It's Tuesday - I don't know what happened to the last 4 days! We'e been in a clay frenzy, completing work for today's kiln loading. I got another drive out to the river for a little dip which was refreshing. Yesterday was glazing day. All completely dry pieces were brought up, glazed and put on rolling carts in front of the kiln to be loaded today. The firing is a salt firing, at a fairly low temperature, and a lot of chemical stuff from burning coffee grounds, tea leaves, pine needles - which will create wonderful affects on the finished products
THis type of kiln loading is called "tumble loading" - the smallest pieces are piled up on top of each other with wads of clay coated with a little salt and calcium carbonate and the other materials in between them. The glaze is actually slip - wet colored clay, so the pieces don't stick to each otherr when they're fired like they would with an actual glaze. The loading took about 5 hours, with a second kiln for a few very large pieces.
There's also been lots of time to relax between all of the hard work of creating clay instruments
The most important part is creating kiln gods to protect the firing
THis type of kiln loading is called "tumble loading" - the smallest pieces are piled up on top of each other with wads of clay coated with a little salt and calcium carbonate and the other materials in between them. The glaze is actually slip - wet colored clay, so the pieces don't stick to each otherr when they're fired like they would with an actual glaze. The loading took about 5 hours, with a second kiln for a few very large pieces.
There's also been lots of time to relax between all of the hard work of creating clay instruments
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