tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961789.post8878008698676285470..comments2007-11-30T10:45:35.900-06:00Emily Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02405853235523900054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961789.post-46936954832647320832007-11-25T20:30:00.000-06:002007-11-25T20:30:00.000-06:002007-11-25T20:30:00.000-06:00Recently, I came across a man who developed a cone 10 kiln approximately 7 cubic feet that fires from room temperature to cone 10 in as little as 55 minutes. I did not believe it when I heard about it but then witnessed it myself and am now in the process of building three additional kilns. I have been involved (sounds like I'm having an affair) with ceramics since 1971 and always fired the long slow methods that consumed large amounts of gas, then reduced and oxidized. I was amazed with the results of the first firing I witnessed, there were true reds, brilliant colors that one would think came from a low fire kiln, and absolutely no running of glazes. I can be reached at larry@masonrytoolsonline.comLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07534047495151924707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961789.post-31870372402439194712007-10-20T23:44:00.000-05:002007-10-20T23:44:00.000-05:002007-10-20T23:44:00.000-05:00Emily,<BR/>Thanks for your green artice. Another hint I have picked up from my teacher is that of making safe the dregs from glazing. Leave a dish in your washing up area and as excess glaze is wiped off pots or stirrers are rinsed the heavy particles fall to the bottom of the dish . At the end of the day drain off clean water from dish and pour the nasty dregs iinto a sacrificial bisque bowl. Any excess liquid will filter through th e porous surface and by the end of a week or a month you will have a bowl full of dregs which can be gloss fired along with your noral firing. The results may be spectacular or dismal but the glaze can no longer leach into the environment in its new form. Broken pottery buried in soil helps improve the quality of water filtering through the soil as it has small spaces in which healthy microbes can dwell and do their water cleaning thing.<BR/><BR/> jo in melbourneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961789.post-57235068327461380202007-10-18T21:22:00.000-05:002007-10-18T21:22:00.000-05:002007-10-18T21:22:00.000-05:00Dear Emily,<BR/>A very late thanks for listing my blog site on your blog#2 update. I am still getting in the groove on balancing writing about/making/photographing/teaching clay. I really enjoyed this entry about trying to be greener. This is something I am being more conscious about in my own studio.Vicki Gill, potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072210649977355279noreply@blogger.com