#13 Building a Wood Fired Pottery Kiln - High Temp Firing
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2023
- After a lot of hard work and planning, I made some time this fall to fire the new train kiln, a pottery kiln fired with wood.
The firing started on a Friday morning with a small camp fire. A temperature of around 250 degrees Fahrenheit was maintained for 8 hours. I then raised the temperature slowly over the next 4 hours to around 600 degrees F and then threw some large logs in the firebox, closed the dampers and air ports and took a 6 hour sleep.
Saturday morning, the temperature was 350 degrees F and I fired the kiln to Cone 9-11 over the next 24 hours. The peak temperature reached was 2350 degrees F.
Overall the kiln was very responsive to my interactions with the dampers and air ports. I had complete control over how fast or slow I could get the temperature to rise.
Very pleased with the pottery that came out of the kiln 5 days later after cooling down slowly.
I'm excited to have this project come out successful and look forward to many more firings!
Thanks for following along.
Jason 
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Thank you very much, again, for the whole series!
Glad you like them!
Hiya Jason! We sat and watched all of these videos back to back. Truly incredible! Really hope you keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see what else you make. I was also curious, where did you get your soft brick and fire brick from? And what program did you use to create the layers I saw in the prints?
Beautiful kiln, music, and enjoyed seeing your pieces that were fired. My wife Nancy and I both got our BFAs in Ceramics at UGA in 1977, moved to Texas where i earned my MFA in Ceramics at UNT. Moved back to Georgia, built a gas stoneware kiln, bought hardbricks for a wood soda kiln that is still stacked ready to use. Taught 30 years, raised two sons and now at 68 i hope to finally build it. Cudos for a job well done.
Thanks! I really enjoyed building the kiln. Let me know if you want a hand building yours. Lol
Damm the kiln is looking NICEEEE!!!!!!!
Thank you for making this video. I’m gathering design ideas and inspiration for a high-fire kiln: This video has as much helpful visual detail (even without narration!) as it does beautiful aesthetic to see and listen to. It’s an absolute joy to watch.
Thanks for the comment! I wanted to make videos of a kiln build that I wish were available when I was designing this kiln. These are complicated beasts, especially if you don't have a lot of experience. I hope to edit a compilation video of the entire build with narration when work slows down, but until then, here's who inspired me:
Marc Lancet's Rocinante kiln- ruclips.net/video/GE2D3UEHTJk/видео.htmlsi=H6cc-A-bkaWjdJL4
Ted Neal on Instagram is the Train Kiln expert. I spent a lot of time counting bricks in his photos trying to reverse engineer his kilns.
Good luck on your own build! The journey has been just as fun as the destination.
@@jquickj thanks so much for Marc Lancet’s link! That’s extraordinarily helpful info. Most of what I’d been able to gather so far on Bourry boxes is from Australian potters like Steve Harrison. Marc’s video gives a lot of context and I really like the grate bars design vs the hobs for fuel support. 👌
I’m also really looking forward to seeing more of your own work, Jason. I can see from your kiln build video series that there are many beautiful, exciting things to come. (I really dig the homesteading topic, and love the plant identification sprinkled in the end of several videos, too.) Cheers, - J
I like the kiln you built very much, can you share the design drawings? I want to build the same kiln. I'm in Jingdezhen, China.
すばらしいプロジェクトでした。いいものを見せてくれてありがとう。
今後もよい焼き物を作ってください。
Lovely!
Did I see some bonsai pots in there? Now to look at the entire series… congrats on the successful firing!
Indeed you did. Thanks for watching!
Really enjoying your channel! Might I ask where you’re located? I’m getting back into making pots after almost 7 years of not making, I miss it so much it’s starting to hurt. I did lots of soda, salt and wood firing when earning my MFA. The electric process just doesn’t hit the same!
Really chilled out video, love the composition. What a beautiful kiln! So glad for you that all your hard work has paid off. P. S.40+ hours! What a slog 😅
Thanks so much!
Invite you to Jingdezhen, China, where there are many ways to make it.
Thank you for your interest. Looks like Jingdezhen is a beautiful place, especially 景德镇陶瓷大学 . I included enough video footage in this series, where a person could count the bricks layer by layer to reverse engineer the kiln. This is how I came up with the design myself. Good luck.
Hi Jason, really useful videos. In the thermal imaging you did during the firing - what temperature did you get on the outside face of the brickwork during the firing?
I think you should have made the roof HIGHER...lol
Agreed! I am thinking about hanging a heat shield during the next firing. The flames shot way higher than I anticipated.
This was a Beautiful Composition and it inspires me to make my own. Out of curiosity though, how much wood did you end up using?
Thanks! I burned less than I was expecting to. Probably somewhere around 1 full cord (130cu. ft. or 3700 liters). After I reached 2100 degrees F, I held the kiln at that temp for 8 hours to build up ash and then pushed the temp to drop the cones.
how meany cubic foot of firing space in this butaful kiln ?
The ware chamber is about 55 cubic feet. Thanks!
@@jquickj and you fired it solo in 2 days thats cool