I am currently firing in an electric kiln converted into a soda kiln fueled by propane. I fire to cone 10 without a lot of effort. If you can rig a blower or if you have a forced air burner, it will FLY up to cone 10 and beyond. Give it a try :)
You'll have to add borax to the soda ash or bicarb of soda to get it to properly melt at cone 6. You'll find that a lot of the cone 10 flashing slips will work at cone 6.
I'm curious about low-fire soda and if it possible. The studio I have recently joined has this old electric kiln that someone had converted to a fire as a soda kiln, but then left before he had ever fired it. We would be using propane as our fuel so…
At 12:05am on October 14, 2008, Pamela Theis said…
Welcome and Thanks for joining!
Pamela
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What kind of work do you do?
I work in porcelain. My work is wheel thrown and altered slightly. When my work is finished it has about 6 layers of information on the surface through the use of engobes, terra sig, glaze, and the soda as the final layer. I've spent the last year experimenting with soda firing.