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A Successful Firing

It was like Christmas in August….  Last night the kiln was finally cool enough that it wouldn’t burn my face off when I peered inside.  It was the first time I had fired my kiln up to cone 6 (about 2232 degrees F) but everything seemed to work like it should.  I started it Sunday afternoon and I stopped it manually at around midnight after almost 8 hours and 2235 degrees.  I would have let it stop on it’s own but the witness cones were already bent and I didn’t want to “overcook” by first load.  But on to more important things, like the results.

I was happy with almost everything.  I used Amaco’s Buff Firing Clay and Warm Brown Stoneware with some of their glazes and a few Coyote glazes that I ordered a few days ago.  So I was mostly just experimenting and finding out what the glazes would do.  Here are a few pictures I took quickly after I pulled everything out of the kiln:

pitchers
tallpieces
shortpieces

bowls1
bowls2
tiles

The only problem was with the small green pitcher.  The Gun Metal Green glaze I used on the outside started flaking off.  It seemed to be okay on the other pieces that I used it on so I don’t know what happened.  All the other glazes look really great.  Some of my favorites were Amaco’s Oil Spot, Blue Rutile, and Seaweed and Coyote’s Goldenrod Shino and Pam’s Blue.

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