Post #645462 by MadDogMike on Tue, Jul 24, 2012 8:15 PM

Thank you all so much for your kind comments on the gun and bowl. The gun holds only about 4-6 ounces, I'd recommend filling it with a nice sipping rum to get maximum impact :D

I had originally planned to some aluminum foil saggar firing on the outside of the bowl. Glazes fire at about 1800 degrees and the saggar firing is done at 1000. So "in theory" I could glaze the figures and the inside of the bowl with standard glaze, then saggar fire the outside while still maintaining a food safe finish inside. I had hoped to get a look like this (not mine)

Unfortunately, I made the bowl too big to fit my little kiln :lol: I have access to larger kilns but the saggar firing requires all kinds of toxic chemicals creating all kinds of toxic fumes - the sort of thing you wouldn't want to do in someone else's kiln and studio. So this will get regular glazes and I will try to saggar fire something else :)