Maiden Voyage

Friday night was the maiden voyage for the new kiln! It is an Olympic 1823whe with the Bartlett electronic controller and an Orton Ventmaster vent.. Christy and I picked it up a week or so ago and Dave from church came and wired it up for us. Having never fired a kiln at all I was a little nervous about the whole thing, but nothing went wrong and all was well. The kiln vent worked great too, as the only thing I smelled was the "new kiln" stuff that comes from the first time everything gets heated up. No sulphur fumes from the ware being bisqued. Another thing I didn't know was the the bisqued pots would be pink. The will be a buff color when glazed fired.



It was pretty cool to open a peep hole and see everything glowing orange at about 1900f degrees. Here are the photos:

This one is a shot looking at a firing cone through a peep hole.