Tech Tips — kiln

We’ve got you covered when it comes to writing a firing schedule! Use these schedules for 6mm firings!  FULL FUSE: 300-1100-.10 400-1225-.30 (this is a bubble squeeze, and also a strike. If using pink or purple strikers, hold for 2.00) 600-1485-.10 9999-900-1.00 100-700-0   TACK FUSE: 300-1100-.10 400-1225-.30 (this is a bubble squeeze, and also a strike. If using pink or purple strikers, hold for 2.00) 600-1350-.10 9999-900- anneal time will be based on your thickest/highest point 100-700-0

I give this tutorial to all my students when they attend class. Many tell me it has been the most helpful explanation they've ever gotten for writing firing schedules. I thought I'd share it. Hope it's helpful! Firing Schedule Tutorial for Fusing Firing schedules are made up of various segments and within those segments, three steps; Ramp: (the rate per hour at which the kiln heats or cools). Try to think of this in terms of miles per hour. If you are traveling 300 miles and are going 50 miles an hour, it will take you 6 hours to get there. If you...

I don't know about all of you, but every once in a while I will fuse a project that just doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to, and there it sits forever on my "let's wait and see what I want to do with it this" shelf...

Time to make frit balls! Here's how to do it, including a firing schedule. Read on for more...