Monday, July 18, 2011

AMAZING WEEKEND

First a HUGE thank you to Amy Kline and Pottery West for letting us us the facility and having such amazing equipment!
Remember I am in Vegas; most of the weekend was in the mid-90's - it was great! Here is our firing schedule. We held about 4 hours, that should be enough time to develop some great color and give is some good sparkly pots.

WOOD SODA July 15-17 2011


Cone pack





010; 06; 8;9;11
Crew Time upper temp lower temp
notes

July 14/15/16



Marc R



Cleaned Kiln
Danni



CleanedFurniture
John G



Vacuum, kiln wash shelves, wadding
Thom B



Split wood, grind bag wall, wadding
Donna/Brian (son)



Split wood, brought personal chain saw...
Thom\John



Purchased 13 new shelves (last firing purchased 8)

07/16/11



John Thom Beth
2pm – 7:30p


Load (planned 8am start – had to finish prep)






Thom B John Beth Morgan 730 96 96
Start Fire
Thom Beth (Morgan) 830 18 18
Probe wrong
Thom Beth (Morgan) 930


Probe wrong
Thom Beth (Morgan) 1030 245


Thom Beth (Morgan) 1130 300


John Beth (Morgan) 1230 364


John Brian (son) 200 324 356
Probe Died Pulled new probe
John Brian (son) 300 550 390
moving to box
John Brian (son) 400 650 516

John Brian (son) 500 900 690

John Brian (son) 600 1100 812

Thom John Brian (son) 700 1301 1030

Thom John Brian (son) 800 1490 1229

Thom John Brian (son) Donna 900 1775 1500
Reduction
Thom John Brian (son) Donna 930 1600 1400

Thom John Brian (son) Donna 1000 1800 1600
fire box full:coal bed high – open 2 passive (high)
Thom John 1100 1962 1819
switch to pine only
Thom John Marc Mary 1130 2118

stirring ash every 10 to 15
Marc Mary 1200 2100


marc Mary 1225 2150


marc Mary 100 2145

50/50 pine/mahogany
marc Mary 125 2175

bed still high
marc Mary thom 145 2180 2157

marc Mary thom 215 2170 2180
c8 bending middle
marc Mary thom 250 2186 2179
coal bed nice – one passive out
marc Mary thom 315 2180 2150

marc Mary thom 335 2211 2195

marc Mary Thom 420 2208 2200

marc Mary Thom 445 2220 2250
c8 down, c9 starting to bend (bottom/middle)
marc Mary Thom 500 2245 2208

Thom B John 600 2260 2240
c9 bending all over
Thom B John Donna 700 2250 2250
Added soda as sawdust – bury box only





50/50 mix (5lb total) over 3 stokes(flutter damper)
Thom B John Donna 830 2201 2190
high ash bed
Thom B John Donna 930 2250

HOLDING
Thom B John Donna 1030 2267 2226
c11 bending C11 down in middle
Thom B John Donna 1130 2350 2270
HOLDING
Thom B John Donna 1200


Closed – temp dropped to 2100 in 8 minutes






Opening July 21 – 3pm



Note: Firing of Refrigerator with Mr. Alyiss took





took place 6am to 5pm on 7/17











Total wood used 2.5 cords.





Need to look at termites and carpenter bees in pile

Friday, July 15, 2011

WOOD FIRE WEEKEND

Spent the last 14 hours glazing pieces for the Wood Soda Firing at Pottery West.

Glazed the "Bento Boxes" using a combination of flashing slips and glaze. They should be amazing! I decided to try using a latex wax and Aluminum Hydrate on the "lids" for the forms. Off to Aardvard Clay and Supply to teach class....

Monday, July 11, 2011

The photos I keep forgetting to add



Playing with the idea of "Lunch Boxes" -- Would have loved to open my locker at school or work to find one of these dudes with my lunch in it.... Now that they are to this point, firing, should prove to be a wadding nightmare.


The box scooter arrived in....Scooter -- YEAH

Thursday, July 7, 2011

FUN STUFF

first spent a $1.75 to fill the tank on my new ride -- Cruising back and forth to studio on a scooter: Wearing a helmet as the Vegas drivers are NUTS!

Just got an email that my face mug "SPIDEY DUDE" was featured on a new artist blog; http://etsianartists.blogspot.com/2011/07/wonderful-wednesdays.html

Check it out.

Tomorrow I start splitting wood --- who's idea was it to wood fire when its 110 outside; oh it was mine.

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