First salt firing of our residency, June 9th
team-work for an exciting firing
team-work for an exciting firing
I weighed out and mixed up a batch of shino glaze first. The rest of the morning was spent carefully wadding my pots and glazing the interiors with the shino glaze (thin). Claude and I carefully loaded the salt kiln. Joanne, Jin, Teresa and Sandi contributed pieces and at the end Jim Etzkorn allowed some of his work to go in at the top for…
Slept like a log - must be that glass of wine last night.. no rides available so Brenda and I shared a taxi, $7.50 each. Put the handle on the 4th jugbird. Discussed with Claude Morin (Saskatchewan) some flashing slips from the lovely Phil Rogers Salt Glaze book. He mixed up two, a 'yellow' and a 'red', bless him and I lent him my…