preparing for the Moss Street market

Well, the Moss Street adjudicator said yes to windchimes, keychains, wall pockets and flat wine bottles.... but absolutely no bowls and no jewellry (they already have too much of that). So.... I'm finishing some dropring bowls anyway, just because the last full fuse firing gave me some neat disks that I want to try out. One, that had been "repaired" ended up with a giant bubble but otherwise they were hopfully usable. Pictures later. I'm also using the dropring schedule to slump a mask and to attempt a wall pocket from yard sale glass. At this low temperature it may just stand still.

Also I've learned that sand is great but not when you get up to the 1400s.... the last firing had one test and the sand definitely fused into the glass. This could be something desirable at some point.

Here's today's schedule. I've just turned the kiln on at 6:30 a.m.

...........rate /hour .......degrees.............hold
1.............747.............1000 .............20
2. .............485 .............1250...........30
3 as fast as possible....1000 ............. 15
4..............200 .............960............60 (annealing)
5..............100 .............800 ............. 05
6. .............300 ............. 280 ............. probably about 8 or 9 hours total. I guess I won't be opening it till tomorrow morning.

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