Category: Soda Firing

Mid winter and mid summer firings

We are lucky in the UK that the weather is fairly temperate and so the firing season is pretty much all year round. That has not stopped us having to fire in some fairly extreme weather (usually being forced to by a neglected deadline suddenly sneaking up on us…) The first time was in minus… Continue reading Mid winter and mid summer firings

The second firing of the Vulcan Works Wobbler

Callum with kiln

Firing two. It took much longer than planned to get to this point, some work on the kiln was very much required and it meant the whole thing had to come down and be rebuilt. Why? Mostly, I wanted a layer of insulating bricks under the floor (which budget did not stretch to 6 months… Continue reading The second firing of the Vulcan Works Wobbler

Building a cross-caught soda kiln: The Vulcan Works Wobbler

the skin of bricks covering the sanitary ware batts

When I was at Clay College I had costed up the kiln build for little wobbler, and had always imagined that a rebuild of that kiln would be my first soda kiln. The costing was done on the basis of all new refractories, and I started saving up towards that budget as soon as I… Continue reading Building a cross-caught soda kiln: The Vulcan Works Wobbler