Deborah Thuman on sat 10 feb 07
My teacher and I have settled upon using clay flower pots for saggers.
I'll make a plug for the hole in the bottom and I'll use the dish that
goes under the bottom of the pot for a lid. Thanks for all the help and
suggestions.
I'd like to use epsom salt in one of the saggers. However, the
university frowns upon students ruining the kilns. My teacher is
worried that if the epsom salt escapes from the sagger, then it will
coat the kiln the same way kosher salt would. I think that because
epsom salt is a completely different chemical compound, any escaping
vapors wouldn't harm the kiln.
Does any one have any experience with this? Thanks.
Deb
http://debthumansblog.blogspot.com/
Forest Butera on sun 11 feb 07
I have a friend who used a clay flower pot. He fired to cone 5. I don't
know what cone flower pots are, but they apparently are far below cone 5.
He ruined a shelf and nearly ruined his kiln.
Forest
Snail Scott on sun 11 feb 07
At 09:12 AM 2/11/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a friend who used a clay flower pot. He fired to cone 5. I don't
>know what cone flower pots are, but they apparently are far below cone 5.
>He ruined a shelf and nearly ruined his kiln.
Stands to reason that an earthenware pot
would fare badly at stoneware temperatures.
They work dandy at lower temps, though.
-Snail
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