well it is suddenly finished! after weeks of prep and a whole week of frantic work and driving, it is all finished. Now we need to wait and contemplate what we have done until friday, when we can see if the labour was worth it.
A quick bit about the firing.
-We started the fire on monday morning at 4:30 am
-small fire for a whole day then a slightly larger one until we were into full on stoking by wed.
-Wed morning we were at about cone 6 in the front and not yet cone 04 in the back
-thurdays' evening / over night we were at cone 11 in the front and 9 in the middle, with six almost down in the back
-by friday at 2 we were at cone eleven in the front and middle and not at 9 yet in the back,so we started side stoking
-friday night we cranked the stoke up a bit and dropped 9 and ten in the back as well as 12 in the front
saturday at 7:30 am we filled the fire box to over full and closed up the kiln and bunged up all the peeps and ports as well as any cracks in the door
we down fired in reduction til I left at 1 pm and were planning on continuing til into the evening
and now we wait.....
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