Post #571072 by MadDogMike on Fri, Jan 7, 2011 11:01 AM

Regan & Wendy thank you. Liz - I can make you a ceramic cake if you'll promise to eat it :P

Well, I have one more thing I can add to my list of failures - BBQ RAKU! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm not any closer to having a raku kiln than I was a year ago so I thought I would try something else. I noticed the vaporizor trays on my gas BBQ glow red, about 1300 degrees and I thought that might be enough for raku - I was wrong. I put the pieces directly on the burners and left them for about 30 minutes. Then pulled them off and put them in a covered metal can full of newpaper and dry grass. But didn't absorb nearly enough carbon and it didn't get hot enought to craze the glaze :lol:

I've got an Oxygen/Acetylene torch, maybe that will get them hot enough :D

EDIT - I fired the glaze in the kiln first to fuse it then tried the BBQ Raku method

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[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2011-01-07 12:13 ]