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April 10th, 2013
The first bisque firing in the Skutt went well with the exception that the cone (^04) never bent. The pottery looks, feels, and sounds bisque-fired so I'll just chalk this one up to a 'what-the-heck'. thing. I did have one firing in the Duncan that did the same thing and all that pottery turned out okay. The firing lasted 12.21 hours. Nothing blew up. The kiln vent system seemed to work well.
Speaking of "what-the-heck' moments, today's temperature hit the 92 degrees and I kicked on the AC after sweltering in the house yesterday with the kiln going. So much for spring.
Today's studio time was spent throwing a few items - some larger mugs (well, they don't have handles yet) and a vase; cleaning up some things from yesterday, and emptying the kiln. There was also some sewing time for fan pouches.
The flu dregs still have me me captive and while I am blowing my nose less, I am still coughing and was so sleepy by mid-morning that I crashed for a nap.
Terry Tessum surprised me with a call this afternoon. He said that he had been thinking about the mugs that I brought to show him and said that 'potters make the inside of pots' ... meaning that we can trim the outside to make it into what we want, but the inside has be there to start with. I asked him if he could hear the light bulb go off. Sadly, none of the bread baskets that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daecabhir and I made while we were at his studio survived the bisque firing; Terry thinks that he may have forgotten to tell or show us something that he does in the process. I think that that we were more worried about getting the creation technique down-pat than making a final product. (All of the bread baskets that I fired in my bisque firing made it through okay.)
Speaking of "what-the-heck' moments, today's temperature hit the 92 degrees and I kicked on the AC after sweltering in the house yesterday with the kiln going. So much for spring.
Today's studio time was spent throwing a few items - some larger mugs (well, they don't have handles yet) and a vase; cleaning up some things from yesterday, and emptying the kiln. There was also some sewing time for fan pouches.
The flu dregs still have me me captive and while I am blowing my nose less, I am still coughing and was so sleepy by mid-morning that I crashed for a nap.
Terry Tessum surprised me with a call this afternoon. He said that he had been thinking about the mugs that I brought to show him and said that 'potters make the inside of pots' ... meaning that we can trim the outside to make it into what we want, but the inside has be there to start with. I asked him if he could hear the light bulb go off. Sadly, none of the bread baskets that
daecabhir and I made while we were at his studio survived the bisque firing; Terry thinks that he may have forgotten to tell or show us something that he does in the process. I think that that we were more worried about getting the creation technique down-pat than making a final product. (All of the bread baskets that I fired in my bisque firing made it through okay.)