Kilnin' Myshelf

[StoneCloud]

SO HAPPY and STOKED To see this man!! Seriously, congrats playa haha!!

2 Kilns!?! I can't wait to see what you will make!!!

Already thinking about what I may ask you to conjure up for me!

 

[sorce]

How are you glazing? method, technique?

Waxing the bottoms and brushing.
Mostly just following the directions, 2-3 coats...

Some of my daughters pots to the right there!
That Lil one is raw!




Getting this thing to fire evenly and slowly all the way to cone 6 is going to be rough.

YTSGW!

Sorce

 

[garywood]

Waxing the bottoms and brushing.
Mostly just following the directions, 2-3 coats...

Some of my daughters pots to the right there!
That Lil one is raw!
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Getting this thing to fire evenly and slowly all the way to cone 6 is going to be rough.

YTSGW!

Sorce

Sorceman, take notes on application. Brushing is probably the most difficult method to apply evenly. So, learn from this firing. Get a magnifying glass and study good and bad spots and compare, to your notes.ie, heavy loaded brush or multi-strokes with light load or any variable you think of. Think consistency, consistency, consistency! Once you get farther along on the learning curve making repeatable outcomes is the goal.

 

[sorce]

Thanks @garywood !

Tonight I loaded it a little tighter...
With some stuff a little shy of bone dry so I ...

Notes...
Lid on high prop, peepholes open.
Starting somewhere around 4pm, I crawled the switches on going up about every 10 minutes, when I got to the 3rd up I turned off the bottom one...4 th up on second up off, etc ...then kinda random
I kept reading it around 200F and hovered for a while to water smoke.
When the steam stopped thouroughly I started the same as before.
Lid on low prop peepholes open for an hour start 5pm , second switch hour two.6pm
After 2 hours close the lid and bottom peephole.
3 switch hour 7pm
4 switch hour 8pm
5 switch 9pm and my

05 cone dropped the sitter at about 10:50.

So the bottom should be
06.

Maybe see in the morning...
Surely tomorrw afternoon!

Sorce

 

[Pachycaul]

@sorce - man, you got the infectious enthusiasm I mos' needs! Got my used copy of "Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques" today, and discovered a piece by one of my ceramics instructors @ U of NM over 30 years ago. Where did the time go? Oh, yeah, must've missed it. Never mind. Much mo' bettah now. Anyway, thanks for your creative spirit and sharing it wit' da 'nutters! Wedge on!!

 

[sorce]

What day is it?

Gangster shit happens on Thursday!

GSH tomorro too!

GSH.....when you let it!

That is awesome about that pot in the book....

Sure does mean what it means!

Sorce

 

[discusmike]

Your not fu###### around! Pump them pots out!

 

[discusmike]

Whats the trick to make sure your pit drains well?? Do you leave the inside totally flat? Or is there fall to the drainage holes?

 

[sorce]

Whats the trick to make sure your pit drains well?? Do you leave the inside totally flat? Or is there fall to the drainage holes?

Always thinking about...

Whats the trick to make sure your pit drains well?? Do you leave the inside totally flat? Or is there fall to the drainage holes?

EVERY time I think

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No disrespect to the potter, but I might end up blowin' a drainage hole right thru the chop! Yikes!
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Attempting perfection.

For high tie down psi and heavy handed cicle work. Good drainage.et

Sorce

 

[Anthony]

Sorce,

you can simply add more drainage holes. No need to interfere with the bottom of
the pot.


This is a 08 vitreous body [ why waste so much energy for cone 8 ]
glazed with a commercial glaze called - stonewash.
The pot has 5 drainage holes about this big [------------- ]
Malpighia e.
Good Day
Anthony

Pot is about 25 or so years old and still going strong.

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

looking forward to see the results.

 

[sorce]

Surely tomorrw afternoon!

Bloody hell!

Maybe not!

Still 220F in the top!
Already lower at the bottom.

How sweet is that!

With an even more densely packed glaze load...
I can turn the switches back off from top down to evenly distributed what is seeming to be a right slow ass cool!

Thursday Fershursday!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Minus a few child projects.

29 total....

So far so good.

This oval is the largest flattest yet at 12" ....the Ghost Oval from the avatar.
Frigging happy this came out well!



This is the tallest one yet.

The creepiest bisque pot.


The only creepier one is so bad I've decided to gift it to @Soldano666 ....it is fully cursed and needs proper looking after.

More....

 

[sorce]

Biggest rectangle at 11in.
Whew!

The new brown clay looking eeeew at 06.



These are compliments of @my nellie ....

The Rain and Wane Rectangle series!



One of them "Sorce" Pots.

Lip Service Series.


And this little feller I like too!


Them little ones are part of the "Went home" series.
You know....go huge or....

I went home with these ones.

Sorce

 

[Soldano666]

That creepy round tho.... Killer

 

[Vance Wood]

Very nice and unique without being grotesque.

 

[Ingvill]

Loving what you have managed to create so far Sorce, well done indeed

 

[justBonsai]

Damn Sorce, when you become a professional ceramicist put me on your order list.

 

[Anthony]

The critique, Sorce ---------

your finishing has to become more professional.
The tops need to be level and crisp.
Look at the Chinese and Japanese work more closely.

The Praise -

very well done. Glad to see there were no ka booms in the kiln.

Were they supposed to be at cone 6 or so --------- vitreous ?

Did you use o6 glazes ?

Very happy to see you as the Sorcerous Potter.
[ He took clay and in breathing on it ............. brought forth homes for young trees ]
Good Day
Anthony

 

[Cadillactaste]

You sound all professional @sorce! Looking FANTASTIC! Very proud of your new venture...your pots looks great for just starting out. Mine...would have the look of a preschoolers gift to their mom.