Saggar Firing Pottery 

If you put the flow control valve at the tank instead of at the kiln you can stand up and several feet away from the kiln to make adjustments. :-) I adjust mine from a lawn chair with a good cup of coffee. Also means I don’t have to wear a respiratory very much if at all.

Thank you for the video! There seems to be endless opportunities for creative fun with pottery!

These are some of the most beautiful pots I have seen! Thank you for the thorough tutorial 🙏🏻

Just beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing your process.

Such wonderful art. I love your posts.

Thank you so much for this very comprehensive and informative video; and it is so professionally presented too. I intend to try this technique very soon.

Stunning pieces and great instructions

These are amazing! Love it!

Good Morning! I have learned so much from you! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your techniques, which are Awesome 🌝 A labor of love .

Thank you for sharing ,makes me want to do raku again ,beautiful colours

I love this so much! Now I want to try it.

Beautiful. Great video , Thanks for explain the process. I'm just starting to build my raku kiln. Thanks

nice work as usual , bravo Lesley

Never seen or heard of it before but really good teacher and beautiful work

Such stunning work! I aspire to get to this level! Only been making ceramics for a year so have a lot to learn still!

Gracias por compartir el proceso! Muy didáctico e ilustrativo.

Magnifique!! Merci pour ce précieux partage 🤩😍

i love your kiln

Thank you for your nice explanation.  🙏

Beautiful 🦋 Thank you for sharing with us 🦄 Lovely to be with you 👘 You are an inspiration 🧚‍♀️🙏😉💐

Thank you

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this coveted process. Question for ya, it sounds like you are firing at approximately Cone 015. Do you know how higher firing temperatures affect the Saggar process? I fell in love with Cone 10 firing at Uni but that's like double the heat of what you're working on here. Seriously cool beans. Have an amazing day!

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Love it... Awesome

Great video! Thanks from a hobbypotter

Try opening the burner port all the way and using the knob on the propane cylinder to adjust gas flow. On my setup I’m able to make smaller adjustments to flow without having to get close to the kiln

I very much appreciate you sharing your techniques and the effects possible with them, and as much as I dislike when others go full safety nanny, there's a few bits to point out that will keep you and others safe when doing these things. The least scary part: ceramic fiber blankets are made with a high degree of silica which will absolutely go airborne under duress of elevated temperatures. While I applaud your use of the respirator and goggles, unsealed kaolin is still "dangerous" even as it sits with normal exposure in handling and firing; the more you're exposed, the greater the chances accumulate of developing silicosis (basically a build-up of silica bits on and in your lungs). Sealing kaolin fiber with sodium silicate liquid is a very cost effective and safe method to keep it locked in place. You can make it if you like, buy the powder and mix it yourself (with ppe equipment, naturally) or purchase pre-mixed solution, but I normally go with the powder and add water for convenience. Now with the relatively small amounts involved with your pottery, chances are relatively small you'll have a problem, but I'm very timid when iron and aluminum particles come into intimate contact in any substantial quantity. I've dealt with powders of both and done purposefully, so if gases given off during combustion or elevated temperatures of firing are possible, that you might have to read up on. Point of the matter: aluminum and iron _powders_ react rather excitedly (read thermal violence) when exposed to high heat in the form of thermite, a chemical reaction that burns at temperatures upwards of 3300*C/6000*F and is for all intents and purposes, impossible to extinguish with consumer-level equipment. When done purposefully, it's often used to weld railway rails together and takes a significant amount to heat to initiate, but once it touches off, you stand back and let it go while whatever around it goes up in a shower of sparks and copious smoke. I'm not saying stop everything you're doing that involve the two materials. As said, in the amounts you're dealing with there's a relatively slim chance you'll encounter problems, but it is something to consider for the one time the unexpected happens and your kiln turns into an unquenchable volcano.

Dear Lady, it 's very beautiful.

Very beautiful! I need to try it out - i have a question though, will the pots be food safe?

A really really nice VDO about this technique, very well explained.Thank a lot for ... Sorry for my bad English but it isn't my mother langage, I am from Belgium...

The wax you use at the end is a skin irritant - does this mean that when the pots are polished it's still an issue to hold them? Thanks for this amazing process video, btw!

Hermoso!Podrías decirme que esmalte usaste?Gracias.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge! What is the liquid you put on the pot, the yellow one? I'm French talking...

