Falling from heights

Riding high on what I have been doing and then bought down to earth with a crunch as the bisque pieces came out of the kiln, warped as hell.

Tiles can be stacked very differently to ceramics.

Big Lesson.

Glazed some more test pots to be fired with the low temp lead black.

Low fire lead kiln had had a disaster with factory ware and was being cleaned out.

Then followed my disaster as they fired the kiln 100 degrees to hot for the glaze they gave me.

We seem to have had a lot of trouble sorting out the rules of firing. Everyday they seem different. The workers are great but they have no vested interest in what we are doing.

Now we are beginning to fire in seperate kilns not involved in the brick and tile production line. This is more hopeful.

This one loaded this morning is in the glaze lab.

Fingers crossed,

Jxx