Kiln Loading HACK! - How to load a kiln
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2019
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In this video we talk about a kiln loading HACK! which is a great way to really pack your bisque kilns FULL!
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When I saw you place the GoPro into the kiln, I was going to joke, "Kiln temps aren't good for a GoPro", and then you nearly did... The fumes would have been terrible!
A couple notes for kiln loading, notice how Jon left a gap between the wares and the walls. This helps prolong the life of the elements. If you put things too close, it redlects the heat back onto the elements, causing them to wear sooner.
Also, it isn't advised to reach into a powered on electric kiln. The elements have over 200 volts and at least 30 amps. You touch one of those, you're dead.
I love hearing this guy talk about ‘colours’. You can feel the humanity! The world needs more artists/ creators!
Keep the videos coming, I enjoy watching all of them.
Hi Jon, I have seen most of your videos thanks for all the knowledge! Not sure if you are into taking video requests but I would like a video on how you finish the bottom of your mugs. I notice most of them are smooth with your logo and a rim on the side. Do you turn them or do they just come off the wheel and you stamp them? Thanks
Can you stack plates in a bisque kiln or will they have a tendecy to warp if you stack them?
Thanks for the video. Can you stack pots that have been under glazed?
Another great informative video Jon. You look so embarrassed about leaving the camera in the kiln, I did have to laugh though. I'd love to see more of you throwing and trimming and getting your pieces finished before bisc firing. Cheers Bob 🇬🇧
So glad you did this video I have been using shelves, so much wasted space. :)
Hey Jon! great video! How do you load a kiln with plates? Glazed plates... I'm trying to maximise space with plates and I am curious to know how you would go about it...
Thanks!! That will save me some electricity!! :) So glad I checked this out.
I’m so excited to be getting my kiln wired .. or should I say she she’d wired for the kiln .. Do you pre bake in oven ?
Awesome!
Cool video. good potter hack
Hi Jon do you buy powder glaze or liquid glaze ?
Bhahahahhaha!! Loved the GoPro looking up at you as it was being rescued. :))))
Where do you put the witness cones?
Haha! I kept thinking I would completely forget about the camera in the kiln, and then you do it
I saw you put your perp holes in .. I didn’t get any with mine .. Where can I get some ? Are they necessary for firing
I love Mayco glazes! I tried Speedball and Amaco, but I have issues with both every time! 😢
from where do I get that kiln please?
And what about air convection?
I fire to 04 bisque, will that still work? LOL You forgot the Go PRo!!! You made my day, I am guilty of similar actions!
Do you know about fire blankets ?
So I just bought a kiln .. no shelves and there is a guy who has 2 shelves 15, and 13 .. My kiln interior is 17 .. Will the shelves work ?
Hi Jon! I have a question for you, I am trying to instal my kiln and I am wondering how important venting the kiln is. Do you have your kilns vented?
Do you mean venting the room, or the kiln itself?
Venting the room will pull out some heat, as well as fumes.
Venting the kiln will provide better glaze results, as it is pulling more oxygen into an oxidation firing.
Hey guys anybody know how many liters his Kiln is?
I had stacked a mug on top of three plates in the bottom blue out of the mug LED blue straight through three plates lol it was terrible
Hi Jon, I've been watching your ceramic classes for a few years now, I've learned so much from you!!! I really appreciate that you keep your videos well edited and fowl language free!
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I knew you were about to make a very big mistake with that go pro when I saw the angle from the kiln. lol. I know very little about pottery. Why bisk first? Is that how you spell it?
bisque! I don't know the ~science~ but basically, clay before firing is pretty fragile, so when it gets bisque fired it becomes a lot stronger, pretty durable, and not nearly as porous. So then you can go in and put a glaze on it and fire it again, and then that firing turns the silicon in the glaze to glass and makes it nice and smooth and pretty and not porous, so it becomes good for holding liquids. Depending on the use of the object and the clay it doesnt *have to be glazed* but for mugs and things like jon makes obviously its different. Hope this helped! This is my very basic understanding of the firing process haha. &of course some people do a single firing, some people do pit firing, raku, salt/soda firings, all sorts of different things and thats all different and idk much about those lol
Bisque firing reduces critical failures in the glaze kiln. For example, if a foreign object (like a bit of plaster from a wedging table) gets embedded in the clay that would cause a piece to explode, it is better to have it blow in the bisque load than to have tiny airborne shards landing on glazed wares and ruining the entire load.
Also, bisque is more durable than greenware. You can store it indefinitely without concern that if it gets wet or bumped it will lost. If you glaze it and then realize before you load the kiln and that you really needed to glaze it in a different color, you can just wash the glaze off and start again. One of the most efficient methods of glazing is by dipping the piece into a bucket of liquid glaze. While you *can* dip greenware, the unfired clay can absorb too much water when you dip and the greenware is super delicate.
Bisque (or biscuit) firing is insurance as much as anything else.
@@Kelly-vo2wu Thanks. I would love to do my own pottery someday which is why I watch Jon, but for now, I'm just learning. It makes sense to do this for mugs and things that will hold liquid.
@@salemwitchchild np! take a class if you can! That's how I learned :)
@@Kelly-vo2wu I would love to but I don't think there are any classes near me. And my life is very busy right now. It's really not the best time to add more on top of my current responsibilities. When I'm in a better place to learn and spend the money for supplies I definitely will.
Omg 9 comments?
Hilarious
@1:30 Just showing off your muscles... i need to lift weights lol.
I’d be too worried my green ware would break. Plus I have more than just mugs so it’d be awkward.
it's not too bad. i have witnessed kiln loads of more than just mugs that are tumble stacked. it just requires you to be good at tetris, kind of. most things if stacked well will not break (unless they're wayyy thin/fragile and/or are under more pressure than appropriate)
You could just skip the bisque and glaze things raw and use less energy.
ive been researching lately on raw glazing and cant find much info on it. Do you need any special glazes for raw glazing?
@@josephbrazda5664 Underglazes only. sometimes clear glaze but still wouldnt recommend. the reason you bisque before glazing is because when you bisque, the clay particles go from being many particles making up the piece to the entire thing becoming a solid, single form. it also makes the clay porous, which allows the piece to absorb and bind with the glaze, which will not happen unless it has been bisqued. In short, glazes won't work properly and may not bind with the clay on a molecular level.
@@josephbrazda5664 check out simon leach. He has lots of info about it.
I paint on underglaze in the green ware stage and then fire to bisque...can I stack underglazed pieces the same way as Jon did for his bisque fire or would the glazes stick to or contaminate each other (i.e. brown glaze getting on blue glaze)?
@@mrpeanut911 you're probably not wrong. however, I have glazed things before bisque (with a raw glaze) and the glaze-fit was great.
@Joseph Brazda as adrianne said, simon leach goes into it pretty in-depth. i think the glaze does need to be engineered to be once-fired and serve as a raw-glaze
It's a "kill".. not a kilm, or kiln.. pronounce it correctly!
why so hyper? its loading a kiln... Casey Neistat style rip off