pat wrote,
"My friend Vicky (Teacher at Uncw) built this kiln with her grad instructor Seo (Teacher at ECU). Seo designed the kiln and altered it from ideas from John Neely train kiln or coffin kiln design. It has two chambers and two burry boxes which is a little different from John's design of only one burry box and one chamber. In my experience coffin kiln's can provide a variety of different surfaces. One can fast fire them or one can slow the flame down and create a lot of reduction if wanted. Vicky's firing schedule was somewhere between 25-27hrs. Right after we got done loading she put fire in the kiln. She put more fire than what I am used to because I have a fear of blowing up the wadding and cone packs. I and others believe that the early part of the firing is when you create most of your fly ash from 100 degrees to 500 degrees some where in there. Now I think this because one, the draft is much slower in the begin allowing for the ash to land on the pots. And when the kiln is hot it seems as if the fly ash is less and has a harder time of sticking to the pots when the draft is greater. Now, the last couple of sentence might be b.s. but this is what I believe. I do know that Vicky's kiln in proportion of firebox and chamber is more firebox than I am used to seeing. I was told by a friend that in general woodkilns should be 1/3 firebox 2/3 chamber, Well insulated, 45 degree angle from fire box to chimney. Now I also thought that Vicky's kiln fired faster to temperature because of the larger firebox. So, I guess there is up and downs to that. So I guess the moral of this story is there are a lot of different kiln, different firing, different surfaces. " -Pat Hutti
My friend Pat Hutti just sent me some pictures of his newest work. He has moved to North Carolina and is working at Coastal Carolina Clay Guild. We met at Eastern Illinois University, but he finished he degree at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville . Being a grad. of SIUE, he is an addict of the wood fire, and so, he is actively seeking out any and all opportunities to participate in wood firings. Currently i do not know the specifics on who's kiln this is but the above are pictures of some of the work that came out of the kiln below. I'll ask Pat for the specifics and update this post, but I just wanted to get this up and show my support. Great job Pat, the work looks get and is ever evolving.
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