raku or salt kilns

How many of you have raku or salt kilns?
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Stephanie Coleman

i have a cloth portable raku kiln. propane bottle & one burner.

~ and a perfect corner for a salt kiln but nothing built there yet...

see ya

steve

I have both, tho' the Raku Kiln is out on semi permanent loan.
The salt is a one person wood-salt that I can fire on my own without
exhausting myself, about 7 cube setting area.

Steve
Bath
UK


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How many of you have raku or salt kilns?*

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Steve Mills
Bath
UK

I made a fiber raku kiln and just got my burner in the mail Friday. I'll be firing for the first time with my high school ceramic students in about three weeks. Can't wait. I wish I had a salt kiln (love the coloring)
J
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How many of you have raku or salt kilns?
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Stephanie Coleman

i guess the typical fiber raku kiln could also be turned into a salt
kiln?

see ya

steve

What would you do? Just introduce salt at the peak of the firing?

J
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i guess the typical fiber raku kiln could also be turned into a salt
kiln?

see ya

steve

that's what i was thinking. easy enough to try it one day soon...

~ on a friend's kiln!

see ya

steve

Best check about salt and fibre.... Also once a salt kiln ALWAYS a salt
kiln... when you salt glaze you glaze the kiln as well....and then the next
time you heat it up....
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Eddie
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that's what i was thinking. easy enough to try it one day soon...

~ on a friend's kiln!

see ya

steve

I wouldn't do it. The burning of the salt creates a vapor that coats the pottery, like a glaze and also the inside of the kiln. I also don't know how the salt would interact with the fiber. I went to a raku and salku workshop here in Georgia with Rick Berman who I guess is the guru of salku (and I don't get the difference between salt glazing and salku.) We built a kiln out of fire brick and loaded it up (and threw some charcoal in for good measure) and fired it for about 7 hours to cone 10. The we threw about 75 pounds of salt in (future firings wouldn't need as much) and kept firing,....we had test rings in that we checked on from time to time and when we liked the orange peel effect we shut the kiln down and let it cool for 24 hours. The effects were pretty stunning (in a primitive kind of way)...but you'd have to be a potter to appreciate them. Rick told us that the kilns really only last about 15-20 firings...then we suggested he just turn the bricks around, so maybe a few more.

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Stephanie Coleman
University of Phoenix Online

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i guess the typical fiber raku kiln could also be turned into a salt
kiln?

see ya

steve

I knew that salt firingss had a perment effect on the kiln (guess that is why steve suggested the use of a friends kiln)LOL. Is it necassary to reach cone 10 in salt firings or will lower temps work to achieve the effects? I have only participated in one salt firing and that was a cone 11 wood burning kiln. I am thinking of converting an old electric kiln to a small wood burning. I think cone 10 would be hard to reach. At least it would fun to experiment.
Regards,
J
"Stephanie Coleman" wrote in message ...
I wouldn't do it. The burning of the salt creates a vapor that coats the pottery, like a glaze and also the inside of the kiln. I also don't know how the salt would interact with the fiber. I went to a raku and salku workshop here in Georgia with Rick Berman who I guess is the guru of salku (and I don't get the difference between salt glazing and salku.) We built a kiln out of fire brick and loaded it up (and threw some charcoal in for good measure) and fired it for about 7 hours to cone 10. The we threw about 75 pounds of salt in (future firings wouldn't need as much) and kept firing,....we had test rings in that we checked on from time to time and when we liked the orange peel effect we shut the kiln down and let it cool for 24 hours. The effects were pretty stunning (in a primitive kind of way)...but you'd have to be a potter to appreciate them. Rick told us that the kilns really only last about 15-20 firings...then we suggested he just turn the bricks around, so maybe a few more.

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Stephanie Coleman
University of Phoenix Online

alt email:
706.467.9579
wrote in message oups.com...
i guess the typical fiber raku kiln could also be turned into a salt
kiln?

see ya

steve