(Photos will arrive soon.)

We fire all glazed work in propane Olympic updraft kilns.  I (Michelle) can offer some procedural advice I guess, to fellow clay artists suffering with this challenging style of firing.  Use the "contact us" page to ask questions.  I have figured out how to get pretty reliable body reduction and glaze reduction.  I can get wonderful shino results, (my favorite glaze) as well as a buttery cream,  temmoku, kaki and a gorgeous celadon.  I do use one blue.  I also have a couple of greens that I fire intentionally in oxidation, for the obvious reason that I do not seek pink or beige-greens.  I have two sizes of kiln, a 28" with four burners and a smaller (24"?) olympic with three burners that has a pilot bar.  I do not like the pilot bar and would not choose to have one again.  I fire to cone 8 in the bottom with the top reaching a good cone 10 pretty consistently on both kilns.   I do a five or six hour glaze firing, using generally six pounds of propane.  One of my goals is to figure out how to consistently get a good high-fire copper red in this kiln.  If anyone can tell me how to do THAT, please contact me!  Currently, I put in some red pieces in most firings; occasionally one or two will actually fire to a pretty uniform red!  ~Michelle Spencer