A lot of great results, great work everyone!
There are what appear to be some dinosaur skeleton bones (or similar) that I didn’t load last time but left a note that they needed to be stilted. I went ahead and stilted them for this firing. One of the pieces apparently shifted slightly while loading and unfortunately fused to the stilt base, some of the others are fused to the metal tines on the stilt where the glaze was either thick or pooled in the texture. I didn’t want to break them so I’ll leave it to you to attempt removal.
There is a small platter with a decent chunk of kiln wash on it. It should be possible to grind it off and we can re-fire if necessary.
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Notes:
*medium speed, Approx 10.5 hr to complete, 12 min hold
*middle stacks weren’t as tight this time (fewer plates) - this is likely why it fired quicker
*7 inch supports were used for the area by the pyrometer similar to last time to accommodate larger pieces and to leave plenty of clearance
*6 inch supports off first shelf to ensure good exposure to bottom elements
*did NOT experiment with drop and hold
Results:
*consistent results throughout the kiln
*Some minor pinholes on the mugs but these are a speckled clay body which may be contributing to this - otherwise seemed pretty clean
*good vibrant colors
*keeping the middle a littler looser and an overall less dense load seemed to produce more consistent results, there are several plates with the next load so we’ll see if the hypothesis is true (or I may use a different loading strategy)
Ideas:
*still curious about a drop and hold but I’ll probably run with this schedule for a while since it seems to be working pretty well
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