

Claudia MacPhee on mon 29 may 06




Thanks again for all the helpful answers to my questions. Went in today and brought a truckful home. Well, as many as I could get into my little S10. Stacked a bunch more on a pallet. Uncovered some odd ones. AP Green Empires, actually lots of those. The red ones are smaller, indented on one side with (looks like)  I-XL on them. Also found one that said Maximul(??). Who knows what more weirdies there are in that pile. Also there are a heck of a lot more there than the 1,000 I thought were there.

   The ones I brought home I stacked on a pallet out in the sun to dry out. Actually we live in an extremely dry clime, lots of times in the summer the RH gets to 10 or less (can you tell I used to do the weather for the forest fire index?). Once they get all dried out will cover them up.I am still bouncing off the wall so excited about getting these guys. Must be the stars are lined up for me, today I also scored a beater RSF extra large woodstove to do my pit-fired pots in, just a trade for a pot and some fishing flies. Then to top it off saw a sow black bear with three little cubs on the way home.

   Now off to Google to look up more wood kiln stuff.  Claudia MacPhee, Tagish, Yukon


Hank Murrow on mon 29 may 06


On May 29, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Claudia MacPhee wrote:

> Thanks again for all the helpful answers to my questions.
> Now off to Google to look up more wood kiln stuff.=A0

Dear Claudia;

I highly recommend Steve Harrison's book, "Laid Back Woodfiring". His=20
version of the bourry box is a good way to go for the lone potter. Also=20=

recommend Lee Love's design, which I will get to help fire this June in=20=

Mashiko, Japan. Steve's books will come in about a week from down=20
under, and are a bargain, given the level of experience and expertise=20
rendered clearly and unambiguously in these self-published volumes.

Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank