Simon, would you mind showing the audience in one of your next videos how you throw those big vessels you got on the background? Also, how do you dispose of shattered/rejected ware?
Struggling to understand how different kilns work, very interested in wood firing but need to grasp the process. Videos like this help tremendously because it's one thing to say how something works, but when things go wrong it's good to hear why and how to fix it! (sorry, it's late and I'm not expressing myself very well). Thanks for sharing, I'd really be interested in seeing a video of you actually fixing the chimney.
Watching one of your videos with one of the cats. One of your cats started drinking out of the clay water. My cat jumps off my lap and runs into the studio and I find her drinking out of my clay water. She steps on the side of the bowl, spraying the water and slurry all over herself. She looks up at me, I look down on her and tell her, "Keep practicing".
I don't know if this helpful but while working in my job as a carpenter I noticed the brick layers using a product called sar set to bond the fire bricks together when they were building the fire box of a fireplace. They would dip the brick into a well watered down sar set so the mortar joint was very small.
Hello Simon, good to see you back. I think you might have an easier time of it if you cut a long dado vertically into the soft brick of the kiln wall to slip the splits ( full width) into rather then trying to cut the harder splits to size. this would also give you more contact area for the cement to adhere to.......?PS i like that oxidized look, been trying to get that for certain pots with no luck yet. did it once the fist time i tried the red iron slip and thought hummm that would look really cool with horus the falcon god scraffittoed into it... but havent been able to do it again yet after three try's sooo more practice(gett'in pretty good at drawing Horus)PPS the bloating is getting me down also......
