Reduction Fire

Posted on May 13, 2015

This last weekend, I had the pleasure of being a part of a reduction kiln firing at the studio. If you’re unfamiliar with what that is, it’s when the kiln uses fire, (as opposed to the heated coils of an electric kiln,) and you manipulate the atmosphere inside so that the fire burns the oxygen out and is forced to pull it out of the glazes. This creates all KINDS of wonderful effects, depending on the chemical makeup of the glaze.

Radius has a few electric kilns but a couple of years ago, they built one big gas kiln just for this purpose.

It’s big and not automated at all so firing it takes a lot of ware and a full day of checking and adjusting to make the magic happen. And magic it is! I posted the following picture on Instagram of the bowls I had going into it:

And this is what they looked like after they came out:

At the last minute, I also decided to glaze a couple of shells in one of the Shino glazes we have, and that one of the other artists, Mike Sexton, gets really beautiful results from.

Mike was the one showing us how to fire the kiln and mentoring us through the process. You’ll see a bunch of his gorgeous work when you scroll down.
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Took a few hours to load it all in and then we set it to slowly warm up overnight.

The next morning, we started the process of slowly heating it up and then checking and adjusting on the half hour for the entire day. Once we hit cone 6 and the final reduction phase, the firing was complete and she was left to cool for two days.

Things were still pretty warm when we started unbricking the door and unloading.