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Location:: Great Cacapon, WV

What kind of work do you do?: Primarily wood firing focusing on variety of wheel thrown and altered forms

Interests:: Figuring out the intricacies of my wood fired kiln (designed and constructed it) - gardening - genealogy - contemporary bluegrass music - architecture

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At 4:35pm on July 18th, 2008, Megan Crowley said…: I am sorry I missed the opening. I am planning on checking out the show with a DC friend next weekend. Can't wait to see it! Megan

At 10:00pm on May 20th, 2008, Jim Dugan said…: Hey Crawford, want to get more active on this thing, just have to get the hang of it! Megan had to cancel the firing, so I am not sure when we will fire the red horse kiln again, want to get three in before winter hits...let me know when you are firing, I would love to make it out...talk to you soon, jim.

At 11:17pm on April 20th, 2008, Deborah Woods said…: Crawford, thank you so much for the nice compliment. I have not tried wood. I once wanted to go that direction but I began to ask myself if I was really up for the work involved. Also most wood kilns I see are huge. I wonder if it would be possible to have a 30 cu ft. wood kiln. I would absolutely love to try someday though. I briefly thought of using wood for my converted electric kiln for my soda tests, then I became sane again and thought one thing at a time.

At 1:00pm on April 18th, 2008, Emily Murphy said…: I use just over 5 lbs. of soda for a kiln that is 3 shelves deep (12" x 24") and just 1 shelf wide. About 4.5 ft. tall. 2 fireboxes for optimal soda distribution. The Tile 6 slip works best when it's hit pretty directly with soda. If it's in a "light soda" area, it won't flash much. Is that helpful?

At 8:37pm on April 15th, 2008, Courtenay Singer said…: YEP, Los Angeles!! Alex got into UCLA for architecture -- following in your footsteps -- we're moving in August I think. Will miss my DC life!!

At 9:39am on April 15th, 2008, Kyle Carpenter said…: no wax used on these teacups. i do some slip subtraction techniques by finger-wiping and by using hakeme brush made out of cut broom.
this my help....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KAreMyVHI
thanks for the comment!

At 10:41am on April 6th, 2008, William Baker said…: Hey Crawford,
Thanks for the nice words, I was pleased when this one actually came out like I was imagining. My kiln is a catenary arch, crossdraft wood kiln with an internal firebox. Just one moderate sized chamber, probably about 24-30 cubic feet of stacking space at the most. It is a tight little chamber with very little extra space around the shelves and ware. No salt was added, soda only and specifically it was 3 lbs. of soda ash.

My firings have lasted 24 hrs. so far, I would like to cut off a few hours since I'm firing bisque ware, but the amount of ash on the pots is nice.
The plate is bare porcelain on the outside rim, reddish flashing slip on the inside. If you look closely at the left side you see some gray dimpled surface areas, showing some of the carbon trapping that soda likes to do. This was the edge near the firebox which accounts for all of the ash landing in there.

What type of wood kiln have you built?
Will

At 2:24pm on April 5th, 2008, Megan said…: We built a small gas soda/salt kiln. But we are building a big wood fired kiln this fall.

At 12:16am on April 5th, 2008, Megan said…: Hey! No, I'm at Concord University. It's in the southern part of the state, near Bluefield.

What part of the state are you from?

At 10:50pm on April 3rd, 2008, Emily Murphy said…: If you're talking about the platter to the right, the orange is the tile 6 flashing slip. The recipe is in the thread of slip recipes. I soda fire to c.10 in reduction. But I reduce pretty lightly from c.010 onward. Enough so that I can get copper reds to be red, but light enough to keep the flashing colors bright.

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