Kiln Opening, All glaze combos shared

[@SarahWaltonPottery]

Lisa, I too was inspired by Audrey’s Copper Float and picked some up! You had such a stunning kiln opening. Sorry about the pin holes..the arch nemesis of all potters! Looking forward to how you fix it…Uggh! But that platter holly green and olive float! You turned me on the OF sooo gorgeous WOW!🤯 thanks for sharing and welcome back to Canada!!

[@finklepottery704]

Thanks Sarah! So nice to be back and be playing with mud again!

[@linda.s.gislad]

Hi and thanks for another kiln opening. I LOVE the leaf dish! It's so pretty! And the lovely finger dimpled cups.

[@finklepottery704]

Thank you!

[@laura91939597]

Love the leaf dish and the kiwi wine glasses

[@finklepottery704]

My favourites from the load as well! Thanks for watching!

[@anasclayhouse]

Loved the noodle bowls Lisa and the leaf with olive float was one of my faves! I don’t have holly green but it’s on my list to get. I loved the copper float. I do a slow cool always, perhaps I get less crystals. Thanks for sharing, beautiful kiln opening!❤❤❤

[@finklepottery704]

Hi Ana, yes I am still a big slow cool fan! I think if you are layering glazes it gives you the best chance of success. You will love holly green. Such depth of color!

[@debbietuzon]

Thank you Lisa! Loved the pearl white, copper float and sea salt combo. Might try it sometime.

[@finklepottery704]

You are welcome!

[@joannpounders5567]

Love your videos and glaze combos!! I'm just a hobby potter without any professional training, so I watch a lot of pottery videos to see what tips & tricks I can learn. One tip I recently learned is that if you slow fire bisque to 04, it can help to prevent pin holing. And another coinciding tip is to slow fire on the glaze fire. So, it would seem to me that a slow cool program would fit right in with these preventive measures to prevent pin holing. Haven't tested these theories myself yet, but definitely food for thought. 🤔

[@finklepottery704]

Yes those are all great tips. I do bisque to 04, and I do a slow glaze cycle. However with my kiln it seems I still need to do a slow cool for some glazes. There are other glazes that seem not to need a slow cool. I think lots of glaze layering can affect it as well. Thanks for watching!

[@RedEftDesigns]

Nice opening Lisa! The leaf plate is beautiful and so are the copper combos! I love the bowl with the funnel handle shape that you & Julia made. It reminds me of a set my mom used to have...we would always make frenchonion soup in them where you bake the cheese on top at the end 🧀 🎉

[@finklepottery704]

Those bowls definitely have a vintage vibe. I need to tweak the scale a bit but I was pleased with them 😊

[@SonyaLeeC-c6m]

Your my hero now too. Look at those crystals. I can never get crystals with PC ancient copper. Thank you for this kiln opening! I will try this glaze!

[@finklepottery704]

Good luck!

[@threelittlepotters]

Love that leaf dish!

[@finklepottery704]

Thank you Sarah! My fav piece from the load

[@Shawnreidpottery]

The show stoppers are your noodle bowls ! Wowza !

[@finklepottery704]

Thank you Shawn!

[@AudreyLynnStudios]

HERE I AM, FINALLY! Well, THAT was entertaining!😅 You went for it. Isn't it interesting how the Pearl White / CF did better than the WW/ FLUX?! Crazy! Love your, forest themed set! So beautiful! ... and your leafy tray! ...BEAUTIFUL! Also, really like tge wine cups and your Holly Green / RB test combo. It's lovely! Thanks for sharing your Copper Float Cone 6 results, Lisa!... and thanks for the shout-out!😊

[@finklepottery704]

Thanks Audrey. Yes I was so surprised that it wasn’t the pearl white that gave me trouble. Really, the copper float was lovely and stable. It was some of the others that didn’t like the natural cool. I haven’t given up! I see another copper float firing in my future 😊

[@AniasKitchen]

Copper float seem to be very moody 😊 pinholes or no crystal! I don’t think I’m ready yet to try to make it work hehe. Lovely video, thank you so much for sharing 😘

[@finklepottery704]

Thanks for watching Ania. The copper float was actually pretty stable, my biggest problem was the Winterwood and flux. Oh the joys of pottery lol

[@janesshoeboxstudio5829]

A chefs cup, I love that!

[@finklepottery704]

Popular in our house lol. I’m lucky. My husband does most of the cooking and I keep him supplied in chefs cups 😊

[@janesshoeboxstudio5829]

@finklepottery704 😄 my hubbie is the cook and red wine drinker in our house most of the time too. I may need to make him a chefs cup 😁

[@finklepottery704]

@@janesshoeboxstudio5829 while I don’t cook I do enjoy the red wine 😂

[@janesshoeboxstudio5829]

@@finklepottery704 white wine for me, but preferably a Malibu 😁

[@finklepottery704]

@@janesshoeboxstudio5829 all good if the food is delicious and the tunes are playing

[@micheledickey4066]

I’m sorry you got so many pinholes. I have to tell you that I have my kiln in a shed and during the winter I run a space heater in there the entire time the kiln is on as well as when it’s cooling. It has helped so much!! I was having terrible problems with just about everything you can imagine when I ran the kiln in the winter so it really helped to have the heater in there. Even on the coldest of days, here in Iowa I can run the heater and it stays about 55 in the shed. Hope that helps. I absolutely love your leaf dish and the bowls with the handles!

