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Firing Too Dark/uneven


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I am using a Skutt Manual Kiln (Lo/Med/High Knobs) and this is my second glaze firing on the kiln. The first batch came out where I'm pretty sure I over fired because they all came out brown. Well this time I stopped the kiln (sitter is broken) earlier to see what happens and I noticed that the color of some pots are "ok" while others are still too dark. You can see below and example. In the pic those two bowls are the same glaze color (croc blue/coyote) but the one on the right is just way to dark. I forgot to note what part of the kiln the pots were stationed so I can't rule out uneven elements....although the elements are new. Also, this was done at cone 6. I was wondering if I fired at cone 5 would I get better results...Not sure what to do here as I have little knowledge of kilns and this old manual kiln was all I can afford at the moment..Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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I agree it's a glaze thickness issue.

 

This appears to be a pretty typical floating blue glaze (or blue rutile, or whatever you want to call it).

 

They pretty much always go on brown where their application is thin.

 

And, in my experience, cone six floating blues are very resilient to changes in temperature up or down a cone. They will still come out blue, just with a different visual texture.

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One way to get water out of a glaze is to hang a cloth on the rim with one edge just touching the glaze ... The water will wick up the towel without disturbing your glaze. This works well with slips too.

 

Are you referring to the rim of the glaze bucket, or the rim of the glazed pot? Just clarifying....

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One way to get water out of a glaze is to hang a cloth on the rim with one edge just touching the glaze ... The water will wick up the towel without disturbing your glaze. This works well with slips too.

 

Are you referring to the rim of the glaze bucket, or the rim of the glazed pot? Just clarifying....

 

The rim of the glaze bucket.

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