42. Pitfire Glazed Pottery - third test

[@melrussell7830]

Brilliant Mikkel. I wanted to do a pit fire in my garden, but didn’t want to big a hole in the lawn 😆 So using a barrel is a great idea. Amazing that the porcelain survived and would love to see it cleaned and waxed 😊

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) In general I have great experience with porcelain. If you fire carefully, the way I do it almost never crack. And the white surface is the perfect canvas for the pitfire colors to shine. I have a couple of pictures of the finished vase on my IG: instagram.com/p/CWNz4BmoIkH/

[@drjones2419]

After watching your video on re-firing pots, I tried again with this same pot but in a gas fired kiln and it worked really well. The colours are darker than they are on pots that have not been glazed inside. I also successfully glazed the inside of a small bottle in a pitfire, protecting the glaze from falling debris by covering the narrow neck with a clay stopper.

[@deMibPottery]

That is good to hear :-)

[@Workuj]

Very interesting Mikkel👍 Thank for sharing. I wish you and your followers a happy new year ✨🎆 Looking forward to visit your studio in 2022😊

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Happy New Year to you too :-)

[@kelliehatton2737]

I love watching your videos! Thank you for being so thorough in your examples and explanations - it’s very helpful for those of us who are just staring out 👍🏻

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you so much. Nice to hear you like it :-)

[@MrSocietygangrape]

love you, enjoy your video's very much, i am learning and you are a source of light, thank you

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you so much. That is very kind of you to say :-)

[@Connor-tv5gu]

Well done!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@Angeliqueceramique]

Awesome 👏 I’d love to see the end result!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. There are a couple of photos of it on my Instragram: instagram.com/p/CWNz4BmoIkH/

[@blindpilot9403]

Congratulation on your success. I am very excited to experiment with this technique. Perhaps I missed the point in previous videos on the subject but I really like to know what type of glazes you used for inside and outside of the pot prior to pit-firing here.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) Any glaze that is formulated for the clay you use can do. It depends on how you want it to look. The pitfire will not, in any case, get so hot that it re-melts the glaze

[@blindpilot9403]

@@deMibPottery Yes, that makes perfect sense. Thank you for the quick reply.

[@miekeopreis5204]

Hello Mikkel, i have seen most of your projects, tips & trics and they are fantastic. I learned a lot. Thanks. A question : at what temperature (celsius) do you bisquefire the pots ? Have you done any saggar firing ?

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) I usually bisquefire at 950 C. I usually only do tin foil saggars. I have only used metal box saggars for small elements (Christmas ornaments) and one time with a pre-glazed pot. I think the tin foil saggar works great.

[@cpetati1]

wonderful!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@judithfarley6990]

Fabulous work🥰 What is flash fire? How's it done? I love your videos. From Judith in New Zealand

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) I have a video about Flash Fire here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5bOe6GslthjapI

[@Shipslaw]

Beautiful! But why the salt and other chemicals in the fire? Even in the tin because it does not touch the vase as it's wrapped in foil.

[@deMibPottery]

In this pitfire was also some vases for refire that was not in tin foil or saggar. Thats why :-) If everything was in saggars the effect of adding the chemicals to the fire would be small - but still, the smoke anf fumes do influencve even the tin foil wrapped pots because during the fire it will break down.

[@lorrainedavis9775]

Amazing thank you for sharing

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you. Glad you enjoy :-)

[@deMibPottery]

You are so welcome

[@drjones2419]

Inspired by this video, and the one on soluble salts, i gave it a try using a biscuited pot made from white stone ware clay, with the inside glazed with a very simple transparent glaze. I took advantage of the village Xmas bonfire which lasted for 24 hours. However, i failed to achieve any colours other than grey, after applying ferric chloride (·3 poured-on applications, allowing it to dry between each), plus areas of cobalt and copper sulphate. I used a tin saggar for the firing, plus sawdust, paper, twigs etc all around and with oak logs underneath and above but the aluminium foil that I wrapped the pot in never disintegrated. Would I be right to assume the pot never became hot enough to develope colours?

[@deMibPottery]

Yes, temperature could be a factor. Also time. Heat-time. But it may also be the clay. I have only tested this with two types of clay myself. Porcelain came out best but is also most sensitive to thermal chocks/cracks

[@wcouch8]

I am at the first 2 minutes of the video. This is going to be good. I am getting my breakfast coffee and enjoy! :-)

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) Hope you enjoy!

[@wcouch8]

@@deMibPottery It turned out beautiful! Congrats and please keep experimenting 🙂

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks - I will :-)

[@KaiserPat]

Worst case, they still look like shit. hahahaha, cracked me up! Love your videos! Greetings from Brazil!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@miekeopreis5204]

with saggar i mean a clay pot in an electric kiln, are there differences with your metal saggarpot in the pitfire ?

[@deMibPottery]

OK. I do not want chemicals and fumes in my electric kiln. It is not good for the stones and heating elements :-) The pitfire is fundamentally different - you have the flames ashes and smoke from the fire