This years postcard, credit to Saybra. The only thing I did was make the pots and get in the way of the photos. Well, I made the cabinets too, just ignore that crooked door.
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Here is the almost completed salt kiln. We'll be using a piece of culvert pipe for the stack because we are out of hardbrick. My next few firings will be in this kiln so that I can tweak it and experiment with drip-feed oil.
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The brick-up door. We know how to fit brick. We'll coat it with...I dunno, something.
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This is a small raku kiln that will double as a small cone 10 test kiln. It will have a sprung arch and a swinging door with a stacking space of approx. 12x12x18h. This is a fun little project that can easily be built in a day. Want a small gas kiln to play with but little money? You could build this guy for $5-600 and you could more than likely run it off your standard household sized gas line.
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Finally, just to prove that I've been making some pots here and there.
This is the last teaching week of the semester. I'll be spending a portion of may doing some home renovations, we'll be replacing our windows and we're knocking out a wall, etc. I'm looking to do a first firing of the salt kiln this week, post 300 is the next one up so I'll have to come up with something good for that.
12 comments:
love the card man. good stuff
Your wife does the greatest postcards and she has the coolest name ever! Loving that little raku/test kiln!!
great looking teapots, Brandon. And I do love the little kiln. Do you have plans for it?
Everything looks great. I love pictures of pots in use, especially for advertisement purposes. That small kiln looks interesting. I didn't realize you could make one that small that would fire properly/efficiently.
well, you never know until you fire the thing. i think it will work, i used one like it at the minnetonka center for the arts when i lived in minnesota...it worked ok. i think it will fire well, i don't think it will be very efficient though.
hollis, when i get a chance i'll do up some sketches.
Hey man, have a great sale. Kilns look ace. Can't wait to see what you pull out of that new salt kiln. That little guy looks like the one I built a couple years ago. I went ahead and made 9" walls though. I've only fired it up to 03 but I think it would go higher easily. Still loving my teapot.
The card looks great wish I could get there. best of luck which you will not be needing with such great pots.
I absolutely love that card, just beautiful; have a great sale.
ahh postcard is lovely, and test kiln its the size of my kiln although mines all fibre it fires lovely till the gas tank freezes up...have a great sale would love to be there..
Have a great sale... I'd have to break out of prison, steal a car and drive 2000+ miles to make to the sale... put me down for a maybe!!
Aaahhh pressure, a healthy part of every potters diet.
Best of luck with your show.
Keep me in mind if you do the drawings, Brandon. I'm interested. Good luck with the sale.
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