I
got my cups out of the bisque kiln this morning. They look nice. They’re not a perfect set, although I’m sure
once they’re out of the glaze kiln they’ll look pretty nice together. I made ten cups, because the first four that
I made didn’t match enough, so I made six more.
Then when they all came out of the kiln they all had pretty much the
same dimensions. So now I have six
extra. I think I can just use them as a
set of ten, maybe. I’ll pick my four
favorites to go on the table setting, and then when my project is over they can
just be their own set. Actually, two of
them are substantially bigger than the rest, so I can have a set of eight and a
separate set of two.
The serving dish that I threw
yesterday wasn’t ready to trim yet today, so I flipped it upside down and put a
little bit of plastic over it. Hopefully
it’ll be good to go tomorrow. I trimmed
the two teacups that I made yesterday, and there are five that look good and
one of them is too big. I’m sure it’ll
be easy to pick the best four of those.
I didn’t actually get to glaze
anything with clear today. I spent all
three of my free blocks working on the blind contour drawings. I drew them on all ten cups, and the platter,
which also came out of the bisque today.
Then I underglazed the platter and five of the cups. Tomorrow I’ll finish underglazing the cups,
and then I need to wax them all. Then I’ll
clear glaze the rest of the work that’s ready, and hopefully I’ll be able to
start loading the kiln. Otherwise I’ll just
spend Friday loading it. It takes way
more time than you’d think to load the kiln.
Everything has fit right, and you need to really economize space. You can pack things in there pretty tight
because nothing moves around in the electric kiln.
It’s cool the way the kiln works;
you put a little cone (it’s called a kiln sitter) in this little space, and it sits
on tow little prongs and it holds up a third little prong, and when it gets hot
enough, the cone melts and the third little prong falls and it shuts the kiln
off. Different cones melt at different
temperatures. Lots of fun.
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