Spent my Easter eating a delicious Danish Kringle with Ali and then made this doodle.

I am excited, its forbidden in a few ways. One of which is the tube sizes, which are fine tuned for brightness. That big bright white 25mm tube is thin lead glass- and it would take awhile to get it as hot as the 10 mm #blacklight tube, which will be made brighter by being the narrowest, most focused part of the arc.

On a bombarder, that would suck the narrow blacklight in. It is possibly the best combination to be bombarded in terms of glass heat sensitivity- buut I have an oven, so its baking out over night so I can make this the first try guaranteed :).

Hooray for Easter! After Minneapolis, I needed a day to sleep, and I still should send some emails, but I wanted to relax, and I feel recharged, -but there is about to be so much commercial bending.

Yaaay work!

New kiln construction photos. Nubian vault construction.

I wanted to make a business card holder but I didn't like any of the available molds, so I rigged this one up out of kiln posts. I was worried that they'd get stuck inside the glass, but it worked like a charm! #fusedglass #glass #glassart #glassartist #warmglass #businesscard #handmade #kiln #art #craft #iridescent #blackandwhite

I'm firing historical replica #pottery at the #kiln. This is a bisque firing session: I will fire most of the pots again in the #woodkiln and/or with glaze. Which one of these pots do you like best?
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#livinghistory #reenactment #archeology #history

Volcan chez Kattina !
#four #pottery #poterie #kiln #woodkiln #woodfireceramic #ceramics #experimental #experimentalceramixmc

Kiln¹ packed for the first firing since I finished my repairs. I can't find the little firebrick standoffs I had to put a second layer in, so I've nested together everything that fits loosely together. Should be OK. Heating to 150°C to finish drying them, then up to 1k for a bisque firing.

¹ I've been calling it a furnace for ages before I remembered the far cooler "kiln" existed. Killlnnnnnn. Feels nice to say.

Here is a photo of the oven pumping.

Not as much to see here, but it was neat to see the overall color this made shift as it aged in and the mercury worked its way through the rainbow.\

While it takes way longer, and is less efficient, there is no risk of the tube arcing- leading to irreversible tube death. So less exciting is good here :)

You can really see the effect while its on the aging table. The greens and yellow are all on the same tube, but that is just the argon, the brightness is the mercury (mostly its effect on the phosphors).

Gosh those Murano colors are nice. I wanna pull and coat some more tubes.

I probably should leave it in the oven overnight next time. I think the pump wasn't the greatest- it likes to snake like crazy -which looks really cool but is actually a sign of a not great pump.

We shall see how badly and how fast it stains up. I do like looking at the little rainbow doodle.

Making a Stool from Clay https://hackaday.com/2024/11/30/making-a-stool-from-clay/ #homehacks #furniture #chair #stool #clay #kiln #Art #art

Making a Stool from Clay - We’ve seen furniture made out of all sorts of interesting materials here, but clay... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/30/making-a-stool-from-clay/ #homehacks #furniture #chair #stool #clay #kiln #art