Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: kiln firing

So it’s been a very busy couple of days. Glazing. Wadding… Glazing. Wadding…
And then I took my studio cart down to the first floor kiln room. Huge thanks to whoever fixed the freight elevator. When I checked Tuesday evening, the freight elevator was “out of order.” And I was NOT looking forward to carrying everything downstairs by hand. Luckily… the elevator got me (and my cart) downstairs in one piece.

And so I started loading the kiln.
Kind of exciting as this is my first firing in the new Lillstreet soda kiln. Not that it’s any different really

Once the back stack was loaded, I started on the front. It always fills up faster than I think it should. I start out thinking there is SO much space to fill. Hoping that I have enough work to fill it. But then all of a sudden, it fills up fast. Luckily, this time I got EVERYTHING that I had glazed & wadded into the kiln.

 

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