rayaldridge

We're up in the North Country in our little hovel. I'm getting the new studio site ready, putting in a garden, and working on the hovel. There will be no clay until fall, so I'll have to live vicariously through the forum.

Posted a few pictures from my first glaze firing in my new L&L

Did my first glaze firing in my new L&L kiln on Christmas Eve. Turned out very well.

Woohoo, my new L&L kiln arrived, and is it ever pretty. Very well engineered, and packed very carefully. I can't wait to set it up and use it.

Fianlly figured out the problem with my little test kiln. It was kicking the circuit breaker when I turned on the upper element. First I thought it was the circuit breaker, so I changed that. Next time I turned on the upper lelment, shower of sparks. Eventually I traced the problem to the clamping device that connects the element to the switch wire. I'd replaced the original with a replacement from Euclid. Unfortunately the new clamp was an inline clamp rather than the crosswise cla...