First glaze firing on my own

[Stephen]

have also had success with re-firing for small defects. Bill and your friend may well be right if trying to do something big. The most common for us is when the glaze missed a spot. The glaze will run though so if say a mug ran just right in first firing then it may be too close to the bottom of mug to refire. Saving a couple bucks in material and ten bucks labor is not worth dealing with a glaze drip on kiln shelf. In addition to making sure no dust on bisque you might also consider firing to cone 5 and adding a 20-30 minute hold and use heat work to get to cone 6. That seemed to clear up a lot of glaze defects when we added this to our routine.

[Chilly]

On 4/9/2020 at 1:36 AM, Babs said:

And non oily hands when glazing

If you, like me, have very dry skin, and need to moisturise often, wear rubber gloves when glazing. 

Does two jobs. 

Protects hands from glaze, and pots from hands.