Thanks Hamish and Robin
It’s always nice to learn that your efforts have been appreciated so we thought we would publish this email that we have just received.
In early summer, my 13 year old son decided to choose Raku pottery as the subject of his major school project. As my wife was an active potter in her younger years, the pottery & glaze aspects were well covered. Building a kiln was the only problem. After an extensive internet search, I decided to use your plans from internet for our kilnn. I must congratulate you on your very clear and easy to implement plans. In a couple of weeks I had a kiln, which as it turned out, was fully functional & works very well! We have also found that a firing up to 1000°C takes between 20 & 25 minutes using a simple comercial burner & manometer. It’s also great fun for both my son and I!! We have now done 8 firings with results between acceptable & very good. What we have’nt really learned yet is to influence the degree of crackling. Upon reading your web site again I noticed that you leave the pots in the reduction chamber for up to 20 minutes! Maybe this is the reason why we sometimes get a great crackling effect and sometimes none at all. Can you perhaps give me any tips on this? Thanks for your delightfully clear plans & very interesting web site!
Hamish and Robin (13)
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