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Wheel thrown Pit Fired bottleYG
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Mmm I dont know the different terms ... but whatever you used it sure turned out nicely. The colouring effects make it seem so delicate and lovely.
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yeah I love the pitfired earhty look on stuff, not sure when we will be doing another one, hopefully soon now that fire season is over
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lol thanks, you're too kind
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you don't even know how great this would look in my living room.
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hehe i gave it away for christmas, sorry but I'm sure I will make alot more
Thanks
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BRAVO!! Amazing! How tall is this piece? The largest I managed this last semmester was a 13 inch tall cylindar I made into a giant mug.
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thanks 
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can you tell me what method you used for pitfiring?
I want to pitfire some stuff in my back yard over Christmas.
Do you need to bisque fire it first?
How deep was the pit? What fuel did you use and how long did you let it stay in the pit?
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sawdust on the bottom, some copper carbonate in the gaps between the pots, then salt randomly thrown over the lot, covered with shards of broken pots from previous pit firings, fence pailings, then a few sheets of tin. It burnt for 2 days, my wonderful teacher stoked it with some extra pailings every now and then across those couple of days
I think the trick is getting the pots hot enough ~750-950C, so that when the copper and salt fume, the pots are hot enough to take it into the clay
Here's a few of pics (not so great of the details but meh)
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hehe my teacher is the best, been doing it for years i think
Thankyou
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awwww, no fair
do you know what you used? copper salts, organic materials?
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sawdust on the bottom, some copper carbonate in the gaps between the pots, then salt randomly thrown over the lot, covered with shards of broken pots from previous pit firings, fence pailings, then a few sheets of tin. It burnt for 2 days, my wonderful teacher stoked it with some extra pailings every now and then across those couple of days
I think the trick is getting the pots hot enough, so that when the copper and salt fume, the pots are hot enough to take it into the clay
Here's a few of pics (not so great of the details but meh)
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nice, what are the pot shards for?
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they mostly served as a good insulator, a roof, and when the copper/salt fumed, helped create interesting airflow.. Because the insulate so well, and protect the pots from bits of wood, it stops alot of breakage
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ah, ok that's really interesting. I've got to keep that in mind for the next pit firing
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yeah 
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thankyou, the pit was set up by one of my teachers, he rocks
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I loved doing pottery.. but my forte was handbuilding and that was many many years ago
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I haven't done any handbuilding yet, maybe next year
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I did two years when I went to tech school.. and not just some kiddies class, we were preparing to go to uni at Monash Uni in Caulfield (Caulfield Institute of Technology it was called then) I was doomed to fail the wheelwork section tho. just couldnt center the clay, lol.. I even used to practice after school.. but just couldnt get it.. so I concerntrated on handbuilding
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