It would appear that one Dr. Judith L. Presler decided to begin her summer vacation a little early. The PHIL3060 (Plato) exam and final meeting was scheduled for 3:30 on Thursday, May 12, 2005. At 3:45 it was confirmed that Dr. Presler had decided not to attend, so pretty much leave the exams with the […]
Ramping is the increase of heat inside a kiln. A Ramp Rate is the speed at which this occurs, it is messured in Degrees Farenheight per Hour. to calculate ramp rate: Final Temprature (or estimate) of chamber – Original Temprature of Chamber __________________________________________ Time to Complete (in hours) for example, the kiln completed firing yesterday […]
Yesterday’s firing went great. The kiln declared Cone 04 at 1947° F after firing for 6 hours, 48 minutes. I opened the kiln about 2 hours ago, and unloaded it, nothing broke and I have verified that the pieces will hold water. Has anyone noticed that the last few blog entries have sounded like scientific […]
The first firing of the kiln was concluded at around 7:00am this morning after the kiln reached a holding temprature of 1944 degrees farenheight. That is about 4 degrees above the normal specification for Cone 04, but I guess thats what the kiln’s “intelligent” controller decided was required for reaching the proper saturation in the […]
The kiln is up to over 1700° F and rising. There is now an orange glow coming from beneath the lid. I have never really had the whole pyro spirit until now, this is so awesome! Maybe if im lucky I can get this bitch up to Cone 6 fully and go to a white […]
Cone 022 reached! This is the first formal cone level, from 022 we count backward to 01, then we start and 1 and go to 10. That is assuming that the goal is a Cone 10 firing. My goal currently is Cone 04.
My new kiln has arrived and is already up and running. I took a few pics during the early stages of firing (before any formal cone level has been reached). As you can read from the electornic display, the kiln was at 353° F when I took these pics. For the first firing i’m only […]
A friend sent this to me, decided to share it with the blog. Why did the chicken cross the road? Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference. Freud: The […]
For the first time in several years I now have opened a web hosting account with an outside provider. DreamHost. I opened the account because it was a good deal and thought I could find some usefulness for it, plus Chris and I had been playing with the idea previously. So far nothing has been […]
Now I can fly, but I can’t figure out how to land. I am finding that now that my pot-throwing technique is improving, I am still having difficulty in the area of removing a finished piece from the wheel head. I have considered going back to bat-throwing, but at this time I feel like I […]