Post #766226 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jul 14, 2016 1:04 PM

zerostreet than you so much. Dan doesn't like the word amazing because its been used so much but I have to say that the number of new and creative projects you've been doing truly amaze me!!!

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Hello Again. You've seen most of these projects come out of the kiln so now I can back up and let you see how I loaded each level.

So Many times I forget to wipe the bottom clean. This time I remembered just as I started to load the kiln.

I used a wet paper towel to remove this glaze to make a clean bottom. Sometime the glaze ends up there anyway and you have to use a dremmel to remove it.

I like to use these spikes under ever glazed piece. That way if the glaze runs it doesn't glue the mug to the shelf.

Here they are on the shelf.

These are the wedding mugs, lamps and one secret project I'm doing for JenTiki.

Here is the same shelf after firing the load.

This is the second level before firing.

The third level of necklaces.

Showing both together.

After firing.

Removing the goblet I found all the glaze on the shelf. The mug would have been ruined if it hadn't been up on spikes.

If the shelf didn't have kiln wash covering it this would have been fused to the shelf. The kiln wash allows you to pull or knock glaze off. Then you cover the spot with more kiln wash. The Frankoma Coconut goblet ran glaze down the spikes and onto the shelf. Saved again!

The spikes leave little spikes of glaze behind on pieces where they touched glaze. These must be sanded or dremmeled off. These allow me to glaze both sides of the necklaces.

Back to work, Wendy