[@finklepottery704]

Yes firing a kiln outside in cold climates is challenging. Great suggestion on the heater.

[@hobblecreekpottery]

I'm so sorry about the pinholes. I've wondered myself if firing to cone 6 with the slow cool program would work. Have you heard of a potter trying it? I have a suggestion for the white ornaments. Try 2 thin coats of pearl white. PW breaks nicely on texture and has somewhat of a shein. It will cover texture if it's applied too thick. And I agree with your theory. My kilns are in the garage, more protected than yours, but the garage isn't insulated or heated. If the outside temps drop too low in winter, I won't fire until there's a warmer day.

[@finklepottery704]

Hey Tiffanie. I think the copperfloat is like the old ancient copper. If you slow cool it you lose the crystallization. Which is weird because slow cools promote crystallization in some glazes. Oh the crazy magic of pottery. That is an excellent idea for the pearl white. I have found that now that I slow cool I am braver about firing on a cold day because the glaze has a chance to heal over at 1900 and a natural cool works fine after that even on a really cold day.

[@hobblecreekpottery]

@finklepottery704 It's really crazy, what we do. 😀

[@riabrummel808]

Beautiful ❤

[@finklepottery704]

Thank you! 😊

[@lynneyoung800]

I don’t get much chrystalisation on the bottom shelf so keep copper on the top shelves. Lovely pieces, good luck 😀

[@finklepottery704]

Thanks

[@Ellen.s.atelier]

Hi Lisa! Nice combos with power turquoise! Shame of the pinholes 😢 my last kilnopening had a lot af pinholes too! Do you put more glazes on it? And then refire? I have to find out if I can do a slow cool with my kiln, I have one more temperature after the hold so have to figure that one out❤ thank you for sharing!

[@finklepottery704]

Hi Ellen yes I was actually running a slow cool right after that so I popped them back in with just a little skim of light flux on top. 🤞If you have one more ramp available on your firing schedule you can absolutely try a slow cool. You input it the same way as the others, it’s just your target temp is lower instead of higher.

[@Ellen.s.atelier]

@@finklepottery704 I hope it will work out! I was just calculating everything! I cannot do two holds, only one! So I probably go a little bit lower then the Camille hofman temp and then hold for 30 minutes and then cool down with 125degrees! Let’s hope we both are lucky this time! I will put light flux on it also! Thanks for that, I will do what you do😃😁

[@sharonburr4876]

They’re so pretty . I’m new to this , can you explain again why you didn’t do a slow cool ? Thanks .

[@finklepottery704]

Sure. In order to get good crystallization with copper float it need a cone 6 firing with a natural cool

[@sharonburr4876]

@@finklepottery704 thanks so much I have a bowl I’m firing tomorrow with copper float on the bottom. Can’t wait to fire it :)

[@skcamerican]

The copper float is sure pretty, even if is a pain to fire.

[@finklepottery704]

It is! I haven’t given up. I’ll try another load sometimes. I learned a lot in this load !

[@PerrinPottery]

Pretty pieces, sorry about the pin holes though.

[@finklepottery704]

Thanks Sarah!

[@corryg6403]

thanks for sharing to bad about the pin holes, so far only glazes that have pin holed for me were the amaco glazes most likely shouldn't have said that

[@finklepottery704]

That’s more than fair. One of the main reasons I switched to a slow cool were the Amaco celadons. It doesn’t mean that they are bad glazes. They just like a different firing schedule.

[@corryg6403]

@@finklepottery704 I just tried Cayotes Celadon sample pack had no pin holes I have a manual kiln no changing the firing lol

[@finklepottery704]

@@corryg6403 perfect. I haven’t tried their celadons. How do you like the colors?

[@corryg6403]

@@finklepottery704 dusty rose and Aqua 1st cup I sold, 2nd cup out the door Saturday was Cayote as well. love root beer runs a bit Peacock green sedona sunset were good the other greens faded a bit blues I am not a blue fan at the best of times lol the peacock ran a bit peach blush was ok

[@denisehowse5381]

Will you be adding more water to your Power Turquoise? I just mixed a batch of Tuckers Gloss White and noticed that it was cracking before I put it in the kiln & when I unloaded it today those pieces had crawled. I’m guessing that I need to thin it out.

[@finklepottery704]

I actually did add some water to the power turquoise after I glazed the first two bowls and noticed cracking. It didn’t take much to thin it out.