Wood firing hour 4. We aren’t sure what the temperature is, since the thermocouple isn’t working.


It should be 200 or 300f in the front of the kiln. The goal at this point is to slowly heat everything up at about 50f an hour. We start with the fire outside the kiln. Not too worried about the thermocouple, we’ll fix it once people are awake.

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Finally getting started loading the kiln!

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Late night in the studio, working on this beast and his pals, the barnacle babies. Last night to work!


I saved him for last since I just wasn’t sure about the piece. Ironically enough, this is the time slot of many of my favorite pieces.

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Working on the posture of the little tugowar guys. They’re only 1.5″ long or so. Tiny!

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Roughing out a sequel to my piece “hide and seek”, as a commission. They’re playing tug-a-war!

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