147. What is Pitfire - and How do you Pitfire Pottery?

[@MargotRemie]

Great video! I love your Pitfire enthusiasm, your daring experiments and the way you share everything: succes, ‘failure’, technical information and your opinions. Keep up the good work. Thank you very much!

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you! Will do! :-)

[@karineisler980]

Dear Mikkel! I just discovered your channel a few days ago. I wanna thank you for your very informative and interesting tutorials and your refreshing behaviour. 🙂

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you so much :-)

[@David-uv7hz]

I look forward to your videos every Sunday evening! Lovely end to the week. Another lovely video packed with useful information. Thank you for sharing.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks a mot. So nice to hear ❤️🙏

[@morningcoffeepottery5416]

I was just reading about liquid quartz yesterday! Another great video, as always, thank you Mikkel. I look forward to these every Sunday!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) Glad you like them!

[@triciac1019]

Wow, you covered so much and answered so many questions I had and some I didn't know I needed to think about. You are such a good and thorough teacher. Pit firing seemed daunting to me and I have learned the most from you because you go into so much detail. I so appreciate you having terms and products in writing also as some of them I was not familiar with. Your pots are always so beautiful, and your pitfiring colors and patterns are amazing. I don't know if I could ever sell or give away any of those. Thank you so luch for this video and sharing your talents. I have to see if I can actually do pit firing where I live. I think its a possibility.

[@deMibPottery]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@sakshimathuria1527]

Hello, thanks for sharing such great tips for pit firing... The pots I intend to fire a quiet big and heavy, will that work, the thickness of the big pots?

[@faraheleinbaltasarculebro5783]

You are a great teacher! Thanks a lot for your work! ❤

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks a lot ❤️🙏

[@PaulByrne-ev2zm]

Another great presentation. I’m seriously thinking about doing this in the summer.

[@deMibPottery]

You should! :-)

[@rrsegerljus7877]

Super!🎉

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks! 😃

[@ellane-d9w]

Both these pots came out great 😃

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-)

[@NikitaEvglevskii]

thank you so much! I really appreciate you sharing all your knowledge this way :) could you please name this "industrial use material' you mentioned in the end?

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Its called “murbinder” here in Denmark. Not sure what its called elseware

[@luciaribeiro6664]

Gratidão. Um conteúdo muito rico compreensível.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks ❤️🙏

[@Утихихвод]

thank you, very informative! for waterproofing you can use diluted liquid acrylic

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks :-) For my large vase I have found that the local concrete sealant I use are perfect and very cheap. But for pots for food neither that or acrylic is good. For that the liquid quartz is fantastic

[@Утихихвод]

@@deMibPottery There are acrylic dishes on sale. Acrylic may not be suitable for oven use, but may be suitable for normal cold use.

[@jamesyoungquist6923]

Beautiful technique! I dare you to mix radium into the clay to make glow in the dark ceramics :p

[@deMibPottery]

I think I leave that to you. Send pictures :-)

[@jamesyoungquist6923]

@@deMibPottery 😂💯

[@samuelgerber8699]

That's a great video! Where do you get your oil drums from? I am from Austria and I coudn't find drums that large here that don't cost a fortune. Thank you!

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. I buy them used. Many industrial materials comes in in barrels like this and often the companies that use it just need to get rid of them after. So I picked up mine very cheap (typically $10-15)

[@triciac1019]

Oh gosh, I am going to enjoy this video.

[@deMibPottery]

Thanks. Hope so :-)

[@andreakicker5995]

Hello, I‘ve seen your video where you show liquid quartz from Australia - I‘ve sent you a question about that via Instagram yesterday- may you have a look please?

[@deMibPottery]

Just replied :-)

[@kristibbradshaw]

Our Native Americans still use pit firing. It is so beautiful.

[@deMibPottery]

It is! ❤️

[@benmills949]

Maybe the definition of Pitfire is that it’s a single load/burn, rather than feeding it??

[@deMibPottery]

No, i do, as most others, feed it just like you do kn other fyre types :-)

[@benmills949]

@@deMibPotteryah ok - I thought from your other videos that you made a full load, then just let the whole lot burn down. How do you decide how long it should burn for?

[@ellane-d9w]

I Prefer the darker colour oppose to colours

[@deMibPottery]

We all have different preferences :-)