Great video, very nicely done. Could you share a little more about how long you take to get to the target temperature and any temperature steps and hold times that you use?

Hi there it's beautiful what are you doing.a wealth of colors that mix together. I wonder what a hen with chicks would look like? thanks for your video and very nice day

Nice! Does the pot need to be bisque fired before the saggar?

Nice work and beautiful pottery. Here are some tips. Try decorating some using Liquid Salts and Acidic's such as Iodine, Asian Soy Sauce, Raw Lemon or Lime Juice, Sea Water and or Ash & Water mixed with Purple Dye or any colored dye or mixed dyes for that matter.

Pouvez vous m’écrire le nom des matériaux que vous utilisez. Je ne comprends pas beaucoup l’anglais et je ne trouve pas une traduction . Par contre vos explications sont très claires . Merci

Hi. Beautiful! Congrats! I have a doubt... Is the terra sigilatta essencial to the process? I have a lot that far already been "biscuited", but it's porous. Will this effect work on it's surface? Thanks again for sharing.

Beautiful! Once you use a kiln for Sagar, can it be used again for regular Raku?

What type of clay can you use for saggar? Thank you for the video.

Thanks for a great video. Have you tried lacquer/varnish rather than wax? I've started using a spray lacquer, you can use matt, satin or glossy. This way the pot is better protected and easier for your customers to care for the pot.

great vid, so clear/complete. can u put water in these pots?

please can you tell me wich kind of colors you used

Hi, can you tell me what kind of wax do you use for polishing the pie es after burning them? Please

Can you list the 'graduals' you shook onto the pots? I saw sugar. What else?

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Did you slip glaze before you bisque fired?

Bonjour c'est magnifique je voulais savoir si vous pouvez vous en servir comme pot de fleurs et mettre de l'eau dedans une fois fini

what size propane tank do you need?

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Can u tell me what chemical is using by brush

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What kind of clay did you use? And was the Bisque fire to cone 015?

c est quoi saggar, pouvez vous me dire quels produits vous utilisez,

Hi great video can I ask what clay body you use thanks

how did the foil not melt? Aluminum melts at under 700 C doesn't it?

Hi! Do you have an online shop?

Hello! I am amazed at your video. I love doing raku but I was unaware of this technique. I don't know what terrecigolata is, some kind of wax? I couldn't find it on Google, haha. Is there a formula to do it? Thank you so much!!!!

Thank you vert much for this great video. Could you please list the ingrédients you use as I Couldn’t understand as my english is bad. Many Thanks in advance. All the best. Ludovic

Miracle-Gro isn’t pure copper sulphate. I’m just checking if this is correct? Miracle-Gro contains urea, urea phosphate, potassium chloride, boric acid, ammonium phosphate, manganese EDTA and iron EDTA. Is this what we use?

Hermoso!!! Could you please tell me what’s the name of the first chemical you used please?

Is your burner a weed burner?

90°C means kichen oven

What are the materials you used , please?

Pouvez vous me préciser le nom des produits que mettez sur vos pots .merci

Good day! I love your content, very precise in the processes and materials, thank you for giving us your knowledge. Could you tell me how I find in the miracle glow industry? What's his name? Well, thank you! Beautiful work ❣️🇦🇷

Hermoso trabajo, lo tienen en español ???????? me dará

why this video have not English subtitle

E' possibile avere la traduzione in italiano di questi video?

On the topic of turning off the burner, you should always kill the flame at the furthermost point from the source, reason is what we learned in school, is that when the escape velocity of gas is greater then the velocity of combustion, we have a safe environment where most likely nothing wrong can happen. BUT as you turn the wheel to shut down the flame from the bottle itself and NOT at the nozzle, there you have a recipe for disaster, there is still gas inside the tube from the bottle to the nozzle, the escape velocity of gas can now be lower then the velocity of combustion and you can have a little poof in the tube, now if you are at the end of life of bottle there might be lower pressure inside the bottle itself, and the whole thing can explode in your face. ALWAYS TURN OFF THE GAS FROM THE NOZZLE NO MATTER WHAT !! The pressure inside the hose is a layer of safety :)

your videos are excellent and my students are learning a lot from them. but what is a sargar? everyone everywhere calls it Sag - ger as in rhyming with bag. Terra sigilatta has a soft G, not a hard g. it's not a country thing with pronunciation because everywhere calls it terra sij (more like a J sound for it)