Glaze firing results, June 2025
Some of the few good pots from this glaze firing…
Category: pottery
Changes to the gas kiln, firing and some disappointments
Instead of having gas hoses attached directly to the burners I changed to copper pipe. I also added a ball shut off valve and two needle valves. While I was at it I also replaced the pressure regulator. The new Weiterlesen…
Latest glaze firing results
Here are some pots from my latest glaze firing. The white glaze is a recipe from digitalfire. I’m still learning how to use it. This time I sieved the glaze because I had some problems with big ragged particles being Weiterlesen…
Experiments to imitate Japanese Bizen pottery, Hidasuki (緋襷)
Hidasuki (緋襷) is a style of Japanese Bizen pottery. As far as I can tell the pots are unglazed and wrapped in rice straw before firing. The straw leaves distinctive red lines on the clay. For my experiments I used Weiterlesen…
Building a gas fired (ceramic fiber) kiln for pottery
Years ago I picked up an old electric kiln for free. The insulation wasn’t bad although the kiln was made in the 1970s by a company called DanKiln from Copenhagen. The kiln was made of insulating firebricks on the inside, Weiterlesen…
Small bonsai pots from a recent firing
Here are some small (around 10 to 25 cm in diameter) bonsai pots that came out of a recent firing. Temperature was cone 5 or about 1200 °C on the pyrometer. The glaze is a commercial glaze that I never Weiterlesen…
Making hexagonal mosaic tiles from clay
This article is about how I made tiles for the top of a small coffee table. Because I wanted to have hexagonal tiles for a honeycomb pattern it made sense to make a custom cutter. My first idea was to Weiterlesen…