aloha world !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f64J6C48ZSo

new video on you tubed. throwing matcha chawan.

also @bonjiri on twitter !

cheers

unloaded gas kiln loading . nice . long firing tho.

Howdy y'all.......I have been completely stacked with work lately and I can assure you that is the chief cause to my delay in posting new photos, blogs etc.. I really have been running full steam for a couple months now and I am very happy to say that I finally fired my second load of pots. I will be posting photos this weekend and I feel that I learned a great deal from my "virgin firing", for those that know, and I am as optimistic for the future as ever. My kiln owes all of its credit to Rich… Continue

Got the soda kiln loaded yesterday, candled overnight and firing today. I put three pictures of the back, middle and front stacks on my blog at: http://www.shambhalapottery.blogspot.com

I made a lot of changes in the chimney (removed two layers), bag wall (raised and it altered the openings) and flues (reduced them to about 47sq in), so it may be an interesting firing. So far this morning, the temperature, top to bottom in this cross draft are dead even.

Till later,
June

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experience it live, on a one day delay at http://danielbellow.com/ It's hard to blog and fire the kiln at the same time.

Just getting the bisque out this afternoon, with the help of my student Eric Hernandez. You are all welcome to follow the action at http://danielbellow.com. ">Arlynn Nobel from UMass Dartmouth is coming out on Saturday to help with glazing and firing