My Summer Building a Kiln…

This summer I’ve spent a lot of my time at Clemson building a new kiln.  It has been a great experience as I learn the skills I will need one day to build a kiln of my own.  The design is a catenary arch with a side firebox opening directly into the kiln, which will hopefully give us some fly ash on the pieces during the firings.  We’ve finally gotten to a point where it actually look like a kiln, so we’re pretty excited to get it all finished and fire it up.

Below are some of the pictures of the arch building process, with more to come soon as we complete it.  Enjoy…

Beginning stages of the main arch.

Back of the Kiln

Completed main arch (first layer)

Working on the firebox arch.

First Layer of Arches Complete

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~ by dhillclay on July 29, 2009.