My friend Rob Harvey gave me a supply of wood ash from his wood stove. It has to be sieved through a series of screens to remove the large junks and make sure it is well mixed. The resulting ash is combined with a clay to make a glaze.
The shelves have all been cleaned and coated with a "wash" that helps prevent any glazes that drip from becoming a permanent part of the shelves.
For the bigger pots, the glaze is sprayed on.
Here are a few of the smaller pots waiting to be loaded.
More to come soon.
Nice! I've been holed up in the studio at long last and am making a lot of progress.
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I have 12 x 24 Nitride Bonded Silicon Carbide Kiln Shelves. The set area is designed to be 24 x 24 so I use two side by side. They make a 24 x 24 shelf, but the are bears to lift in and out of the kiln. What I would really like is the Advancer shelves that are super light and super strong - trouble is that they are 3 to 4 times as expensive.
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