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Last year I decided to resume my passion for modeling clay and in particular stoneware and porcelain clay. I decided to specialize in single firing (I had a book taken in Scotland several years earlier). At the moment I'm cooking at 1240°C, non-stop. The cooking lasts 3 hours between 0 and 200°C and then travels at a speed of about 100°C per hour (if I remember correctly: the oven is not mine). I'm doing glazes experiment using wood ash. This idea came from the fact that we use the fireplace and in particular the pellet stove for the winter. Wood ash from the pellet stove is
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I'm a beginner potter and I've tried wood firing pottery outdoors because an electric kiln is not very accessible for me. My small kiln is about a bit bigger than 2'x2'x2' and made from regular red bricks with a regular grill grate halfway to place pottery. As you can probably tell, it has terrible insulation and I can never get it to a high enough temp to fire glazed pottery. I can bisque fire and it works but It never gets hot enough to melt glaze, even the low fire glazes I use. I really don't want to ditch this project because I've already put so much time and material into it -
I am looking for a cone 5/6 wood ash glaze recipe that I can use in an electric kiln. Thank you.
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basic ash on open-bodied medium iron stoneware
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From the album: ian currie test tiles
basic ash on open bodied medium iron stoneware with large particle size, possibly underfired, meant to be cone 10, probably reached cone 8 or 9? -
From the album: ian currie test tiles
basic ash on iron speckled stoneware, underfired, meant to be cone 10, probably cone 6? -
From the album: ian currie test tiles
basic ash on white stoneware, underfired. meant to be cone 10, probably actually cone 6? -
From the album: newer work
The glaze is a silky white over pale blue slip, which breaks through the glaze to give soft delicate shades. The exterior was sprayed lightly with a blue ash glaze, which has gone transparent over the base glaze and run down to the foot in places. The interior is speckled with a blue reminiscent of a robin's egg. -
From the album: newer work
My second favorite piece from the last firing, This was sprayed with a green vitreous slip, and glazed with white satin matte, followed by a spray of blue ash glaze. -
From the album: John Baymore's Clay Work
Thrown; noborigama woodfired; Orton cone 12; granite, ash, and local clay glaze. Private collection in Japan.© John Baymore 2011 - all rights reserved
