Fired yesterday, on my own. Everything going brilliantly, racing along, until it stalled. I was hoping to fire a little faster than last time to keep the temmokus from overheating and running and to keep the dreaded bloat away. So in the end it took 16 hours not the 13 or so I was hoping for. Now it's fingers crossed for happy results. Unloading on Sunday.
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| Beautiful morning light on the kiln. |
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| Loved the wild hair look of the soot behind the stokehole door. |
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| Looking into the kiln from the passive dampers at the back. The horn-like things are Brianna's moose with several handles in between. |
what is temmokus? and how do you keep your camera from melting when photographing the pots inside the hot kiln?
ReplyDeleteHi Caroliine - Temmokus are iron saturated glazes - about 9% of the glaze is iron oxide. In the right conditions iron is very stable but if it is in an oxygen starved atmosphere the iron changes form and becomes a flux which makes the glaze run. Also, it runs if it gets too hot.
ReplyDeleteI took the inside the kiln picture from the back of the kiln through the passive damper in the bottom of the chimney. It's not as fiercely hot there. I used the zoom and the camera was never too close.
PS Tea Dust, Hamada Rust and the plain black are all temmokus.
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