Saturday, April 25, 2009
Fire
So Tom lit the kiln at 9:30 on Friday night. I had my first shift from 12:00 am until 5:00 am. I was pretty stoked with myself--I held the kiln at 250 degrees solid, I mean that needle on the pyrometer didn't move one iota, for two hours. Then I brought up the temperature 100 degrees every hour after that. I'm going back around one o' clock to do my next shift. The kiln will fire for about two days, that means a full day of firing now and probably a full day of firing on Sunday. Then it takes about two days to cool. I probably won't post in the firing time seeing as how I need to turn my sleep schedule inside out, but I'll give head's up on cool down time. Feel free to comment.
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How do you know how much wood to put in to raise the temperature only 100 degrees at a time?
ReplyDeleteI could just see myself making it skyrocket then fall then skyrocket again in a never ending pattern of heat undulations!!!
So are you going to Mauston after it cools (or about Tuesday...?)Nomading around Wisconsin sounds like fun...just remember to come back to gradutate!:)